The Cognitive Development Of Children

While studying psychology, Jean Piaget became extremely interesting of children development and learning throughout their lives. It was over a course of six decades of his career in child psychology when he recognized four stages of mental development

Even though some people think studying child development is worthless, the way children reason is critical for teachers and caregivers to recognize. Over the summer I watched a child age three to four. Caregiving over summer is the reason, I choose age three to four. For this paper the child will be called Grace. Grace was similar to a little sister because my family has cared for her five days a week since she was two months old. This year she started attending preschool. We miss not seeing her five days a week but know she needs to transition into preschool. I studied human development during the summer. I learned about social cognition observable in in theory of mind, classification and

Cognition is the process involved in thinking and mental activity, such as attention, memory and problem solving. In this essay on cognitive development I will compare and contrast the theories of Piaget and Vygotsky, who were both influential in forming a more scientific approach to analysing the cognitive development process of the child active construction of knowledge. (Flanagan 1996 P.72). I will then go onto evaluate the usefulness of these theories in understanding a child's development.

Jean Piaget is best known for his theory that suggested children think differently than adults. His theory proposed that children’s cognitive development developed in

Cognitive development is the construction of the thought processes and how the brain continues to grow from childhood to adulthood. Cognitive development includes remembering, problem solving and decision-making. A 4 year old in cognitive development should be able to correctly name familiar colours, sort objects by shape and colours and remember parts of stories. This relates to my child Bonnie as she is currently able to count to 10 with no supports and is able to name all her basic colours and know the right times to use them when drawing/ colouring in pictures. She also knows her basic shapes like circle, squares and triangles. This relates to my brief how children and young people can be supported during transition as this helps bonnie in her transition from nursery to school as she’s currently has the knowledge in order to get her ready for school.

Children learning about spiders can help them conquer their fears associated with spiders. Children learn to appreciate the variety of spiders that live around us. Children learn how much work it takes for spiders to build webs, why they are important in the natural world and spiders eat bugs to help keep crops alive. Children also learn that spiders serve an important function for our ecosystems.

Who is Jean Piaget, and impact has he made on psychology? According to Les Smith, Piaget was born in Switzerland on August 9, 1896. Piaget was an extremely brilliant child, and he excelled at his studies. By age 11, he wrote a short paper on an albino sparrow. Many people believe that this paper ignited his scientific career. Once he graduated high school, he attended the University of Neuchatel. Piaget received a Ph.D. in natural sciences. He was extremely interested in the development of knowledge, so he worked with Alred Binet and De Simon to do experimental studies on the growing mind. Piaget eventually married Valentine Chatenay and had three children. His children are Jacqueline, Lucieene, and Laurent. Piaget continued his study on intellectual development by studying his own children. Les Smith describes Piaget’s scientific conclusion as “the growth of knowledge is a progressive construction of logically embedded structures superseding one another by a process of inclusion of lower less powerful ones up to adulthood. Therefore, a children’s logic and modes of thinking are initially entirely different from those of adults.” As a result of Piaget’s experiments he made Piaget’s Stages of Development. These stages represent the normal intellectual development that occurs during infancy to adulthood. The stages are sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational.

My first award is my Kindergarten certificate. My emotional development was impacted the most because I learned so much my first year of school it’s just a jumble of feelings. I learned how to make friends. I also learned how to draw, read, and write. Kindergarten taught me so much and I had so much fun, I wish I never had to leave.

Cognitive development will be supported by children being able to focus on thinking. The lesson will demonstrate children’s’ understanding identifying and naming which flower is taller and which flower shorter as well as comparing two flowers. The lesson enhances student’s eagerness and curiosity to learn new things and have new experiences.

Thanks to Jean Piaget, we have a little insight into how children think and how they grow mentally. Jean Piaget believed that every person grew mentally as there was an increase to understand what was going on. He though that needing to make sense of our experiences caused us to think differently. To understand his way of figuring out some of the way the thought

The developmental stages of growth in childhood comes from many theorists such as Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky, Lawrence Kohlberg, and Erik Erikson have provided ways to understand development. Middle childhood is an important stage and pathway to future development. Middle childhood includes biological and neurophysiological development. During my middle childhood I was an average height and I really skinny. I throughout my middle childhood years I weighed 90 pounds. I started puberty really late, I think I was about fifteen when I got my first period. Cognitive development includes intellectual and language development, reasoning abilities and memory capacities. During middle childhood, I like to think that I was a logical reasoner an I achieved

There are many different things that shape the cognitive development of children. To begin with cognitive development is when a child develops how to process, solve problems, and start making decisions. Once they have learned this they take everything they have learned into their adolescence. An example, of what can shape the cognitive development of a child can be an educational game. Educational games can be very useful in shaping a child’s development because they are having fun while learning at the same time and what kid doesn’t like to play games, the fact that it is even educational makes it even better for them. Not only are they having fun but there are many different games that help in different categories of development in

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.

Jean Piaget was a cognitive theorist and “psychologist who identified stages of mental development, and established the fields of cognitive theory and developmental psychology” (biography.com, n.d.) who was born on August 9th, 1896 in Neuchatel, Switzerland. Jean Piaget’s three children influenced his work as he used them in his case studies of child development. He graduated from the University of Neuchatel graduated in 1916 when he was twenty years old, then went on to get his doctorate of Biology at the age of 22. Piaget’s cognitive theory is made up of 3 components; schemas; adaptation processes and the four stages of development. The first component to his cognitive theory is the four stages of child development, the sensorimotor stage (birth – 2 years) which involves learning through motor actions, the preoperational stage (2 years – 7 years) which involves children developing intelligence by

Young children are more likely to form friendships with children who they see on a regular basis. Preschool friends are more likely to maintain close proximity to one another than children who are not friends (Lindsey). The findings of this study suggest that mutual friendship is an important factor in children 's social development as early as the preschool years.