Comparing Piaget's 'How Children Think And Learn' Alfrey

‘A discovery so simple that only a genius could have thought of it’ – Einstein, Albert regarding Piaget’s theory. (Pound, 2005)
Within chapter 3 of the book ‘How Children Think and Learn’ Alfrey (2003) discuses multiple theorists and their accompanied theories. The theorist which I will be discussing in this task is Piaget, Piaget in my opinion is one of the most famous theorists when it comes to child development. Further into the book Alfrey (2003) goes onto say ‘His work can be thought as providing a stepping stone: a developmental timetable that gives approximate dates to cognitive achievement’ (Claire & Durell, 2003)
Piaget noticed while marking IQ tests, that children seemed to get the same questions wrong on numerous occasions, this

‘Piaget considered the concrete stage a major turning point in the child's cognitive development’ (McLeod, 2010). At this stage children should have developed logic, this means they are able to categorise and classify their experiences with ease. This gives them a greater understanding of what is happening in the environment around them. They usually apply this acquired logic to aspects that they ae able to see, for example, while taking part in an activity. An early year’s professional carried out an experiment where she presented a younger child, who had not yet entered this stage, with two rows of coins. Both rows had the same amount of coins, spaced equally, the child was asked whether there was the same amount of coins in both rows or whether there was more in one than the other. The child said they are equal. The practitioner then spaced one of the rows out; repeating the question, the child was unable to apply logic to the task and said that one row contained more coins than the other, this was wrong. A child that was at the concrete operational stage was asked the same questions, by applying the logic they had gained they and answered