Question

What approach builds on Piaget's research and views cognition as made up of different types of individual skills, while using terminology from information-processing approaches?

(A) neo-Piagetian
(B) information processing
(C) social-cognitive learning theory
(D) cognitive perspective

Answer 1

A) Neo-Piagetian is the correct answer.

Step-by-step explanation:

Neo Piagetians has criticized Piaget's theories and updated them for current research purposes, they can be called new interpretations of Piaget's theory. Piaget's theory was reviewed by Morra, Gobbo, Marini, and Sheese. The first theories were presented in the 1970s and believed in constructive development and that cognitive development can be separated into stages having qualitatively different characteristics. The new theories also advocated that a child's thinking becomes more complex in advanced stages. They believed that instead of logic the complexity of information processing in children change at each stage.

Answer 2

(A) neo-Piagetian

Step-by-step explanation:

The Neo Piagetian theory is a criticism of the theory of cognitive development proposed by Jean Piaget. The first argument of the Neo Piatetians was that the theory of Piaget does not provide any explanation and reason about the development in each stage. Also, Piaget's theory does not take into account the exceptional children. The children who develop faster as compared to the other are not considered in Piaget's theory.