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Describe variant and invariant structures according to Piaget

      

Describe variant and invariant structures according to Piaget

  

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Monica
The first schemas are for reflexes. From reflexes, children develop a thinking process gradually as they grow. The first mode of thinking is concerned with the babies' senses and with learning to control their movements for the first few years. For the first few years, thinking is mainly about the baby's own needs and it is quite illogical but improves with years. By around the age of seven children start thinking about their actions and consequences for other people. According to Piaget, the thinking development of cognition is sequential and fixated and all children will go through the same order. He described the sequence as invariant.

Although stages of invariant development individuals have different experiences and will learn the same things differently. Accordingly, each individual’s cognition is a result of countless ideas as a result of different experiences which leads to variant cognitive development. Some experiences are stimulating leading to the fast development of children’s cognitive.
Piaget observed that there are two types of variant mental structures. These are called schemas and operations. Schemas are mental representations of what things are and how we deal with them. They are acquired from different environments that we interact with. Operations are the mental structure that allows us to combine schemas in an orderly sensible and logical manner development.
Chatelaine answered the question on June 16, 2021 at 11:36


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