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Jean Piaget - Coggle Diagram
Jean Piaget
Key Concepts
Schemas: mental structures
Assimilation: use existing ideas
Accommodation: change ideas
Equilibration: regain balance
Four Stages
Sensorimotor: 0–2
Preoperational: 2–7
Concrete operational: 7–11
Formal operational: 12+
Children Aged 3–6
Language and imagination
Symbolic thinking
Classification
Logic still developing
Criticism & Conclusion
May underestimate children
Small research samples
Development varies
Theory remains useful
Biography
Swiss psychologist
Born in 1896
Studied children's thinking
Main Theory
Children build knowledge
Learn through experience
Thinking changes with age
Important Ideas
Egocentrism: difficulty seeing other views
Conservation: quantity stays the same despite appearance