Human Growth and Development / Unit 1 HGD 0030 short lesson, about 20 seconds
How Piaget Studied Children
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The idea
Jean Piaget, a Swiss biologist who helped write early intelligence tests, studied children's wrong answers as a window on how they reason.
In practice
A child's confident wrong answer revealing a consistent logic, typical of that age.
Where people slip
He pioneered the clinical interview and treated the child as an active participant who builds understanding, not a passive learner.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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