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Essay / Exploring the stages of Piagetian cognitive development
My student is 16 years old, this placed him in the formal and concrete stage of Piagetian theory. The stage indicates that you have completely general thinking and propositional thinking. You have the capacity to cope with the hypothetical development of strong idealism. . (Lefrançois, 2006 page 255). Through my experiments, I was able to see my student's idealism when I asked him to create his own experiment based on the answer he gave me. I asked him to prove how girls are more aggressive than boys, and I asked my student to prove how some teenage girls like video games. He was able to reconstruct his own experience from mine. I could see the genetic epistemology as he answered the question, the reference to his knowledge growing as he tried to answer. His social interaction skills were very high, as his responses were very well thought out and his ideas were displayed. His ideas on how to prove his answer all included other people. For example, he said he was going to separate schools into all boys and all girls and see what happened. This experience involved people. I have gained an understanding of maturation after my experiences since how my student thinks and learns from