Essays on Jean Piaget

Cognitive development is the growth and materialization of the ability of a child to be actively involved in thinking and reason independently. It also involves the emergence of the child’s ability to comprehend the events in the surrounding environment (John, 2008). It focuses on the ability to process information, learn a new language, problem solving ability, the process of mental development and the perception the child has towards the world. The study of the process of cognitive thinking has a myriad of applications in the engineering of education systems. Appreciating how a child’s brain works helps curriculum Continue reading...

Introduction

Psychology is a vast field. There are many laws, principles, and theories that govern the train of thoughts of psychologists and mental health professionals working in the field. Basically, psychology is a branch of science that is concerned with the academic and applied discipline of studying behaviors and mental functions of animals, which in this case, would be humans. Psychology is not only concerned with studying the behaviors and mental functions of an individual because it may also aim to study the behaviors and mental functions of a group or population. The objective of this paper is to discuss Continue reading...

Introduction

Every child’s development process is unique and complex. Even though children normally develop through predictable levels and milestones, they may at times not proceed through these steps at the same pace. Usually, a child’s development process is largely influenced by his or her environmental factors and the experiences that they gather from it. Understanding the child development is vital because it allows us to appreciate the emotional, social, physical, cognitive and educational progress of the child at a particular level of their growth into adulthood. Various theories attempt to describe every aspect of child development and largely Continue reading...

Abstract

It was Jean Piaget who first suggested that children learn by schema, or “a cohesive, repeatable action sequence possessing component actions that are tightly interconnected and governed by a core meaning' (Piaget.org, 2014). All human learning, according to Piaget, can be defined by these intellectual building blocks, or schema. Tantrums are behaviors that are learned by children, and as a result have to be governed by schema if Piaget’s theory on learning can be considered correct. The development of intentional or goal-setting behavior is correlated with the development of tantrum behavior in toddlers.
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Background of the Study

A useful lesson to illustrate a major pedagogical theory in education involves a close reading lesson given in the ninth grade English class. Many high schools English teachers report that their students lack the skill of reading a passage, whether fiction or non-fiction, and successfully draw inferences and figurative meanings or even critically analyze the readings. These figurative meanings are crucial to understanding the rhetorical argument of the piece, making this a vital skill. Furthermore, writing is also as complex a learning activity as reading that fosters the act of critically arranging the words to make perfect Continue reading...

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This is a very wide research problem. An infant named MB was reviewed. The infant was two months of age and was in the stages of infancy. MB spent the majority of her time resting. In the time that MB was awake, there were several experiments that has d been conducted in order to examine her reflexes. MB demonstrated consistent signs of reflex activity with the exceptions of the tonic neck and stepping reflex. MB did not have the capacity of holding her head upright and did not demonstrate any signs of motor development initiations. MB’s Continue reading...

PART ONE: MY NIECE’S COGNITIVE GROWTH ON THE ACCOUNT OF PIAGET’S THEORY

Kate Rodgers was born December 31, 2000 to Bernard Rodgers and Nelly Rodgers in Beverley Hills. Kate’s parents described her as a jovial and playful infant. She was very active that she began playing the piano at the age of three. She was always the center of focus because of her activeness, maybe she was in the experimental stage that Piaget describes in his theory.
The first stage, sensorimotor, takes center stage from birth to between eighteen and twenty-four months. In this stage, infants can only recognize what is in their immediate environment, particularly things immediately in front Continue reading...

Jean Piaget believed that the individual develops concepts about the world and modifies the environments to his needs. His cognitive theory considered development as a sequential process and learning as a minor, but integral part of development of an individual.
Piaget’s theory has been influential in designing curriculum for the schools in America. This was because he emphasized the importance of active involvement of learners in the learning process. He believed that concepts can’t be taught verbally and the learning process of concepts can’t be accelerated, without the students’ proper cognitive development. The idea that children Continue reading...

Introduction

Cognitive theory can be described as a multifaceted and complex proposition. According to this theory, human development is the result of an interlinking connection with their rearing background, environment, and individual thoughts and experiences. Jean Piaget is renowned as a great psychological theorist who propounded a well-accepted cognitive development theory.

Piaget’s Cognitive Theory of Development - Stages

Piaget proposed that there are four factors that play a major role in a child’s cognitive development. These four factors are maturation of DNA (genetic material), knowledge and awareness of the physical environment, recognition of the social atmosphere, and equilibration. Piaget’s cognitive theory also talks about four Continue reading...

There had been numerous cognitive development theories as much as there are theories pertaining to intelligence. This is done in an attempt to understand the complexity of how people learn across their lifespan. While many people might be unaware of how intricate the process of learning occurs without their conscious effort, it significantly affects everyone’s life. Despite the absence of formal education, people still manage to learn by virtue of the definition appropriated for learning by scholars, academicians and cognitive psychologists. For the purpose of understanding and uniformity, I searched for a standard definition of learning available through Continue reading...

Constructivism is used in many disciplines and caution is necessary in using the term constructivism especially in the field of education. However, even in the limited area of education, constructivism has different meanings. Constructivism described the learning and teaching, and the curricula and assessment, respectively. In addition, it is used in the epistemological or philosophical meaning that described different things. In the historical view, it demonstrated the development of constructivism, its origin and current conditions. Particularly, it emphasized in the field of science and mathematics education and it influenced a larger scheme.
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“Effective Pre K and Kindergarten teachers understand children’s cognitive development and promote cognitive skills.” In Jean Piaget’s theory of development, that stage that deals with pre-k and kindergarten is called the “Sensorimotor Stage.” This stage lasts from birth until two years of age. As a baby, children do not understand about the world. For example, when something is out of a child’s sight they assume it no longer exists. It takes a while for children to realize things and people have a life outside of the child’s vision. Also during this stage a child’s Continue reading...

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Moral Psychology is a relatively new branch of Psychology that studies moral identity development. A moral act is considered as behavior that has either a moral or immoral consequence (Teper, Inzlicht, & Page-Gould, 2011). A moral act is any act that requires purity, free will, honesty, liberty, and meaning while an immoral act is smeared with corruption and fraudulence of any sort. It is believed; moral act leads to positive consequences and immoral to negative consequences. Many major topics included in this vast field are moral character, moral judgment, moral development, moral reasoning, moral responsibility, moral action, altruism, moral luck, Continue reading...

Introduction

Human beings go through a cognitive development process in their lifetime. Cognition is the “activity of knowing and the processes through which knowledge is acquired and problems are solved” (Sigelman and Rider, 2012, p.210). There are different ways by which scientists explain the cognitive development processes. Jean Piaget and Lev Vgotsky are two leading theorists in the field of cognitive development. Their concepts and models are discussed in this essay, and the similarities and differences of their theories are highlighted in the following section.

Do social and environmental variables affect cognitive development?

A child’s cognitive development is influenced by both social and environmental variables. Jean Piaget’ Continue reading...

Piaget’s stages of children cognitive development is a foundation based on constructionist theories and therefore in the process of development of such artifacts, according to Piaget, the following stages are involved; sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational and formal operational. Age group is averaged and it depends on the environmental and environmental factors that a child is exposed to through his or her development.
According to Piaget, a six year child is in the preoperational stage and must have passed through the sensorimotor stage. At this stage, children memory develop and they can differentiate issues that are happening, use language Continue reading...

Introduction

Apart from the disagreements that exist between psychologists as regards to the nature that intelligence takes, psychologists always debate on various aspects that influence the intelligence of a person. As such, this debate always takes one direction in coming up with the arguments. The psychologists always argue on which aspect between the ‘nature’ and ‘nurture’ has a bigger impact on a person’s intelligence. Although the psychologists agree that all the two aspects above contribute to the intelligence of an individual, they always differ when they try to discuss on how much these aspects contribute. This is a field Continue reading...

A) Considering each stage of Piaget’s theory of Cognitive Development, how might a child approach the game of Monopoly at each stage? Considering the level of development, what could they do and what could they not do? What would their behavior look like? Piaget was a social psychologist who separated the cognitive development of a child’s development into four markedly different stages based on the cognitive capacity growth of a child. Looking at his stages and the game of Monopoly we can approximate more of less how a childe at each given stage would play that game, Continue reading...

It is true that he development of a human being comes in stages, from the moment a baby is born and produces the first cry, the moment it tries to open its mouth and very many other developmental milestones that come before it becomes an adult. Piaget brings this whole process to focus and it turns out to be an insight of what should be expected at each and every stage. Considering this and what my classmate wrote I do also believe that the sensorimotor stage is very important in the development of a child but disagree that that Continue reading...

This paper seeks to compare between the learning theories of Jean Piaget and Gagne with a view to determining their various contribution to nursing education and research.
Jean Piaget propounded a cognitive perspective which was described as the basis of the constructivist theory. He developed a model of development of the child and also about child development. His theory centered on the fact that depending on the level of development of the child, the child creates cognitive structures or mental maps that allow them to comprehend their environment. If new information is presented to the child, the child determines Continue reading...

Longitudinal design can be used to test cognitive development in the Piagets theory. Longitudinal study involves somewhat similar to measures that are repeated in a study. In this case, variables are observed and the observations are recorded from time to time over a specific period of time Tryphon and Jacques, p.100). Longitudinal design can be used to study trends with regard to development across the life span in the same way development has been analysed in human development theory.
Longitudinal design can be used in Piaget theory that addresses issues with regard to human development. Piaget’s theory has Continue reading...

Psychology

Introduction
Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget (1896-1980) is a famous scientist, his works have made ​​an important step in development of psychology. Piaget’s concept takes a significant place among the widespread psychological theories of learning and cognition. It highlights not only the wealth of experimental data and original ideas, but the latitude of theoretical system and its detailed elaboration.
According to Langer and Killen, Piaget concurred in the search for general laws of developmental processes and structures. Author claims that Piaget formulated one of the evolutionary new theories of the origin, development and transformation of mentation (Langer & Killen, 2010, Continue reading...

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Introduction

The study of child development concerns several elements that enable a child to become less dependent on his parents and guardians as time progresses. Experts consider the process of growing up first in holding various discussions on child development. Several theories on child development attempt to explain several possible factors that influence a child to advance towards full autonomy. Without disputing one another, child development theories help provide insights to experts on explaining certain issues related to the development of a child, including elucidations on developmental shortcomings that carry on towards adulthood.
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Over the past thirty years, Higher Education in the United States has experienced a sequence of remarkable changes. Higher Education in the United States is facing key challenges because participation amongst non-traditional students has been widened by a rapid increase in numbers of students and student pressures. Today, educators, policy makers, and state legislators all share a much greater interest in finding ways to improve the reasoning of students. Moreover, they also share a great interest in making sure that our future generation makes informed decisions in their communities, personal lives, and in their workplace. The purpose of this Continue reading...

Jean Piaget (1896-1980) and Erik Erickson (1902-1994) were developmental psychologists who developed influential theories that have been used to understand children’s development through the life stages. Piaget used his biological background to develop a theory based on children’s biology and their adaptation to the environment (Feist & Feist 2009). Erickson used psychoanalysis to create an ego theory which was based on the earlier works of Sigmund Freud.

Both theories are similar in that they propose that individuals pass through fixed stages of development which occur at a specific age. In Piaget’s theory, there are 4 stages from Continue reading...

Piaget’s Theory

The Piaget theory also referred as the development stage theory was the first cognitive theory. This theory was developed by Jean Piaget in 1920. The theory argues effectively learn when they do it at their own pace and capabilities. The theory also argues that children are self motivated and do not require help or rewards from adults to continue learning.

In referring to Cole (2005) the Piaget’s theory argues the child undergoes development in four major stages. The first stage is called the Sensorimotor Stage (birth and 2 years). Piaget believes that the child learns from the environment Continue reading...

Jean Piaget and Herbert Mead both came up with theories on child development. They are secondary agents of socialization in America today because their theories have played a big role in the way parents bring up their children in addition to coming up with educational content for children at various stages of development. The focal arguments in the theories are different with Piaget laying emphasis on the stages of cognition while Herbert Mead focused on the development of self awareness. The theorists ultimately agree that the socialization of a child becomes more developed as the child becomes less egocentric Continue reading...

When studying the theories of childhood, there are many different beliefs and opinions available, many different interpretations, and many varying points of view. How does one decide what is right and what is not so? How can one determine which is fact and what is false? How can one decide which theorist is the one which makes the most sense? Is one theorist necessarily right, or perhaps is a combination of two or more different theories perhaps more to one’s liking or beliefs? It really can be quite confusing and has proven to be so for many people Continue reading...

Children’s Mental Development

Jean Piaget’s book talks about children’s cognitive development right from a very tender age. It offers great insight into how they perceive and analyze things. It becomes very clear from the book that children have a different way of thinking and understanding things compared to adults. According to Piaget, children at birth have a basic mental structure (1969). It is upon this structure that subsequent learning and acquisition of knowledge are based. This nullifies the previously held assumption that children are just less experienced and incompetent thinkers in comparison with adults.

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Referring to Pellegrini and Hou (2011) Joshua and Joey are exhibiting normal play behavior. This is mainly because the article supports with evidence that children often use objects when playing. This according to the authors is referred to as noninstrumental play whereby children pretend with objects during play. In addition to this noninstrumental play will involve children using exaggerated sounds or movements while playing games. Both Joey and Joshua exhibit noninstrumental play since they use square blocks and pipe cleaners as bombs to kill the ‘Zombies’ They Continue reading...

Introduction

The ways in which children develop cognitively have fascinated philosophers, researchers and theorists for centuries. However, in the twentieth century, several different schools of thought arose, each of which attempted to categorize the various phases of cognitive development between infancy and adolescence. Piaget, in his early observations, asserted that children, even at a very early age, were capable of creating their own ideas. Instead of merely receiving and assimilating information from adult figures, they could take the stimuli they received and build unique structures of knowledge. His work ended up as the foundation of the modern constructionist theories Continue reading...

Summary: Piaget’s, Vygotsky’s, Erikson’s Theories of Social Development

Introduction
McLeod (2007) observes that a number of learning theories have been advanced to describe the nature social development, key among them being postulated by Erikson, Piaget and Vygotsky. According to him, the foundations laid by these theoretical approaches to human development have been used in various sectors for purposes of conceptualizing and formulating general as well as particular universal patterns that help to improve our understanding of certain phenomena. Such occurrences are characterized by learning, intelligence development, and social interactions. As a result, a number of suggestions have been proposed based on their findings with the aim of Continue reading...

Q1 Attachment Theories of Different Theorists

Bowlby described attachment from a psychoanalytic point of view where he proposed that attachment was instinctive. Hence, children from the time they were born they had the tendency to form a bond with one main care giver, usually the mother. The attachment happens in the first two years of a child’s life and it is reciprocal, where the mother also develops the attachment. If there is no attachment by age three, Bowlby posited that it would be difficult for it to happen. Secure attachment was also essential for future development of mental, social, and emotional development of a Continue reading...

When asked to draw the water level in a glass tipped at a 45-degree angle, young children typically draw the water level as parallel to the top and bottom of the glass, rather than parallel to the true horizontal. What are the possible implications?

Children often transfer the experiences they have to their production when drawing or representing items. For the most part, when a child looks at a glass, the level of the liquid is parallel to the top and bottom of the glass, and so that memory is what children will use when drawing that glass, even Continue reading...

Background information on Piaget

Piaget was a renowned scholar in the field of psychology, especially in the area of development among the children. His work and ideas on cognitive development has exhibited significant impacts in the fields of child psychology, education and in a wide array of different fields. (Mussen, 1983).

Born in 1896, the Swiss Biologist cum botanist developed an interest with nature at the tender age of seven. His interests and thereafter achievements in psychology and botany were inspired by his mother who was said to be energetic and intelligent and somewhat overanxious. At age ten, he was already putting his Continue reading...

Jean Piaget’s theory

The theory of cognitive development is very critical in understanding the behavior of human beings both psychologically and physiologically. Cognitive psychologists view development as consisting of reorganization and acquisition of cognitive structures through which human being process and store information (Ellery, 1925).
Piaget asserts that there are various stages in the development of an individual. Children in these stages often have different physical, emotional, social, and psychological differences. In the case of a twelve year old, who weighs 180lbs and is 5’1 tall, his behaviors will differ with that of a grown Continue reading...

Abstract

Human development is an area that has been one of the most discussed areas of study in the last one century. Cognitive development of a person from childhood days to adult years was studied extensively by a Swedish psychologist Jean Piaget. He is known as the father of cognitive development theories. His four stages of cognitive development, sensori-motor, pre-operational, concrete, and formal, are still considered to be the foundation of the cognitive development process. Piaget’s theory does not touch upon why individuals develop at a different rate or why there are different developmental stages. Vygotsky, on the other Continue reading...

Developmental theories are attempts by psychologists to understand how humans develop from childhood through adolescence to adulthood. Most of the theories were advanced after extensive studies were conducted on the human development cycle. This was a clear contrast from what used to happen before these theories were advanced; children were considered as smaller adults and their development was never of great concern (Crain, 2010). Continue reading...

BACKGROUND

This experiment attempts to explain Piaget’s theory of cognitive development through contesting his method .It is significant that we first comprehend Piaget’s cognitive development theory.

Piaget’s approach to child development gives a totally different explanation of child development. For instance Piaget’s believe that development is a structural, systematic process. According to him, it is not only the amount of knowledge that differentiates the young child from the older intellectual or cognitive development; it becomes more capable of carrying out actions upon its environment as the child’s intellect develops which ensures its survival.
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Introduction

Understanding your child is one of the most important things that one should learn as a parent. It is extremely important in becoming effective in the nurturing of the child while growing up. With time, parents understand that every child has a unique trait that stays with them throughout the life. Study of these traits of the children, right from prenatal development through the adolescence is called child psychology. It deals with not just the physical growth of the children, but also their mental, social and emotional development. Over the recent times, child psychology has developed scientifically to encompass “ Continue reading...

Introduction

With interest in the field of child development emerging in the early twentieth century, many theories have been formed in an effort to understand the physical, educational, social, emotional, and cognitive growth that children undergo from birth into early adulthood (Cherry, 2013). In particular, developmental theories are organized systems of “principles and explanations of certain aspects of child development” (Swim, 2008).
In this regard, this paper discuses three of the major developmental theories, namely the behavioral theory, the cognitive theory, and the sociocultural theory.

Summaries of three Major Developmental Theories

Behavioral Theory
The behavioral theory focuses on the behavior of people, which can be observed ( Continue reading...