Piaget Glass Experiment. Piaget believed that children take an active role in the learning process acting much like little scientists as they perform experiments make observations and learn about the world. By the concrete operational stage roughly 7 12 years old kids comprehend ideas like weight amount and speed and can understand that.
We explain each of the four stages and explore strategies based on piaget s theory for. Captioning provided by the it department at inver hills comm. Piaget s theory centers on the idea that children as little scientists need to explore interact with and experiment in order to gain the information they need to understand their world.
His cognitive theory influenced both the fields of education and psychology.
The sensorimotor stage the preoperational stage the concrete operations stage and the stage of formal operations. In one of piaget s most famous experiments he showed that children at this stage can t comprehend that if you pour liquid from a short wide glass into a tall narrow glass it s still the same amount. By the concrete operational stage roughly 7 12 years old kids comprehend ideas like weight amount and speed and can understand that. His cognitive theory influenced both the fields of education and psychology.