Children of similar ages, he noticed, tended to make the same mistakes.
Children, Piaget showed, aren’t just more error-prone than adults – they reason in entirely different ways.
pond snails can teach us about intelligence;
squirrel a dog;
develop through four stages of cognitive growth.
newer was research into the nature of intelligence
What is intelligence?
Intelligence is action.
didn’t appear to be accessing objective reality and copying information from it – they were actively constructing knowledge.
Children who performed his cognitive tests didn’t appear to be accessing objective reality and copying information from it – they were actively constructing knowledge.
poke, prod, and pull at everything around them. Later on, children perform mental actions that have the same purpose: they rotate objects, put things in order, and compare different
These actions, he came to believe, define intelligence.
objective truth, a child can only arrive at this knowledge by actively reconstructing it for herself.
she can separate them again, and end up back where she started.
Intelligence, Piaget concluded, consists of these exploratory actions.
How do pond snails react if you pluck them out of the calm waters they favor and drop them into fast-flowing mountain streams?
the snails develop tougher, rounder shells. In a word, both adapt.
Adaptation governs all interactions between organisms and their environments.
When we eat something, our digestive system reacts to this sudden intrusion of foreign matter into the body by releasing acids and triggering abdominal muscles to contract.
When we eat an apple, our stomachs transform a part of the environment – the mass of fibre and vitamins we call apples – into a substance compatible
When we eat an apple, our stomachs transform a part of the environment – the mass of fibre and vitamins we call apples – into a substance compatible with human life: energy.
a plan or blueprint – are organized units of knowledge about the world or how to behave in it.
Imagine a child encountering a thorn for the first time.
Children of similar ages, he noticed, tended to make the same mistakes.
Children, Piaget showed, aren’t just more error-prone than adults – they reason in entirely different ways.
pond snails can teach us about intelligence;
squirrel a dog;
develop through four stages of cognitive growth.
newer was research into the nature of intelligence
What is intelligence?
Intelligence is action.
didn’t appear to be accessing objective reality and copying information from it – they were actively constructing knowledge.
Children who performed his cognitive tests didn’t appear to be accessing objective reality and copying information from it – they were actively constructing knowledge.
poke, prod, and pull at everything around them. Later on, children perform mental actions that have the same purpose: they rotate objects, put things in order, and compare different
These actions, he came to believe, define intelligence.
objective truth, a child can only arrive at this knowledge by actively reconstructing it for herself.
she can separate them again, and end up back where she started.
Intelligence, Piaget concluded, consists of these exploratory actions.
How do pond snails react if you pluck them out of the calm waters they favor and drop them into fast-flowing mountain streams?
the snails develop tougher, rounder shells. In a word, both adapt.
Adaptation governs all interactions between organisms and their environments.
When we eat something, our digestive system reacts to this sudden intrusion of foreign matter into the body by releasing acids and triggering abdominal muscles to contract.
When we eat an apple, our stomachs transform a part of the environment – the mass of fibre and vitamins we call apples – into a substance compatible
When we eat an apple, our stomachs transform a part of the environment – the mass of fibre and vitamins we call apples – into a substance compatible with human life: energy.
a plan or blueprint – are organized units of knowledge about the world or how to behave in it.
Imagine a child encountering a thorn for the first time.
Children of similar ages, he noticed, tended to make the same mistakes.
Children, Piaget showed, aren’t just more error-prone than adults – they reason in entirely different ways.
pond snails can teach us about intelligence;
squirrel a dog;
develop through four stages of cognitive growth.
newer was research into the nature of intelligence
What is intelligence?
Intelligence is action.
didn’t appear to be accessing objective reality and copying information from it – they were actively constructing knowledge.
Children who performed his cognitive tests didn’t appear to be accessing objective reality and copying information from it – they were actively constructing knowledge.
poke, prod, and pull at everything around them. Later on, children perform mental actions that have the same purpose: they rotate objects, put things in order, and compare different
These actions, he came to believe, define intelligence.
objective truth, a child can only arrive at this knowledge by actively reconstructing it for herself.
she can separate them again, and end up back where she started.
Intelligence, Piaget concluded, consists of these exploratory actions.
How do pond snails react if you pluck them out of the calm waters they favor and drop them into fast-flowing mountain streams?
the snails develop tougher, rounder shells. In a word, both adapt.
Adaptation governs all interactions between organisms and their environments.
When we eat something, our digestive system reacts to this sudden intrusion of foreign matter into the body by releasing acids and triggering abdominal muscles to contract.
When we eat an apple, our stomachs transform a part of the environment – the mass of fibre and vitamins we call apples – into a substance compatible
When we eat an apple, our stomachs transform a part of the environment – the mass of fibre and vitamins we call apples – into a substance compatible with human life: energy.
a plan or blueprint – are organized units of knowledge about the world or how to behave in it.
Imagine a child encountering a thorn for the first time.
