I hate HD!!! I hate Piaget!!! You know why.. If without Piaget's theory, then the pages I have to read will be reduced. And, it takes me hours to read it. Nonono. Should is spend me hours to write it down. I wonder when only I can finish reading HD?? I have already wasted, how many days you know?? IT'S 11 DAYS!!! Count Count Count~~~~ ONLY LEFT 4 DAYS??!!! Ohno.. My godness sick (learnt from JC one XD). By the way, I still very relaxing here. Lazy fella. That is me XD
Let I show you what I have read today. This is only one of the Piaget's Theory.
Cognitive / Intellectual Development
- Piaget's Stage of Preoperational Thinking
. This is the second stage of Piaget's theory.
. During this stage, children's use of symbolic thinking grows, mental reasoning emerges and the use of concept increases.
. At the end of Preoperational stage, the ability of operations : organized, formal and the logic mental processes that characterize school age children comes into play.
. According to Piaget, a key aspect of preoperational thought is symbolic function, the ability to use a mental symbol, a word or a subject to stand for or represent, something that is not physically present.
. For Example, Use a mental symbol for a car (the word "car") and they likewise understand that a small toy car is representative of the real thing.
~The Relationship Between Language and Thought.
. Symbolic function is at the heart of one of the major advances that occurs in the preoperational period : the increasingly sophisticated use of language.
. Piaget suggests that language and thinking are tightly interconnected and that that advances in language that occur during the preschooler years reflect several imporvements over the type of thinking that is possible during early sensorimotor period.
. For Example, Thinking embedded in sensorimotor activities is relatively slow, since it depends on actual movements of the body that are bound by human physical limitations.
. The use of symbolic thought, such as the development of an imaginary friend, allow preschoolers to represent actions symbolically, permitting much greater speed.
. Language grows out of cognitive advances, rather than the other way around. Piaget argues that improvements during the earlier sensorimotor period are necessary for language development and that continuing growth in cognitive ability during the preoperational period provide in the foundation for language ability.
~ Centration : What You See Is What You Think.
. Place a dog mask on a car, what do you get?
. According to 3/4 years old preschoolers, a dog.
. To Piaget, the root of this belief is centration, a key element, and limitation of the thinking of children in the preoperational period.
. Centration is the process of concentrating on one limited aspects of a stimulus and ignoring other aspects.
. Preschoolers are unable to consider all available information about a stimulus.
. They focus on superficial, obvious elements that are within their sight.
. These external elements come to determine preschooler's thinking, leading to inaccuracy in thought.
. For Example, Two rows of buttons given, one with 10 buttuons that are spaced together, and the other with 8 buttons spread out to form a longer row. Children who are 4/5 years old usually choose the row that looks longer althought they know quite well that 10 is more than 8 because the visual image of the longer row dominates their thinking. Rather than taking into account their understanding of quantity, they focus on appearance. To a preschooler, appearance is everything.
. Preschooler's focus on appearance might be related to another aspect of preoperational thought, the lack of conservation.
~ Conservation : Learning that Appearance are Deceiving.
~ Imcomplete Understanding of Transformations.
~ Egocentrism.
~ Soooooooo onnnnnn..
How to read??!! I only elaborate two points here but already that long. Somemore, after egocentrism still got many points. And, I only revise until half of egocentrism. NOT YET REACH 1/8 of what I have to read. SWEAT X_X
Let I show you what I have read today. This is only one of the Piaget's Theory.
Cognitive / Intellectual Development
- Piaget's Stage of Preoperational Thinking
. This is the second stage of Piaget's theory.
. During this stage, children's use of symbolic thinking grows, mental reasoning emerges and the use of concept increases.
. At the end of Preoperational stage, the ability of operations : organized, formal and the logic mental processes that characterize school age children comes into play.
. According to Piaget, a key aspect of preoperational thought is symbolic function, the ability to use a mental symbol, a word or a subject to stand for or represent, something that is not physically present.
. For Example, Use a mental symbol for a car (the word "car") and they likewise understand that a small toy car is representative of the real thing.
~The Relationship Between Language and Thought.
. Symbolic function is at the heart of one of the major advances that occurs in the preoperational period : the increasingly sophisticated use of language.
. Piaget suggests that language and thinking are tightly interconnected and that that advances in language that occur during the preschooler years reflect several imporvements over the type of thinking that is possible during early sensorimotor period.
. For Example, Thinking embedded in sensorimotor activities is relatively slow, since it depends on actual movements of the body that are bound by human physical limitations.
. The use of symbolic thought, such as the development of an imaginary friend, allow preschoolers to represent actions symbolically, permitting much greater speed.
. Language grows out of cognitive advances, rather than the other way around. Piaget argues that improvements during the earlier sensorimotor period are necessary for language development and that continuing growth in cognitive ability during the preoperational period provide in the foundation for language ability.
~ Centration : What You See Is What You Think.
. Place a dog mask on a car, what do you get?
. According to 3/4 years old preschoolers, a dog.
. To Piaget, the root of this belief is centration, a key element, and limitation of the thinking of children in the preoperational period.
. Centration is the process of concentrating on one limited aspects of a stimulus and ignoring other aspects.
. Preschoolers are unable to consider all available information about a stimulus.
. They focus on superficial, obvious elements that are within their sight.
. These external elements come to determine preschooler's thinking, leading to inaccuracy in thought.
. For Example, Two rows of buttons given, one with 10 buttuons that are spaced together, and the other with 8 buttons spread out to form a longer row. Children who are 4/5 years old usually choose the row that looks longer althought they know quite well that 10 is more than 8 because the visual image of the longer row dominates their thinking. Rather than taking into account their understanding of quantity, they focus on appearance. To a preschooler, appearance is everything.
. Preschooler's focus on appearance might be related to another aspect of preoperational thought, the lack of conservation.
~ Conservation : Learning that Appearance are Deceiving.
~ Imcomplete Understanding of Transformations.
~ Egocentrism.
~ Soooooooo onnnnnn..
How to read??!! I only elaborate two points here but already that long. Somemore, after egocentrism still got many points. And, I only revise until half of egocentrism. NOT YET REACH 1/8 of what I have to read. SWEAT X_X
1 comments:
Nine years later you're not the only one who "hates" Piaget.
I did too only my hatred is in more discerning corners of the interwebs.
Any good Asian psychologists I should know about in human development?
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