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Piaget's Theory of Stages: Intellectual Growth and Shortcomings in Children

The Attainment of Invariants and Reversible Operations in the Development of Thinking by Jean Piaget is a research article published in the Fall 1963 issue of Social Research. The article explores the concept of invariants and reversible operations in the development of thinking.

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This article discusses Jean Piaget's Theory of Stages and how it explains intellectual growth in children. It presents two cases of children in pre-operational stage and their shortcomings. One child is unable to relate a small dollhouse to a full-size room, while the other believes that inanimate toys have human feelings. The article emphasizes that not all children are equal and teachers can work on their shortcomings by knowing their exact symptoms.

Piaget's Theory of Stages: Intellectual Growth and Shortcomings in Children

The Attainment of Invariants and Reversible Operations in the Development of Thinking by Jean Piaget is a research article published in the Fall 1963 issue of Social Research. The article explores the concept of invariants and reversible operations in the development of thinking.

   Added on 2023-06-13

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According to Jean Piaget, intellectual growth is continuous. It commences at birth and
ceases only at death. However, the abilities such as grasping, shaking, and understanding of
things might vary for different people (Eve and Kangas 2015). Two such cases shall be explained
where the kids experience issues in intellectual growth.
One of the students aged 6 years is in the pre-operational stage. I conducted an
experiment where I showed a room to the child in a small dollhouse. I asked the child to find a
toy in the room. The child was able to find the toy hidden in behind a piece of furniture in the
dollhouse quite easily. Further, I took the child into a full-size room which was an exact replica
of the dollhouse. The child was unable to relate the room to the dollhouse and did not understand
to look behind the couch to find the toy. However, the children who were slightly older than him
could immediately find the toy. I could see the child being confused. The child could not sense
or had the slightest hint on seeing the replica of the dollhouse. He got confused when I asked him
to find the piece of toy in the room. On seeing the size of the room, he got confused and terrified
about searching a small toy in a big room. Apart from this, the child is egocentric as he is lost in
his own private world. The child has not completely grabbed the social function of rules because
of which he chooses to speak less. The child is afraid that he might end up saying something
inappropriate that does not fit in the social world (Light 2017).
Further, another child who is also in his pre-operational stage is believed to be in
animism. She believes that all inanimate toys such as teddy bears have human feelings. The child
brings one of her favourite toys to the class regularly. Recently, there was an incident where her
toy fell on the ground. The child got upset and almost teary eyed as she is under an assumption
that all the things have feelings. She thought that the teddy must have gotten hurt as it fell on the
ground. I could see her rubbing teddy bear’s head and asking him if it got hurt. In her opinion,
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