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Discuss the extent to which Piaget underestimated the abilities of children up to 11 years.
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Discuss the extent to which Piaget underestimated the abilities of children up to 11 years. Piaget proposed the theory of Child Cognitive Development, which explains the processes and stages by which children develop knowledge and intelligence. Piaget found that intelligence was adapted as new situations were encountered, and that this was an active process. According to Piaget, each unit of intelligent behaviour is represented by a schema, which contains the information about the particular task or activity it is concerned with. An operation occurs when several schema's are used together to form a complex task such as driving a car. These schema's change to allow for new information as the child discovers more. Accommodation is the process of adapting a schema to fit with new information, assimilation is the process of interpreting and changing new information to fit with an existing schema. Using this information, Piaget was able to develop his...
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