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 2. Note formPiaget ran experiments about children’s cognitive development.Piaget emphasised stage-related progress.Some people criticised the way that Piaget conducted his experiments – something about the wording and the difficulty.Some people had a different cognitive approach – something about a more gradual development.What I need to find out and where:What Piaget’s experiments were called and what they involved (I have some lecture notes on this).What his evidence looked like (the textbook covers this).Who raised what specific objections concerning the wording and difficulty of his tasks – and what was their evidence (the textbook covers this).Who suggested that instead of stages children developed more gradually – and what was their evidence (the lecture notes give names and the textbook provides more detail on this).

Note: Identifying where you can find the information is super-important. Without this you will stop because you do not have the information you need to continue, or you will look perhaps half-heartedly for sources – secretly pleased that you have an excuse to stop thinking so hard about your essay. Alternatively, you might quickly check the web, just in case, and then… ‘50 things to do with a water melon – I’ll just check that first’.