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Cognitive Development
In Children
The Beginning
• Piaget was interested in • Piaget’s theory is based on the
the study of knowledge in idea that the developing child
children. builds cognitive structures
• He administered Binet’s (schemes used to understand
IQ test in Paris and and respond to physical
observed that children’s environment).
answers were • He believed the child’s
qualitatively different. cognitive structure increased
with development
(Brainerd,1978).
Genetic Epistemology
• Epistemology is the • Piaget wanted to know
study of knowledge how children learned
• Definition of Genetic through their
Epistemology development in the
– Study of study of knowledge.
developmental • He was considered a
changes in the structuralist
process of knowing – Structuralism: the
and in the organization
relationship between the
of knowledge.
parts and the whole
Methodology
• Clinical
– Interviews
– Interaction with the child
• Behavioral Observations
– Watched kids in their
natural environment.
– Put down what represented
his idea, so he was biased
Characteristics of Piaget’s Stages