Current research on Piaget’s stages suggests that _____

Current research on Piaget’s stages suggests that _____

a. the ages he assigned for different abilities were completely accurate.

b. he correctly identified the role of culture in cognitive development.

c. he underestimated children s abilities and the timing of their development.

d. the sequence of the skills he described in children was completely inaccurate.

Answer: c. he underestimated children s abilities and the timing of their development.

Modern studies that examined the Piaget’s cognitive development theory indicate that his estimations regarding the intelligence and the timing of children’s development were too low. Although Piaget’s studies offer a specific blueprint of how cognition emerges during childhood, subsequent studies have revealed that children learn cognitive structures sooner than Piaget proposed.

Piaget stated that young children were not able to think as highly as they do and instead current authors have said that young children’s cognitive skills are much higher than Piaget suggested. For instance, children exhibit heightened object permanence (the feature that is characterized by an understanding that objects go on existing when not seen) compared to what stage theory proposed by Piaget.

Furthermore, the age associated with each of the milestones outlined by Piaget has been a subject of adjustment in light of more recent studies. However, most of the cognitive skills proffered for stage development are thought to develop before the ages stipulated by Piaget in his stage theory.