a) Physics
b) Physiology
c) Biology
d) Chemistry
Psychology helps to understand
a) nature
b) biology
c) intellect
d) philosophy
Epistemology is a part of
a) philosophy
b) psychology
c) biology
d) knowledge
Empiricists claim that
a) people learn through experience
b) people “write” their experience on slates
c) the origin of knowledge is in the brain
d) knowledge is internalized by reason
Rationalists assume that
a) sensory experience is not important
b) sensory experience enables us to learn the truth
c) sensory experience is less powerful than reason
d) empiricists are absolutely wrong
Piaget believed that
a) empiricists were right
b) rationalists were right
c) both empiricists and rationalists were right
d) both empiricists and rationalists were wrong
According to Piaget,
a) physical and logico-mathematical knowledge have the same source
b) the source of physical knowledge is in the child
c) the source of logico-mathematical knowledge is in the objects
d) the source of physical knowledge is mainly in objects
4. Ответьте на вопросы:
1. What is this text about?
2. What does Piaget`s theory help us to understand?
3. What is epistemology?
4. What is the difference between empiricists and rationalists?
5. How does the child get physical knowledge?
6. If the child compares two objects and considers their difference and their sameness what kind of knowledge does he construct?
7. What actions are the most important in creating logico-mathematical knowledge?
8. Why is it important for a teacher to select and structure the information that a person can get from reality?
5. Подтвердите правильность предложений или исправьте ошибочные утверждения, используя следующие выражения согласия/несогласия:
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