Cognitive development is defined by Duchesne and McMaugh (2016) as a person’s capability to consider, comprehend and evoke the environment that we live in. This is impacted by experiences with physical item and actions, and also though social interaction with people around you. This concept of the capability within children interested Piaget and he sought to identify a universal process of cognitive development through questioning how their thought processes change and evolve from birth through maturation, activity and social transformation (Duchesne & McMaugh, 2016). He focused not just on what the children know, but the particular errors that children make in …show more content…
The play context allows the conflict between the prediction, , to be assimilated into a new goal. Because the goal is of their choosing to begin with, and because the play context allows for self-directed flexibility, it truly does not matter. Nonetheless, the children have acquired a deeper understanding of the relationship between the marks on the roller and the action of rolling it on play dough - a relationship they can build on in their future hypotheses. Play, then, offers the child the opportunity to make sense out of the world by using available tools. Understanding is created by doing, by doing with others and by being completely involved in that doing. Through play, the child comes to understand the world and the adult comes to understand the …show more content…
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