Key Factors Of Jean Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory

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For my project, I picked Jean Piaget’s cognitive development theory. He was a Swiss Scientist and he did a study on the thinking process of children, which was popularly known as clinical method. His study was based on the schemas. According to Piaget, in order to constantly adapt to our environment, human mind organise its way to understand the situation and current changes (Theories of development, 43). Moreover, schema is a cognitive framework that place a concept into categories and associations (43). The intellectual advancement was a dynamic rearrangement of mental procedures as an aftereffect of organic development and natural experience. Kids develop a comprehension of their general surroundings, then experience errors between what they definitely know and what they find in their surroundings. The cognitive development theory involves different stages of development of brain as sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operations, formal operations. This theory describes the techniques and methods through which an infant and then the child develops himself into an adult using the reason and thinkings of his/her hypothesis.
The first key factor of Piaget 's theory is Schemas which can be defined as the
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Accommodation are those methodology about evolving cognitive structures so as to accept something starting with nature 's domain. Both techniques are utilized at the same time or alternately during their lifetime. As an instant, when an infant uses a sucking schema that was developed by sucking on a small bottle when attempting to suck on a larger bottle (Overview of cognitive system). Moreover, when the previous knowledge did not work we have to change the pre adapted experiences in order to achieve success. These developmental changes can be explained on the different stages of development described by

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