Human Growth and Development / Unit 5 HGD 0629 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Order Fixed, Pace Varies
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The idea
Substantial evidence confirms that the order of Piaget's stages is fixed, while progress through them can be accelerated or delayed by experience.
In practice
Children in two cultures reaching conservation at different ages, but both after preoperational thought.
Where people slip
On the exam, a stage theorist expects children everywhere to pass through the same stages in the same order.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
Unlocks
- Nothing yet depends on this.
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