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Comentarios y aportaciones nuevas a: jopriet@ * An Evaluation of Piagets Theory Piagets contributions Founded the field of cognitive development Convinced us that children are curious, active explorers of their environment First to try to explain and not just describe the process of development Challenges to Piaget Piaget failed to distinguish competence from performance. Still a hotly debated topic: Does cognitive development really occur in stages? Does Piaget explain cognitive development? His explanations raise more questions than they answer. Piaget devoted too little attention to social and cultural influences. * * Object permanence. Develops in Substage 4 of the sensorimotor stage (Siegler, p. 34) roughly 8-12 months * Skill acquired during the concrete operational period, roughly 6/7 to 11/12 years. What allows the child to get this right is that he/she understands reversible operations. (object properties are conserved over certain types of transformations, Siegler, p. 45). * Connection to Freud noted by Piaget: Assimilation is the “pleasure principle,” the id Accommodation is the “reality principle,” the superego * Imitative schemas: accommodation is dominant Ludic schemas (play): assimilation is dominant Adaptive schemas: the most advanced, equilibrium Chapter 5 of Play, dreams documents the development from sensorimotor schemas to symbolic schemas, through a child’s active interaction, applying prior schemas to the environment (through either assimilation or accommodation). * * * * We think of Piaget primarily as a developmental psychologist. BUT Piaget only USED children to accomplish a more profound philosophical goal. * Behaviorism: Learning is associationist, continuous, linear Kant: Concepts without percepts are empty; percepts without concepts are blind. The contrast with associationism is that once a child has successfully constructed a fundamental schema—such as number, equivalence, or conservation—the child’s thought is fundamental