Applying Piaget's Use Of Cognitive Development In Schools

Jean Piaget is a key figure for development, focusing on cognitive constructivism – that being that we must learn from experience and development, building on knowledge that has already been developed. The strengths and weaknesses of Piaget 's cognitive development theory will be discussed.

Piaget’s Cognitive Developmental Theory states that children go through four stages of cognitive development as they actively construct their understanding of the world. Stage one of this theory, or the sensorimotor stage, infants of the age newborn through two years construct an understanding of the world by sensory skills (hearing and seeing) with physical actions. This for example could be a simple game of peak-a-boo. Skye, the infant in the video clip, giggles at his mother playing the game. According to Piaget’s theory, young infants do not know what happens when object go out of sight. During the first year, infants learn that objects have life of their own, even when not visible. This is known as object permanence. Mya knew to look

According to Piaget (1929, 1954, 1963), the process of adaptation helps us to understand how a child constructs his/her world. Taking Piaget's theory of Cognitive Development with particular focus on the Sensori-Motor stage of development, I am going to discuss how understanding this stage might influence me when working with a baby as a nursing student in the future.

The child I observed for the project was my five year old cousin. The activity I observed her doing is playing dress up. She likes to dress up as batgirl, wear capes, and dress up as Elsa from Frozen because they both have brown hair. This is a prime example Piaget’s preoperational state of cognitive development. This stage is described as when a child uses symbolic thinking, use of proper syntax and grammar to express full concepts. When she comes to our house she also enjoys riding her bike, coloring, playing games, and playing at the park. My mom helps her make homemade play doe; this allows her to learn how to make things. The combinations of those activities are good for intellectual, emotional, and physical growth.

Piaget’s reception of numerous inquiries regarding accelerated cognitive development from American interviewers can be attributed to the values of American culture. This culture has progressively developed a social hierarchy that idolizes the American Dream, an abstraction that distributes reward equally on the measure of an individual’s capacity for achievement as well as any ensuing accomplishments. Consequently, this idea emboldens parents to seek new ways to improve their children’s prospects at a more successful life. One rumination of improving the aforementioned traits for a fulfilling life is by accelerating the child’s cognitive development from a young age. With an early realization of cognitive development, the child may possess

Adolescence (12-18 years of age) stage in human development is the period between puberty to legal adulthood. During this transitional stage physical, emotional, intellectual, social and psychological changes occur. This essay will discuss about some transition on socio-cultural and cognitive aspects as well as two normative and a non-normative events occurring during this stage. Erikson’s theory of social development and Piaget’s theory of cognitive development has been used in this essay to discuss the transitional aspects of the adolescence. This essay further discusses about self identity and self esteem and their impact and various aspects contributing to the nursing standards for practice.

After doing this exercise, I was surprised that I scored the same for behavior, attachment, and ecological; cognitive was my highest scoring. Piaget’s cognitive theory of development is probably one of the theories that I am most familiar with, so it came as no surprise that this was my highest scoring. I have always believed that development is one of the most influential factors in child development. There are four stages that children progress through in this theory: sensorimotor (0-2 years), preoperational (2-7 years), concrete operational (7-11 years), and formal operations (11+ years). Every child goes through these stages. For example, in sensorimotor babies learn to grasp object. I thought I would have scored higher in behavior because

Piaget believed that there is an “inborn plan for cognitive development but it is dependent on the child’s environment” (Boyd & Bee, 2012, p.138). “Piaget’s most central assumption was that the child is an active participant in the development of knowledge, constructing his own understanding” (Boyd & Bee, 2012, p.156). The two environmental factors that Piaget believed were crucial were social transmission and experience. Social transmission is the information that the child gets from other people. Experience, in Piaget’s perspective, means “the child’s own opportunities to act on the world and to observe the results of those actions.”

Group A streptococcus (GAS) is a bacterium which causes an atypical phagocyte apoptosis and is characterised by strong inflammatory responses (Tsatsaronis, Walker & Sanderson-Smith, 2014). It can trigger infections such as streptococcal pharyngitis, a condition which causes the infected individual to experience a sore throat and muscle pain. Left untreated, it can lead to other conditions such as acute rheumatic fever (ARF), an in severe cases rheumatic heart disease (RHD) (Burke & Chang, 2014).

During this stage the child starts to use symbolism so the development of language is very fast during this period, but they can not see other points of view, it is all from their own perception. Piaget believed that the child in this stage was not capable of logical thought (Lee and Gupta).

There currently exists a great deal of literature based on child developmental psychology from a variety of great psychologists, notably Freud, Erikson, Bowlby, Bandura, Vygotsky, and many others. However, this paper will focus on the theories of Jean Piaget.

Jean Piaget is best known for his theory of cognitive development. Piaget set out on an exploration to understand the developmental process on how children think and process information. Through the exploration Piaget discovered that the overall cognitive process within an individual develops through a combination of maturation of the brain and environmental experiences (Robbins, Chatterjee & Canda, 2011). Along the way Piaget coined key concepts to explain the theory. Some of the key concepts within the theory include schema, the adaptation processes, and the four stages of development.

For this assignment, I will be researching Piaget’s stages of cognitive development. Swiss biologist Jean Piaget theorized that children’s cognitive processes develop in series consisting of four stages which are, sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational.

Jean Piaget (1896 - 1980) was the first psychologist to make a systematic study of cognitive development, he was an employee at the Binet Institute for the Development of French versions of the questions on intelligence tests, and he became interested because of the provision of the kids for the wrong answers to questions that require logical thinking.

Development, whether in language or in cognition determines the level of homeostasis a person is able to reach, no matter the theory from which we draw our knowledge. Growth and development are effected by culture, social experiences, modeling and language.