Summarize criticisms of Piaget's perspective on childhood learning.
What will be an ideal response?
- Researchers argue that Piaget underestimated children's capabilities because of the limited nature of his mini-experiments.
- Piaget misjudged the age at which children's cognitive abilities emerge.
- Piaget's theories also were based too extensively on Western cultural standards.
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