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    Piaget has four stages of cognitive development, sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational and formal operational. Each stage has different outcomes and also has different ages for each stage. Piaget although a well respected theorist had some implications in his research of children. Piaget only studied his children and no others giving somewhat bias results to the tests and to the stages of cognitive development that Piaget created. Explain the process of learning according to…

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    Education Theories According to Bredekamp (2014), theories perform an explanation of how information and observations are organized to relate to one another (p.101). As children grow through time, their experiences and brain activity develop differently. Over the years research has shown that theories are in fact evolving overtime due to the changes in the way children learn. Theories that have been made often affect the way people, educators, parents, doctors behave. Some theories are in…

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    Comparing Vygotsky and Piaget Brief Summary of the Theories of Piaget and Vygotsky Piaget’s Theory Piaget believed that as children grew, they went through specific stages. He proposed that cognitive development from infant to young adult occurs in four universal and consecutive stages: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operations, and formal operations (Woolfolk, 2004). Piaget believed that when children developed, it was more of an autonomous process instead of a secondary consequence…

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    Name of Psychologist Jean Piaget Field of Psychology Developmental Psychology Main Contributions Piaget’s theory of cognitive development is his theory that he theorised that the person’s childhood plays a major role in his or her development as a person. In his theory there are 4 stages, Jean Piaget was inspired by that theory when he was observing his nephew and his daughter, he concluded that children are not less smart than the adults, but they think differently compared to the adults.…

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    Imaginative and creative play are often undervalued but the positive impact they have on the cognitive development of children has been well documented. The relationship between imagination and creativity in play has been studied in depth, probably most notably by Lev Vygotsky. In 1990, he theorised that the imagination serves as the crucial aspect of all human creative activity and that imagination is a function that is essential to life. He denotes that this creative behaviour “makes the…

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    his contributions to this area of study, developed a theory on cognitive development. Piaget 's theory concentrated on the cognitive development in children in an attempt to understand the extent and maturation of human intelligence. The first aspect of Piaget 's theory is the formation of schemas. Think of a schema as a category tin which you group similar objects, actions, and situations. Piaget theorized that there were two types of learning: assimilation and accommodation. Assimilation…

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    Part I: Classical and Operant conditioning theories are similar in that they are both concept of learning but are different in their approach and outcome. Name of theory & theorist: Classical Conditioning Theory, Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936) Classical conditioning theory is learning by association. Here a neutral stimuli (Condition Stimuli) which on its own would not produce a response (unconditioned response/natural response), can produce a response (UR) after being associated with natural triggers…

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    This motivation is increased by creating an environment that provides children choices and letting them take responsibility for their learning. The children need to develop mastery motivation; this means they are more concentrated on the process of achievement rather than the outcome. The mindset also influences achievement. If the children have a growth mindset, then they understand that…

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    Psychologists’ Theories and Age Characteristics Piaget’s Cognitive Development Theory The popular saying: “a place for everything and everything in its place” seems to be the motto of Jean Piaget’s Cognitive Theory. According to Piaget, humans were born with the proclivity to organize and adapt (Snowman & McCown, 2013). Piaget believed that as children interact with the world around them, they begin to “formulate organized patterns of behavior or thought, known as schemes” (Snowman & McCown,…

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    There are three theories that explain the development of cognition in childhood. The first one is Piaget’s theory, Piaget believed that children are scientists since they control their own information from experimenting the world and they learn things on their own without the need of help from others. The second one is Vygotsky’s theory, Vygotsky believed that cognitive development comes from social interactions and guided learning within the zone of proximal development. Vygotsky stresses…

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