Essays on Jean Piaget

1. Yes. Performance of students is predominantly affected by the level of education, level of income of parents and professionalism. Supplying students with required learning materials and attending good schools solves only one part of the equation. The fact is there is a correlation between the qualities of the environment at home and success at school. The nature and nurture of cognitive development are greatly influenced equally by the home environment as well as the school environment. The home environment like the diet and availability of other basic needs play a big role on how the child develops and Continue reading...

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...

The cognitive development theory looks at development as a series of progressive changes in which a person uses their own intellect to continuously progress through stages. The nature of these stages is that each of them is more complex than the other. Piaget and Vygotsky were very influential in the psychology field in relation to the cognitive development theory. This paper describes the importance of their theories of cognitive development and outlines their influence on the current teaching methods.
Vygotsky and Piaget are regarded as constructivists. This was directed to the learners in the current schools that they need Continue reading...

The human development stages include psychosocial, systemic, psychodynamic, existential/gestalt and cognitive stages. Development occurs throughout a lifespan of a human being. Development of any human being begins at the earliest stage which is the prenatal stage and it goes on to after a child is born to adulthood.
Psychosocial stage is best presented by Erik Erikson’s theory (Cherry, 2014). It best explains how personalities are acquired through a series of stages by describing how a person’s social experiences impact his/her lifespan. Ego identity development is one of the key elements of Erikson’s theory of psychosocial stage. Continue reading...

Toys and games are a major contribution in the development of children. Many popular varieties of toys and games provide children with an impetus during their free time. This is in tandem with the belief of Piaget and Vigotsky who attest that play can improve a child’s behavior as well as an aid in developing sophistication about relationships.
Haugen (2008) says that children play games as a form of leisure activity to enable them relax their mind. This provides them with an important learning experience that is important in their development. Toys and games enable social interaction when Continue reading...

Moral development over an individual’s lifespan remains a major topic of interest for psychologists. There are many theories that have been developed over time but one of the most well-known was developed by Lawrence Kohlberg. Kohlberg expanded the work of Jean Piaget and modified it to explain moral reasoning and how it develops. While Piaget described a process of moral development that occurred in only two stages, Kohlberg’s theory grew to include six stages within three different levels. Kohlberg proposed three these six stages and three levels that moral reasoning was a process that continued through an 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...

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Online learning is reshaping the entire area of study as it is removing all traditional boundaries on knowledge and making it increasingly accessible by all. In early 2014, MIT, one of the most reputed academic institutions in the world today, started providing free online course materials, accessible by the public. Online education has transformed the communication between teachers and students, enabled those in need to seek help at any time and from anywhere. Yet the open and enhanced accessibility does not mean that each student perceives and responses to the same matter in the same way. Subjectivity, Continue reading...

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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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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...

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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...

Question 1: Egocentric speech

Both Piaget and Vygotsky have different approaches towards defining what egocentric speech is. According to Piaget, children are not born social or with the ability to relate well with others. When they are born, children entirely focus on themselves; their thoughts and desires. It is because of self-centered purposes that children talk to themselves. Children are not fully-developed, hence the do not have the thoughts of talking to others. The fact that they cannot communicate with their peers means they can only talk to themselves. This approach differs from the Vygotsky's (Goswami, 2008).
Vygotsky’s approach is based on 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...

Piaget’s theory tries to explain the development process in human beings and how the environment humans are exposed to during early childhood development affects human intelligence. However, his work is motivated and pioneered by a Swiss psychologist who came up with the theory. The theory tries to explain how the early childhood experiences and environment plays a virtue role in the development of human intelligence. In this theory, there is an emphasis on the role childhood experiences play in enhancing reasoning, good memory and perception. The theory was later known as the developmental stage due to the emphasis Continue reading...

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...

Child X is a nine years old African American. She is female and has three other siblings. She has an elder brother aged thirteen, another brother aged eleven, and her little sister aged six. The parents of child X are in their early forties. Her father is forty-one while her mother is forty years old. They live in a two bedroomed house in East of Chicago and sleep in shared rooms. Her father is a self-established mechanic, and her mother is a florist who works in a small shop in town. She does not own the place, but works Continue reading...

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Adult learning principles vary dramatically from pedagogic principles. The motivation for an adult to learn differs dramatically from that of a child. These differences were first highlighted by Malcolm Knowles who is also known as the father of adult learning. Adults’ learning motivation comes from an immediacy need directly linked to their everyday roles. An adult learner primarily looks at relevance in learning to improve on-job performance and behavior. The classic paradigm of pedagogic learning – learning by rote is not applicable in the case of adults. The predominant difference between and adult and 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...

Lesson plan using ABC Reading Eggs website to improve foreign language

Reading and writing are advanced language skills. Writing is based on the ability to read. Reading involves two stages: identification of letters and reading words and sentences. Reading does not stop at making a person literate; reading is essential for academics and scholarship. Developing reading skills at an early age is important and difficult. Researchers and educationists constantly strive to find out new ways for making the reading lessons effective, fruitful, and meaningful.
Different languages in the world follow different writing systems. English follows the alphabetical writing system. The letters are placed one after another, some representing consonant sounds Continue reading...

Interactional Cognitive Theories of Mental Development

Interactional Cognitive Theories of Mental Development
The interactional theories play a significant role in terms of causing mental growth and development amongst the students. The teachers have to lead the students into the realm of the educational exploration so that they can increase the existing body of knowledge. The teachers have to do their job effectively in order to create a successful nation into the future. The neuroscientist, Jean Piaget argueed that humans go through four distant stages of learning and adapting during the early childhood. The featured genius established that first stage of development included processing of sensory Continue reading...

How the teachers’ professional skills relate to the NAEYC standards for Early Childhood Professional Preparation

- Promoting Child Development and Learning
According to Piaget, child development and learning involves understanding how children’s mind work and develop towards the understanding of their world. As a result, teachers apply their professional skills such as creation of environments that are supportive, respectful, healthy and challenging for each learner to promote children growth and development. In addition, teachers use their skills to understand children needs and characteristics.
- Building Family and Community Relationships
- Observing, Documenting, and assessing to support young children and community
Under this standard, apply their skill with a backing from the Piaget’s Continue reading...

Growth and development are two dynamic processes that occur in the course of a human’s life. The two terms are often used interchangeably even though they denote different things. Growth is usually a process that takes place during the first twenty years of one’s life while development is a continuous process that takes place throughout one’s life (Beckett and Taylor, 2010). In trying to explain various aspects of growth and development in human life, psychologists have formulated various theories. Some of these theories have been proven and authenticated by research while some are still undergoing research Continue reading...

In recent years, there has been a growing recognition of the complexity in which organizations operate, including an expansion to global environments that intrinsically establish moral challenges for the members of their organizations (George, 2007; Donaldson, 2003). There are several reasons for this complexity, as the actions of individuals are receiving more scrutiny, there are more widespread requests for transparency, there is a greater need for organizations to operate across legal and governmental systems that are in competition, as well as to operate across divergent cultures that often use different sets of morals and values.
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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...

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This guidebook provides the aspiring librarians with educational information regarding the developmental milestones of children, from their birth to age 12. This guidebook highlights the human growth and developmental patterns, learning styles, developmental domains, and different developmental milestones achieved by children through different stages of their growth. This guidebook will be useful for the librarians to develop an understanding of the young clients and accordingly, arrange library programs for them.

Introduction

A survey of recent literature shows that libraries play a crucial role in the learning process of students, especially those segments of the population, who are in need of 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.
In education, constructivism is a theory of Continue reading...

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I plan to teach students of grade three about ways and methods they can use to take care of their teeth. Teeth are a vital organ of the body. Healthy teeth are prerequisite for a healthy body. Defective teeth result in malnutrition of the body. Shiny and perfect denture reflects healthy soul residing in a healthy body. The students will be taught the correct method of brushing and flossing of the teeth. The students will be enabled to understand the importance of having healthy dentures.
Reason of choosing grade 3- Grade 3 child belongs to age group Continue reading...

Online Learning

Introduction
Online learning is defined as the use of web to access learning materials; to interact with the content, online tutor, and other fellow learners; and to obtain the necessary support during the learning process; in order to gain knowledge, to construct personal meaning and grow with the learning experience .
Personality is a set of important characteristics which determine how people interact with others . The five essential components of personality include physical, social, intellectual, value system and emotional . Hans Eysenck developed a model made up of three personality traits - 1) Introversion/Extraversion which involves directing attention towards inner experiences Continue reading...

The developmental expectations of a male child, approximate age 3. 5 years old were observed on a mild summer day in the toddler play area of an outside shopping mall. It being mid morning, the play yard was occupied by four to nine children at various times during the one hour observation. The child under observation displayed motor and social developmental milestones appropriate to expected benchmarks and was supervised by an attentive mother, and accompanied by a younger sibling. The play area is in an upscale, suburban shopping mall and consists of a series of low, rounded nature-themed climbing Continue reading...

“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...

In the Child's Mind: Language Acquisition and Mastery

Besides birth itself, there is no other event in a child's life that is more significant or elicits the excitement of proud parents more so than the utterance of his first words. Whether those words are "mama", "daddy" or "baba" is significant in itself, but the remainder of childhood will be spent adding to, and honing early language skills during the voyage through adulthood. Language acquisition and its mastery entail a vast array of cognitive processes -- ones that continually shape and re-shape the human brain until death.
While language acquisition as a part of cognitive development still largely Continue reading...

Ericson’s theory of psychosocial development

Erik Ericson has proposed the theory of psychosocial development which details the outcome of social experiences in the life of human beings. He further maintained that human beings underwent eight stages. According to him the fourth stage of psychosocial development has to do with middle childhood and when the child starts understanding the meaning of pride especially in their capabilities and achievements (An & Cooney, 2006). The current case study deals with Logan, a child in middle childhood having a terminally ill sister. The child is in constant conflict because he is not able to share his thoughts or even 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...

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Man is a social being. His behaviour and actions have an impact on the society in which he lives. The behaviour of an individual should thus be in coherence with the accepted norms of the society. Every individual behaves in a particular manner based on his mental development and his perception of the environment in which he lives. Accordingly, the cognitive development of every individual is unique. This cognition in turn influences his various skills that govern his interaction with the society. Psychology plays a pivotal role in determining how a person thinks, behaves and what triggers Continue reading...

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Back Ground; 2
Lietarure Review; 3
Purpose of Study 6
Refined Research question; 6
Finalized data sources; 7
Refined Hypothesis & Variables 7
Operational Definition of Key Variable / Concept; 7
Hypothesis 1; 8
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Data Analysis Technoque; 8
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A study of the impact of parent's occupational engagement on child care and development
Back Ground;
The presented methodology aims to develop a research-based study on the impact of full time occupational engagements of parents outside the home on the characteristics of their children. An evaluation of the importance of childhood care cannot be underestimated because Continue reading...

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This paper aims, to develop a research-based study on the impact of full time occupational engagements of parents outside the home, on the development of their children. The importance of childhood care cannot be underestimated because of its immense impact on the development an individual. Researchers consider childhood care as the most important aspect for the development of optimistic attitude and constructive skills in an individual .
The brain of a young child is almost one quarter of the size of an adult, and the development of brain is restricted to the function of stimulation, resulted from retrieved information 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...