Piaget’s Work and Criticism: What the Research Really Shows

Piaget’s Work and Criticism: Separating the Real Weaknesses From the Myths Piaget’s work is criticized for underestimating infants’ abilities, relying on small unrepresentative samples, and treating cognitive stages as more fixed than they are. Some criticisms hold up well; others — including the claim that Piaget simply got object permanence “wrong” — are contested by … Read more