Piaget 's Theory Of Cognitive Development Theory

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.

Jean Piaget was a swiss psychologist born August 9, 1896. Piaget is known mostly for his work in developmental psychology during the 20th century. While working in Paris, Piaget became increasingly interested in how children thought. Piaget noticed that young children answered questions differently than older children, not due to a lack of knowledge, but because younger children had a different way of thinking and did not have as many experiences as an older child.

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In the present century, there is a disagreement between scholars and educators as to the importance of developmental psychology and its application in the mainstream classrooms. It is common notion in the educational realm that children undergo the process of learning to think and thinking to learn. Piaget’s theory of cognitive development has played a vital role in defining the concept and practice of education. Piaget’s theory lays much focus on the concept of developmentally appropriate education (Karpov, 2006). In other words, the practice of education should be in an environment that offers a suitable curriculum, learning materials and instructions that are responsive to the unique physical, cognitive, social and emotional needs of the learners as outlined by the edTPA assessment handbook (2013). Furthermore, the Piagetian theory defines many models of curriculum and instructions and has been instrumental in the constructivist approaches to learning. On that note, this research paper will provide insights into the application and implication of Piaget’s theory of cognitive development on education and pedagogy. Also, the paper will provide real life educational experiences to illustrate the application of the Piagetian theory of cognitive development.

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.

According to Piaget, schema is the basic building block of intelligent behavior. Schema is used to understand and respond to situations and it’s a person’s way of

Throughout history, many brilliant minds have made impactful contributions in Psychology which have shaped our understandings of the human mind and our behaviors. Jean Piaget was by no means an exception. Piaget was a clinical psychologist known for his pioneering work in child development. He was the first psychologist to make a systematic study of cognitive development. Over the course of his later career in child psychology, he identified four stages of mental development that took into account young people 's development from basic object identification to highly abstract thought. This paper will focus on Piaget’s life history and personality, as well as his theory on the cognitive developmental stages, its purpose, and its applications during his lifetime and now.

Jean Piaget 's hypothesis of cognitive development proposes that kids move through four unique phases of mental development. His hypothesis centers around understanding how children acquire knowledge, as well as on understanding the nature of intelligence. As children interact with their general surroundings, they constantly include new learning, expand upon existing knowledge, and adapt already held plans to oblige new information. To better understand the things that occur during the cognitive development, it is vital first to look at a couple of the vital thoughts and ideas

Jean Piaget was a great mind and contributed copious amount of knowledge and expertise to psychology as a whole, changing the world using children as a primary focus. He founded a study referred to as genetic epistemology, which consisted of his theory of cognitive development and epistemologist view. He believed that children were the future and focused extensively on understand their cognitive development, which he was able to able to the education system. He once said, “Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual.” (Piaget, Munari, 2000) and he stood by that claim until the end. Piaget is known all over the world and he work is still used in many fields including psychology, sociology, education, epistemology, economics and law.

At the age of 21, Jean Piaget earned a PhD from the University of Neuchatel with an interest in human organisms and the mechanisms that created scientific bodies of knowledge (Good, Mellon, Kromhout, 1978, p. 688). He began to study child development and through observation of his children and other children, he began to form a theory that focuses on the mental structures created to help children adapt to the world. Piaget felt that in order to help children adapt they use schemas. These schemas were used by children to understand and organize different knowledge and distinguish one thing, or group of things from another. After collecting this knowledge Piaget felt that children processed it in two different ways. The first was through

Jean Piaget was a cognitive theorist who was born in Switzerland in the late 1800’s. He began his life with a concentration in the natural sciences, particularly the subject of mollusks, and later developed an interest in cognitive theory (“Jean Piaget Biography,” n.d.). His subsequent research and findings greatly influenced the field of developmental psychology, particularly childhood cognitive development theory. According to Saul McLeod, an instructor at the University of Manchester, prior to Piaget’s work “the common assumption in psychology was that children are merely less competent thinkers than adults. Piaget showed that young children think in strikingly different ways compared to adults” (McLeod, 2009). Instead, Piaget suggested

Jean Piaget is considered to be very influential in the field of developmental psychology. Piaget had many influences in his life which ultimately led him to create the Theory of Cognitive Development. His theory has multiple stages and components. The research done in the early 1900’s is still used today in many schools and homes. People from various cultures use his theory when it comes to child development. Although there are criticisms and alternatives to his theory, it is still largely used today around the world.

For this paper I will be exploring Piaget's theory of cognitive development. Swiss Psychologist Jean Piaget, theorized that children progress through four key stages of cognitive development that change their understanding of the world. By observing his own children, Piaget came up with four different stages of intellectual development that included: the sensorimotor stage, which starts from birth to age two; the preoperational stage, starts from age two to about age seven; the concrete operational stage, starts from age seven to eleven; and final stage, the formal operational stage, which begins in adolescence and continues into adulthood. In this paper I will only be focusing on the

In all in this paper I briefly explained Piaget’s Cognitive Theory of development. I explored the four different stages of development that describe how individuals way of thinking changes over time. This theory, along with many others not discussed in this paper, play an important role in the field of child development. All of the different theoretical perspectives include different aspects of human development necessary to provide appropriate developmental practices in educating young children and

Jean Piaget, a cognitivist, believed children progressed through a series of four key stages of cognitive development. These four major stages, sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational, are marked by shifts in how people understand the world. Although the stages correspond with an approximate age, Piaget’s stages are flexible in that if the child is ready they can reach a stage. Jean Piaget developed the Piagetian cognitive development theory. Piaget’s theory of cognitive development proposes that a child’s intellect, or cognitive ability, progresses through four distinct stages. The emergence of new abilities and ways of processing information characterize each stage. Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development suggests that children move through four different stages of mental development. His theory focuses not only on understanding how children acquire knowledge, but also on understanding the nature of intelligence.