Piaget's Cognitive Development Study

Fisher-Price Jumperoo Rainforest is one of the toys from group A, the targeted age range of this toy is birth to 12 months. According to Piaget’s Four Stages of Cognitive Development, it should be in sensorimotor stage. At this stage the infant is only a purely natural creature, they have no real knowledge about the world, past or future. Infants can only touch and watch, they cannot be logical reasoning. At the end of this stage, there are two cognitive accomplishments infants should have mastered: Object Permanence and Goal directed behavior. First cognitive accomplishment is object permanence, it means infant will know someone or something is still existing even if they cannot see or touch. For example, you hide a toy in front of an infant,

Piaget's Theory of cognitive development consists of four stages: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational. A 3-year-old preschooler falls into the preoperational stage and a 9-year-old student falls into the concrete operational stage. By definition, the preoperational stage is being able to think beyond the here and now, but being unable to perform mental transformations. The concrete operational stage is described as being able to perform mental transformations, but only on concrete objects. A child would move from the preoperational stage to the concrete operational stage once they master conservation tasks and organization skills.

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 classified cognitive development into four distinct stages: sensorimotor, pre-operational, concrete operational and formal operational. My role as a second grade classroom teacher involves educating students between the ages of 7 and 8. According to Piaget’s theory these student are in the initial years of the concrete operational stage (Boeree, 2006). Piaget suggests that these students are developing the schemas of conservation, reversible thinking, semiotic functions, classification, and seriation (Boeree, 2006). Classroom experience has informed me that frequently students begin second grade employing one-way logic and remain egocentric, which are schemas of the pre-operational stage. Therefore, my role remains that of a guide leading and supporting students as they compare these schemas to the real world, which creates tension, and subsequently assimilate or accommodate to create novel understandings. As Piaget stated, “We can classify education into 2 main categories: passive education, relying primarily on memory; and active education, relying on intelligent understanding and discovery. Our real problem is--what is the goal of education? Are we forming children who are only capable of learning what is already known? Or should we try to develop creative and innovative minds, capable of discovery from the preschool age on, throughout life?”(as quoted in

I. Stage Description Piaget theory of cognitive development states that children’s initial ideas or behaviors that are influenced by prior experiences and interactions develop through four types of stages. One stage that Piaget addresses is called the Preoperational stage. This stage effects children who are between two and seven years old. During this stage, children begin to participate in behaviors that revolve around how to operate symbols.

Adolescence is the transition between childhood and adulthood (Berk, 2014, p. 361). During adolescence, children and teenagers begin to form their identity, establishing who they are based on their values and goals (Berk, 2014, p. 361). Adolescence typically begins with puberty and is followed by changes in motor and cognitive development (Berk, 2014, p. 362). During adolescence, teenagers often experience Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development, Erikson’s Theory of Development, and Kohlberg’s 3 Levels of Moral Development. These theories and ideas have helped form the basis of normal adolescent development. Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development describes how the use of more advanced and abstract thinking occurs in a sequence for all children,

What are the major challenges to Piaget's theory of cognitive development and what aspects still have value?

Jean Piaget was a field altering stage theorist born in 1896 of Swiss descent. He was a pioneer in the concept of cognitive development. Cognitive development is by definition the study of how children acquire the ability to learn, think, reason, communicate, and remember. Piaget opened up and dissected the question, “how do children construct their worlds”. Piaget was the first person to present a comprehensive account of cognitive development. In the following essay I will dissect the complex and varying differences between a 3-year-old preschooler and a 9-year-old student in terms of the theories professed by Piaget. As a stage theorist Piaget focused on children’s development involving radical reorganization of thinking at specific common points. He dissected the

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 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.

Have you ever wondered why someone someone does the things they do? The answer to this question can be related back to psychology. Psychology is the study of the complex functions of the human brain, which tells a person how to react, what to feel, what to think, along with so many other functions. Everything people do can be explained by psychology. I can relate experiences in my life to several psychology concepts including Piaget’s stages of cognitive development, psychoactive drugs, and dreams.

This essay seeks to investigate the strengths and weaknesses of Piaget’s theory on cognitive development. It will focus on Piaget’s work highlighting positive attributes and how they’re being applied in modern day and also delve on key limitations of the theory. Piaget was a Swiss psychologist who was interested on why children would give similar but wrong answers in an intelligence test (Vidal, 1994). Based on his observations, he concluded that children undergo sequential cognitive development patterns which occur in defined stages in which the child has to follow in succession (Martin, Carlson & Buskist, 2013). Consequently, we will focus on the cognitive abilities of a child in relation to socio-cultural influence and research methodology that Piaget used.

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.

While Ruby’s growing ability to express herself is an indicator of the preoperational stage being in effect, there are other signs that she exhibits to further support that, namely that she does not yet fathom the concept of conservation. To understand conservation, the child must be able to overcome centration, which is the tendency to focus on only one feature and disregard others (Weiten, 2010; Santrock, 2015). If shown two different glasses – one short and fat, one tall and skinny – filled with an equal amount of water, Ruby assesses the tall and skinny glass as having more because of the height of the water. These results give further credence to the accuracy of Piaget’s cognitive stages in early childhood.

The first stage of Piaget’s development theory is the sensorimotor stage which takes place in children most commonly 0 to 2 years old. In this stage, thought is developed through direct physical interactions with the environment. Three major cognitive leaps in this stage are the development of early schemes, the development of goal-oriented behavior, and the development of object permanence. During the early stages, infants are only aware of what is immediately in front of them. They focus on what they