Essays on Jean Piaget

Abstract This paper is about cognitive processes and how they affect an individual’s thinking and mental processing abilities. The paper will take into consideration adolescents, and analyze their various activities, including learning problems if any, and find explanations about why they do what they do. A conclusion will be reached. Cognitive Processes     Jerry A…

Cognitive development is interpreted as the gradual orderly development of thinking, understanding and reasoning processes from birth to maturity. The aim of primary school is to build the knowledge and the skills children need to have for further cognitive development. Therefore, the constant development of coginition is very important to young children, because it gives…

Choose at least four theorists, using the internet, library or other sources, investigate the main ideas of each theorist’s research. Write an essay describing their ideas that interest you and that you will find most useful for your study of child and young person development. Give your reasons for your choice of theorist. Be sure…

Humans go through major developmental phases from birth to adulthood. These developmental stages are seen socially, cognitively, emotionally, physically, and spiritually. Some of these changes are obvious to the eye and some are not so obvious. Using five open-ended questions to analyze the social and emotional development of four children. This paper looks at the…

Title: An Essay on Application, Breadth, and Depth Components Introduction             In the creation of an effective and informative Knowledge Area Module for any field of study areas specifically related to the study of  human development, it is imperative that a Learning Agreement Application is appropriately selected and used to illustrate a more tangible evidence…

How to Compare & Contrast the Theories of Piaget and Vygotsky Jean Piaget was a Swiss developmental psychologist famous for his theories of child development, particularly his theory of cognitive development. He proposed a stage theory of development, which linked the interaction between cognitive and biological development in children. Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky was a Russian…

Learning Theories Comparison: Similarities and Differences Similarities/Differences Theorist Summary of Theory Behaviorist o    Skinner in effect shows that the implementation of learning lies in how the teacher is able to “man” the classroom or navigate the course of learning for the children. o    Tests usually are the objective types o    The curriculum being use has…

Introduction How humans develop in terms of reasoning, logic and skills at solving problems, has continued to be a subject of interest for sociologists and psychologists alike. The question of whether cognitive development is purely a product of biology or human socialization persists even to this day.  Jean Piaget and Lev Vykovsky both present theories…

Comparing Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development to Erikson’s Stages of Social Development Child psychologist, Jean Piaget, believed that a person understands whatever information fits into his established view of the world. Piaget described four stages of cognitive development and related them to a person’s ability to understand. The Sensorimotor Stage occurs from birth to 2…

Jean Piaget and his Cognitive Development Theory One of the most seminal thinkers in childhood development is none other than Jean Piaget himself. Jean Piaget lived from 1896 to 1980 and based most of his psychological research on the development of children. Jean Piaget was born in Switzerland on the 8th of August 1896. Even…