Jean Piaget
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With reference to Child Development and Pedagogy, consider the following statements regarding Jean Piaget's stages of cognitive development and the factors influencing cognitive development:
- 1. According to Piaget, in the 'Concrete Operational Stage' (approximately 7 to 11 years), a child fully develops the capacities of 'Decentration', 'Conservation', and 'Classification', enabling them to understand objects by considering multiple aspects rather than just a single property.
- 2. In Piaget's theory, during the 'Formal Operational Stage' (approximately 11 years and above), adolescents develop the capacity for 'Hypothetico-deductive Reasoning' and 'Abstract Thinking', allowing them to draw logical conclusions without direct observation.
- 3. Piaget firmly believed that children's cognitive development is primarily achieved through continuous 'Social Interaction' and the exchange of 'Cultural Tools' with adults and teachers, with maturation playing no role.
Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct?
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Statement 1 is correct because according to Jean Piaget, important cognitive attributes such as decentration, conservation, and classification develop within children during the concrete operational stage (7 to 11 years). Statement 2 is also correct because adolescents acquire higher mental capacities for abstract thinking, hypothesis formation, and hypothetico-deductive reasoning during the formal operational stage (above 11 years). However, statement 3 is incorrect because the theory of development through social interaction and cultural tools was propounded by Lev Vygotsky, not Jean Piaget. Piaget considered biological maturation and active exploration with the environment as the main basis for cognitive development.
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