Cognitive development

(i)Observation Question 1. According to Piaget, there are four stages of human cognitive development. These stages include sensory-motor stage, pre-occupational stage, concrete operational stage, and the formal operations stage. The sensory motor stage occurs starting from birth to about two years. During this stage, the child is able to use objects, and only understands his or her environment by relating it to objects (Piaget 14). Babies are triggered by stimuli in this stage, where they learn…

Newborns need sixteen to eighteen hours of sleep thought out each day. Sleep greatly impacts their cognitive development, because while babies are sleeping, their brains continue to process things around them (Fifer et al., 2010). Newborns have two stages of sleep. The first stage is known as NREM (non-rapid eye-movement). This stage typically means a light sleep. Heart rates and body temperatures decrease as well. In contrast, REM (rapid eye movement) sleep is the final stage of the sleep…

Russian psychologist, came up with a theory on childhood cognition development, and believed that mental growth occurs through socializing and interacting with other people. He stated that children learn only when they are left alone to solve hard problems, after getting few direct instructions from more experienced adults or other knowledgeable children. I believe this to be the best theory for childhood cognition development because of the experiences I have faced and the actions, of people, I…

Cognitive development and cultural, racial, gender and social class influences. Several factors influence the cognitive development of a person during the entire stage of development and until old age. Among the factors identified our culture, race, gender and social classes. These influences can alter the reasoning, diet, height, weight, health among people of different cultures. Each of these powers affects cognitive development, and it varies among all known cultures. The hereditary…

Cognitive development is emergence of the ability to think and understand, and as time progressed we as humans began to reason and understand why there is an emergence of the ability to think and understand at a higher order within our civilizations history. From what began as Jean Piagets understanding of the operational stages of cognitive development. With an emergence of this and a new field of study, neuroscience, there was an overlap between cognitive development and how the psychology of…

Theory of Cognitive Development Mathematical games and teaching with analogy models hinge on Piaget’s theory of cognitive development. Piaget’s theory of cognitive development proposes that humans cannot get information, which they automatically understand; instead, they construct their own knowledge through prior personal experiences, which enable them to create schemas. When cognitive structures are underdeveloped, learning is difficult, if not impossible. With effective cognitive structures…

When understanding development for young children we need to take into consideration their ethnic, racial, socioeconomic, and gender differences. According to the scenario the little girl would best be explained by John B. Watson, B.F. Skinner, Jean Piaget and Lee Vygotsky. They are some of the many psychologists who had innovated theories on the explanation of human behaviors. Classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and cognitive development, and sociocultural theory approach are learning…

Piaget’s cognitive development theory has four periods and the sensorimotor period in particular pique my interest. The period basically explains the cognitive growth we undergo the first two years of life. Growing up I was surrounded with family. My great grandmother had seventeen kids, who in return went on to have countless kids as well, and so the process continued. When it was my siblings turn to produce, they wasted no time. Presently there are seven juniors with promises of more to come…

four-year-old Irene. The class room has grown with new students in comparison to the first observation. The class now consists of sixteen students, eight boys and eight girls, in the first observation there were six boys and five girls. Physical Development Irene is the tallest child in her class and seem to be in average in weight. She is a healthy four-year-old she is able to run, climb, jump, and walk with no trouble of falling…

As I read the chapter “How Might Learning through an Educational Interpreter Influence Cognitive Development” by Brenda Schick (2005), I came away with three main points: an interpreter can delay a child’s development of Theory of Mind, the presence of an interpreter can limit a deaf or hard of hearing (hoh) student’s interactions with hearing students, and an interpreter can impact learning by omitting or distorting information. The ability to think abstractly and realize that people have…