Name: Shane Marvin Wolf (202106929)7
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ACTIVITY 1
Understanding learner
development: Piaget
Week 1
Question 1:
✓ In the scenario we are introduced to Sydney who has been exposed to a fish
and stored within his Schema. When he enters the Aquarium, he is exposed
to a fish which has a different colour but is familiar to him because it had fins
and lived under water which was what had been registered into his schema
before. In this point he can easily associate with what he sees as it fits into his
previous schema and equilibrium is easily reached. This process is known as
Assimilation.
✓ But when he looks on the other tank he is exposed to different thing, which
also lives under water. He is then perplexed whether it is also a fish, but he
cannot identify it as a fish as it had no fins. At this stage, cognitive conflict
occurs which causes a disequilibrium. Then his teacher comes in to explain
that what he sees is a Crab. He then processes this new information and
creates a space in his schema to differentiate the fish from the crab, and now
understands that a crab has legs, not fins but also lives under water. At this
point Accommodation process took place as new information has been
registered into his schema for equilibrium to be reached.
✓ As he now moves to another tank and sees another creature that has legs
and lives under water, he can now identify the animal as a crab and not a fish.
This shows that there has been cognitive development and that equilibration
has taken its course.
Question 2:
2.1
➢ From the scenario we are told that the place which is based is in a creche and
we are aware that children in creches have an age range of 0-2 years of
which falls under the sensorimotor stage.
➢ Piaget’s theory states that children think with their eyes, ears, and hands.
From this view then we can see and argue that the toddle at the creche is in
sensorimotor stage. Firstly, she gets excited from bashing the toy down, this
