Cognitive Perspective
Cognition is the mental activity or- the knowledge that we have. This is a cognitive approach.
According to this perspective, children can learn through experience. An example for this is, a new born baby wouldn’t know that fire can be dangerous and they shouldn’t touch it. Teachers and adults can only facilitate learning. When a baby touches fire, and it hurts them it is unlikely that they touch it again because they would know that it will hurt them.
Stage Stage name Age (years) Focus of development.
Stage 1 Sensorimotor 0-2 The world is experienced via motor activity and the senses
Stage 2 Per-operational 2-7 Language develops with memory. The child is egocentric and unable to think logically.
Stage 3 Concrete operational …show more content…
Conservation example: 2 bottles filled with water, one long and slim and the other small but wider and contains more water than the first one. If you ask a child which one has more water in, the child will say that the longer one has more as it’s longer. However, he doesn’t know that it has less that the other bottle because he’ll think that whichever one is taller has the most. Showing the child in a different way that the wider bottle has more again and again will help him understand and learn through experience.
Jean Piaget is a psychologist who studied the way children learn. He was a researcher, he studied genes and transmission of genes – how human develops and he concluded that children learn through experience which is when they do something themselves. Therefore, environmental stimulation is important for a child to …show more content…
The same with swimming and driving we know what to do automatically without having to think about it after we have learnt through experience.
Illustrating understanding into a case study (social care setting):
Callum and Hannah have set up a new child minding business. They will be caring for a range of children, during the day and after school. They need to make sure the children they care for, develop intellectually.
According to Piaget’s theory, children who attend the service learn through experience. For example, Callum and Hannah can set up activities that help with their intellectual development such as puzzles depending on the child’s abilities (easy, medium, and hard). As the children do it again and again, they will learn from their mistakes and next time do it correctly. This can help their cognitive development and helps them to learn. It is important that they allow children to make mistakes as their knowledge will be corrected and when it comes to doing the activity again, they will know what went wrong and try to correct it.
Illustrating understanding into a case study (health care
Cognition is the mental activity or- the knowledge that we have. This is a cognitive approach.
According to this perspective, children can learn through experience. An example for this is, a new born baby wouldn’t know that fire can be dangerous and they shouldn’t touch it. Teachers and adults can only facilitate learning. When a baby touches fire, and it hurts them it is unlikely that they touch it again because they would know that it will hurt them.
Stage Stage name Age (years) Focus of development.
Stage 1 Sensorimotor 0-2 The world is experienced via motor activity and the senses
Stage 2 Per-operational 2-7 Language develops with memory. The child is egocentric and unable to think logically.
Stage 3 Concrete operational …show more content…
Conservation example: 2 bottles filled with water, one long and slim and the other small but wider and contains more water than the first one. If you ask a child which one has more water in, the child will say that the longer one has more as it’s longer. However, he doesn’t know that it has less that the other bottle because he’ll think that whichever one is taller has the most. Showing the child in a different way that the wider bottle has more again and again will help him understand and learn through experience.
Jean Piaget is a psychologist who studied the way children learn. He was a researcher, he studied genes and transmission of genes – how human develops and he concluded that children learn through experience which is when they do something themselves. Therefore, environmental stimulation is important for a child to …show more content…
The same with swimming and driving we know what to do automatically without having to think about it after we have learnt through experience.
Illustrating understanding into a case study (social care setting):
Callum and Hannah have set up a new child minding business. They will be caring for a range of children, during the day and after school. They need to make sure the children they care for, develop intellectually.
According to Piaget’s theory, children who attend the service learn through experience. For example, Callum and Hannah can set up activities that help with their intellectual development such as puzzles depending on the child’s abilities (easy, medium, and hard). As the children do it again and again, they will learn from their mistakes and next time do it correctly. This can help their cognitive development and helps them to learn. It is important that they allow children to make mistakes as their knowledge will be corrected and when it comes to doing the activity again, they will know what went wrong and try to correct it.
Illustrating understanding into a case study (health care