Piaget's Influence On Child Development

According to Piaget's work it is esstionl that this teacher ask these quesions because children's thought process is continually changing. His basic tendencies in thinking is divided into two groups organization and adaptation. He states that people are born with a tendency to organize their thinking process into psychological structures. These psychological structures are our systems for understanding and interacting with the world. By asking these types of questions she is helping the students organize their thought process so that they are able to justify their answers. In addition he split development into different catergories. The students in this video are in the concrete-operational stage. This stage is described as hands on and is
split up into identity, compensation, reversibility and classification. With complete mastery of identity the students know that if nothing is added or taken away the material remains the same. With an understanding of compensation the student knows that an apparent change in one direction can be compensated for by a change in another direction. With an understating of reversibility the students can mentally canclce out the changes that has been made. Another important operation mastered at this stage is classifation. Classification depends on a student ablitity to focus on a single characteristic. Thus it is esstional that the teacher ask why their wasn't any water on the paper towel after it was put into the water. It aligns with this stage and helps the students grasp a new understanding that they might have never had before.