Jean Piaget

irresponsible to allow children to walk to school or the park alone. Those opposed to free-range parenting cite child abduction or abuse as reasons to not allow children to be out on their own (Zamosky). From the point of view of Anna Freud and Jean Piaget, I will argue that free-range parenting is the better alternative to allow children to…

Comparing Vygotsky and Piaget Team Piaget or Team Vygotsky? It is hard to decide which psychologist came closer to the actual understanding of cognitive development. According to Orlando Lourenco (Piaget and Vygotsky: Many resemblances, and a crucial difference, 2012), both have made a huge impact on developmental psychology and education. Both theorist have analyzed a very important subject and have changed the educational setting drastically by recognizing cognitive development and learning…

Students with disabilities have to learn how to become socially accepted members of their community, just like normally developing students. Constructivists fell that teachers must instruct their students within their zone of proximal development. The zone of proximal development refers to, “ the instructional area between where the learner has independence or mastery and what can be achieved with competent assistance”(Mercer, Jordan, & Miller, 1994, p.292). Adding to the misunderstanding of…

This essay will discuss examples of play from my childhood. It will describe and relate the beliefs, values and attitudes of myself and my family and how they have influenced the way I grew up and played while I was young. It will link Jean Piaget, an early childhood theorist and his theory and how the theory I have chosen suggests that adults should support children’s learning and will link with two points from Te Whariki. Being the oldest of three children with divorced parents and…

mother, Cristy Lopez, and her father, Luis Lopez, questions concerning their daughter’s infanthood up until now. Then I moved on to experiment with Laura herself, to which she was more than willing to participate in. The experiment was to test what Jean Piaget called the concept of conservation.…

Developmental psychology is a sub-field of psychology that began in the late 19th century due to an increased interest in the development of children. Two relevant developmental psychology theories are Lev Vygotsky’s Social Development Theory and Jean Piaget’s Cognitive Theory of Development. Developmental psychologists utilize various research methods such as observation and archival research to help them answer questions and gain a better understanding of how and why children and adults…

greater impact on developmental psychology than Jean Piaget’s. Born in 1896 Switzerland, Piaget was always an extremely bright individual, with his first paper being published at age 10, and earning his Ph.D. at 22. As an anonymous reviewer of a paper on Piaget put it “assessing the impact of Piaget of developmental psychology is like assessing the impact of Shakespeare on English literature, or Aristotle in Philosophy – impossible” (Lourenço). Before Piaget the common assumption in psychology…

The sensorimotor stage is so immense; psychologist Jean Piaget separated it into six substages. For this research study, I will briefly discuss the fourth, fifth, and sixth substage, and give insight on specific behavior and development of object permanence. Additionally, I will describe my observations in detail and indicate whether they support Piaget’s theory. In the fourth substage, a baby’s behavioral process evolves, for instance inadvertent actions become premeditated, furthermore…

Both Piaget and Vygotsky provide fundamental explanations of learning that are still widely recognized accepted (Pass, 2004) However, just as these theories are respected they are also both critiqued for lacking in certain areas in relation to cognitive development (Tryphon & Vonèche, 1996). The thesis of this essay is to explore the contributions of Jean Piaget’s and Lev Vygotsky’s theories of cognitive development to modern education and teachings such as the scenario provided of the year 5…

Level, stage, and social orientation so that you could understand which level, what stage as in age, and behavior of the person. The concept of moral development is based on thinking and logic, not on feelings for others. This was all influenced by Jean Piaget the psychologist and the American philosopher John Dewey. At stage 1 children think of what is right as that which authority says is right. Doing the right thing is obeying authority and avoiding punishment. At stage…