Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development talks about how people gain information through the years. This happens in four stages: the sensorimotor stage, the preoperationational reasoning stage, the concrete operational stage, and the formal operational stage. This past week I have been studying a child in the concrete operational stage. This stage is from ages seven to eleven. In this period of time, the child will have “more flexible thinking and can think in more than one dimension” (Bailey, 2017). Children will have complex classification meaning they can recognize more than one attribute of something. For example, a blue sphere; color and shape. Furthermore, I have studied an adult, who is in the
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These observations were taken in her own home, showing this is how she acts every day. Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development states that a woman at this age should be in the formal operational stage. This woman should be able to think deeply and hypothetically, understand cause and effect, and consider possibilities as well as realities. I believe she exceeds all of these. This woman was showing me the spreadsheet of the bills she paid each month, how much extra money she has, and what would happen if she spent too much. This shows that she understands all three of the ideas that describe the formal operational stage.
Erikson’s Theory in Middle Adulthood
Erikson’s Psychosocial Stages say that this woman should be worrying about whether she has done something with her life making people remember her or she hasn’t done anything with her life and her name won’t be brought up a month after her death. In my opinion, this woman is very memorable. She has done many things for her children, her family, and her work to make her more than memorable. One specific thing I noticed was the way she talked to her baby niece. This child looks up to the woman with so much respect when she talks to her. Nobody could forget their biggest role model in life.
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Erikson’s Psychosocial Stages are very thorough and very detailed. Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development is very organized and well thought out. The one thing that stood out to me the most was that both theories group ages and talk for the lowest level of intelligence. By this I am meaning, the stereotypes these philosophers set are for the youngest in the age groups of large numbers, not the oldest or the middle. I noticed this because both of the people I was observing exceeded both of the scholar's ideas, making the woman and the boy look unintelligent. In my opinion, both of the philosophers should group the people in years of two so there is less progression time. Overall, these theories are very well thought out and
These observations were taken in her own home, showing this is how she acts every day. Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development states that a woman at this age should be in the formal operational stage. This woman should be able to think deeply and hypothetically, understand cause and effect, and consider possibilities as well as realities. I believe she exceeds all of these. This woman was showing me the spreadsheet of the bills she paid each month, how much extra money she has, and what would happen if she spent too much. This shows that she understands all three of the ideas that describe the formal operational stage.
Erikson’s Theory in Middle Adulthood
Erikson’s Psychosocial Stages say that this woman should be worrying about whether she has done something with her life making people remember her or she hasn’t done anything with her life and her name won’t be brought up a month after her death. In my opinion, this woman is very memorable. She has done many things for her children, her family, and her work to make her more than memorable. One specific thing I noticed was the way she talked to her baby niece. This child looks up to the woman with so much respect when she talks to her. Nobody could forget their biggest role model in life.
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Erikson’s Psychosocial Stages are very thorough and very detailed. Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development is very organized and well thought out. The one thing that stood out to me the most was that both theories group ages and talk for the lowest level of intelligence. By this I am meaning, the stereotypes these philosophers set are for the youngest in the age groups of large numbers, not the oldest or the middle. I noticed this because both of the people I was observing exceeded both of the scholar's ideas, making the woman and the boy look unintelligent. In my opinion, both of the philosophers should group the people in years of two so there is less progression time. Overall, these theories are very well thought out and