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Question

Assertion (A): Jean Piaget viewed children as discovering or constructing, virtually all knowledge about their world through their own activity.
Reason (R): Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development is described as a nativist approach to cognitive development.

The correct answer is

(A) is correct but (R) is not correct

Piaget indeed viewed children as active constructors of their own knowledge (A is correct). However, his theory is described as constructivist, not nativist, so R is incorrect. Option C is correct.

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Important Questions from Concept of Development

  1. Which of the following be defined as a progressive series of orderly, coherent changes leading towards the goal of maturity?

  2. ____________ occurs when there is orderly and progressive changes in a human being due to maturation and experience.

  3. Development occurs in human being

  4. Which of the following is the characteristic of the stage of later childhood?

  5. According to which principle - the development in a child is directional from Head to toe ?

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