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Did Piaget under estimate what children understood about the physical world?
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Sarah-Elizabeth Stanton 00031048201G Module 101 Did Piaget under estimate what children understood about the physical world? This is an essay into Piaget and how he under estimated what children understood about the physical world. It will look at studies, which illustrate the importance of context and social factors on children's cognitive development. There have been many studies in to the physical development, communication and language skills of children. Children's perception of the physical world around them, however, had been largely ignored until the late 19th century. Jean Piaget asked the question "How does a child's knowledge of the world develop? (Bee, 2000) The answers to this question played an important part in revolutionising child studies and producing the first complete and detailed analysis of cognition in children. The theory is based on a child's development of cognitive structure. Cognitive structures are mental representations or rules that aid the child with thinking, problem solving and...
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