assignment 5

The implications of Piaget’s theory of infant development for parents is that they are a large part of their child’s continued development. After the first couple of stages where the development is dealing with the child’s own body, the child moves on to discovering and developing in accordance to the environment around it. The more the parent interacts with the child and introduces new objects for the child to discover, the more the child learns. The same idea can be applied to the implications for teaching in relation to Piaget’s theories. The more interaction and time with an object or concept, the better it is taught and understood. Researchers are concerned over Piaget’s theories because he neglected to account for the fact that some children reach the different stages earlier than others. Through repeated stimulation, babies as young as one month can perform secondary circular reactions that Piaget didn’t believe would occur until the fourth month.