雅思阅读真题（Part 3）
皮亚杰：儿童思维发展研究
本篇也叫：皮亚杰、让·皮亚杰、儿童认知发展、儿童心理学 皮亚杰、皮亚杰 认知发展理论、皮亚杰 儿童思维
Part 3 · 考频：高频 · 最近考试：2024.10.19
本篇为雅思阅读真题（Part 3）《Jean Piaget 1896 - 1980》，共 14 题，2024.10.19雅思考试真题回忆，页面提供完整原文、题目、答案与解析，并支持在线机考模式免费练习。本页同时提供 Markdown 版本 供 AI 助手与搜索引擎直接读取。
文章介绍瑞士心理学家让·皮亚杰的儿童思维研究：他通过长期观察和与儿童对话，发现孩子的思维方式和成人不同，有其自身逻辑；他提出儿童是主动建构知识的“小科学家”，其理论奠定了现代教育改革的基础，影响深远。
A
Seymour Papert looks at the work of the pioneering Swiss philosopher and psychologist Jean Piaget spent much of his professional life listening to children, watching children and poring over reports of researchers around the world who were doing the same. He found, to put it most succinctly, that children don't think like grown-ups. After thousands of interactions with young people often barely old enough to talk, Piaget began to suspect that behind their cute and seemingly irrational utterances were thought processes that had their own kind of order and their own special logic. Einstein called it a discovery 'so simple that only a genius could have thought of it.'
B
Although not an educational reformer, Piaget championed a way of thinking about children that provided the foundation for today's education-reform movements. It was a shift comparable to the way modern anthropology displaced stories of primitive tribes being 'noble savages' and 'cannibals'. One might say that Piaget was the first to take children's thinking seriously.
C
He has been revered by generations of teachers inspired by the belief that children are not empty vessels to be filled with knowledge (as traditional pedagogical theory had it) but active builders of knowledge-little scientists who are constantly creating and testing their own hypotheses about the world. And though he may not be as famous as Sigmund Freud or even B F Skinner, his influence on psychology may be longer lasting.
D
In 1920, while doing research in a child-psychology laboratory in Paris, Piaget noticed that children of the same age made similar errors on intelligence tests. Fascinated by their reasoning processes, he began to suspect that the key to human knowledge might be discovered by observing how the child's mind develops. On his return to Switzerland he began watching children play, scrupulously recording their words and actions as their minds raced to find reasons for why things are the way they are. In one of his most famous experiments, Piaget asked children, 'What makes the wind?'. A typical dialogue would be:
Piaget: What makes the wind?
Julia: The trees.
Piaget: How do you know?
Julia: I saw them waving their arms.
Piaget: How does that make the wind?
Julia: (waving her hand in front of his face): Like this. Only they are bigger. And there are lots of trees.
E
Piaget recognized that five-year-old Julia's beliefs, while not correct by any adult criterion, are not 'incorrect' either. They are entirely sensible and coherent within the framework of the child's way of knowing. Classifying them as 'true' or 'false' misses the point and shows a lack of respect for the child. What Piaget was after was a theory that the wind dialogue demonstrates coherence, ingenuity and the practice of a kind of explanatory principle (in this case by referring to body actions) that stands young children in very good stead when they don't know enough or don't have enough skill to handle the kind of explanation that grown-ups prefer.
F
Piaget was not an educator and never laid down rules about how to intervene in such situations. But his work strongly suggests that the automatic reaction of putting the child right may well be counter-productive. If their theories are always greeted by 'Nice try, but this is how it really is...', they might give up after a while on making theories. As Piaget put it, 'children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them something too quickly, we keep them from inventing it themselves.'
G
Disciples of Piaget have a tolerance for-indeed a fascination with-children's primitive laws of physics: that things disappear when they are out of sight; that the moon and the sun follow you around; that big things float and small things sink. Einstein was intrigued by Piaget's findings, especially by the idea that seven-year-olds insist that going faster can take more time-perhaps because this, like Einstein's own theories of relativity, runs so contrary to common sense.
H
Although every teacher in training still memorises Piaget's successive stages of childhood development, the greater part of Piaget's work is less well known, perhaps because schools of education regard it as 'too deep' for teachers. Piaget never thought of himself as a child psychologist. His real interest was epistemology-the theory of knowledge-which, like physics, was considered a branch of philosophy until Piaget came along and made it a science.
I
Through epistemology, Piaget explored multiple ways of knowing. He acknowledged them and examined them non-judgementally, yet with a philosopher's analytic rigour. Since Piaget, the territory has been widely colonised by those who write about women's ways of knowing, Afrocentric ways of knowing, even the computer's ways of knowing. Indeed, artificial intelligence and the information-processing model of the mind owe more to Piaget than its proponents may realise.
J
The core of Piaget is his belief that looking carefully at how knowledge develops in children will elucidate the nature of knowledge in general. Whether this has in fact led to deeper understanding remains, like everything about Piaget, controversial. In the past decade, Piaget has been vigorously challenged by the current fashion of viewing knowledge as an intrinsic property of the brain. Ingenious experiments have demonstrated that newborn infants already have some of the knowledge that Piaget believed children constructed. But for those, like me, who still see Piaget as the giant in the field of cognitive theory, the difference between what the baby brings and what the adult has is so immense that the new discoveries do not significantly reduce the gap, but only increase the mystery.
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答案：how Piaget's work represents a crucial turning-point in our approach to education.
原文定位：Although not an educational reformer, Piaget championed a way of thinking about children that provided the foundation for today's education-reform movements. It was a shift comparable to the way modern anthropology displaced stories of primitive tribes
同义替换：「Piaget's work represents」↔「Piaget championed a way of thinking」，「crucial turning-point in our approach to education」↔「provided the foundation for today's education-reform movements」
答案：The factual accuracy of what children say is of minor significance.
原文定位：Piaget recognized that five-year-old Julia's beliefs, while not correct by any adult criterion, are not 'incorrect' either. They are entirely sensible and coherent within the framework of the child's way of knowing. Classifying them as 'true' or 'false' misses the point
同义替换：「minor significance」↔「misses the point」，「the factual accuracy」↔「Classifying them as true or false」
答案：maintaining children's confidence in their ability to interpret the world.
原文定位：If their theories are always greeted by;Nice try, but this is how it really is;they might give up after a while on making theories;children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves
同义替换：「interpret the world」↔「making theories」
答案：Even apparently irrational ideas can be worthy of interest.
原文定位：Disciples of Piaget have a tolerance for-indeed a fascination with-children's primitive laws of physics
同义替换：「apparently irrational ideas」↔「children's primitive laws of physics」，「can be worthy of interest」↔「fascination with」
答案：outline Piaget's contribution to a range of scientific fields.
原文定位：provided the foundation for today's education-reform movements;his influence on psychology may be longer lasting;made epistemology a science;artificial intelligence and the information-processing model of the mind owe more to Piaget;core of Piaget is his belief about the nature of knowledge
答案：logical
原文定位：Piaget began to suspect that behind their cute and seemingly irrational utterances were thought processes that had their own kind of order and their own special logic
同义替换：「mental」↔「thought」
答案：theories
原文定位：children are not empty vessels to be filled with knowledge;but active builders of knowledge;little scientists who are constantly creating and testing their own hypotheses about the world
同义替换：「tries out his or her own」↔「creating and testing their own」，「theories」↔「hypotheses」
答案：psychology
原文定位：though he may not be as famous as Sigmund Freud or even B F Skinner, his influence on psychology may be longer lasting
同义替换：「impact」↔「influence」，「could well outlast」↔「longer lasting」
答案：brain
原文定位：viewing knowledge as an intrinsic property of the brain
同义替换：「associating knowledge exclusively with」↔「knowledge as an intrinsic property of」
答案：teachers
原文定位：He has been revered by generations of teachers;Although every teacher in training still memorises Piaget's successive stages
同义替换：「professional development」↔「teacher in training」，「widely used in」↔「revered by generations of teachers」
答案：NOT GIVEN
原文定位：In 1920, while doing research in a child-psychology laboratory in Paris, Piaget noticed that children of the same age made similar errors on intelligence tests
答案：NO
原文定位：Piaget was not an educator and never laid down rules about how to intervene in such situations
同义替换：「gave clear guidelines」↔「laid down rules」，「how adults should give information to children」↔「how to intervene in such situations」
答案：YES
原文定位：His real interest was epistemology-the theory of knowledge-which, like physics, was considered a branch of philosophy until Piaget came along and made it a science
同义替换：「made a significant contribution」↔「made it a science」
答案：YES
原文定位：the difference between what the baby brings and what the adult has is so immense that the new discoveries do not significantly reduce the gap, but only increase the mystery
同义替换：「still have much to learn」↔「increase the mystery」