Piaget's three memory types: recognition, reconstruction, and evocation¶

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Description¶

Zaichkowsky's paper presents Piaget's developmental distinction among memory types: 'Piaget uses hts rearth to demonstrate the developmental difference between threetypes of memory, which he callsrecognition, reconstruction and evocation.' Recognition relies on perception and sensorimotor schemes and appears in infancy; evocation requires mental imagery or language and emerges around 1.5-2 years; reconstruction is intermediate, resembling imitation. Piaget also divides memory into figurative and operational components.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Evocative memory depends on mental imagery or language, which develops only after the sensorimotor period

Constraints¶

• The distinction is reported second-hand from Piaget's research and is tied to his developmental stage framework

Target Learners¶

• children from infancy through the concrete operational period

Target Learning Objectives¶

• memory for motor tasks and serial configurations

Claims¶

Related Theories¶

• Piaget's stages as an ordinal hierarchy of schemes for coping with the environment
• Piaget's stage theory of cognitive development: four fixed, hierarchical stages from sensori-motor to formal operations

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Key Sources¶

• Winnick, Joseph P., and Ronald W. French, eds. (1975). Piaget for Regular and Special Physical Educators and Recreators. State University College, Brockport. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED117874