Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development Jonathan Kunz National University Abstract This assignment will briefly discuss Jean Piaget’s theory of cognitive development. It will provide a brief history about Piaget as a teenager and his interest on working with children. It will briefly describe the four stages of cognitive development. It will provide examples of children in the Preoperational stage and the Concrete Operational stage in and out of the school setting. This essay will…
Later Adolescence Autonomy from Parents People ages eighteen to twenty-four are considered later adolescence. One of the key factors in later adolescence is achieving autonomy from parents, which is the gateway to adulthood. Autonomy from parents is achieved when a later adolescent can regulate their own behavior and no longer rely on parents for decision making. One of the main ways this autonomy is achieved is through leaving the family home. The age at which a person leaves their family home…
The Cultural Dimension Theory is a theory that Professor Geert Hofstede developed beginning in the 1970’s. The theory analyzes the connections between communications and behaviors between cultures. The original theory consisted of four dimensions, and over the years it expanded to six dimensions. Power Distance Index, Uncertainty Avoidance Index, Individualism Versus Collectivism, Masculinity Versus Femininity, Long Term Orientation Versus Short Term Orientation, and Indulgence Versus…
performing. According to Freud, child development is referred to as some 'psychosexual periods.' In "Three Essays on Sexuality" (1915), Freud specified these levels as dental, anal,, latency period, and genital. Each level will involve the satisfaction of a particular desire and can later are likely involved in adult personality. Erik Erikson: Theorist…
Lawrence Kohlberg believed that people advanced through their moral reasoning in a series of stages. There are six identifiable stages that are classified into three levels. Pre-Conventional, Conventional, and Post-Conventional. When organized on a chart, it was classified as 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.…
1) Using Piaget's Cognitive Development theory, why do 5-year-olds think like Miriam? Analyze Miriam's thought process as related to Cognitive Developmental concepts (30 pts). Piaget's cognitive theory states that, "Thoughts and expectations profoundly affect attitudes, beliefs, values, assumptions, and actions" (The Developing Person, pg. 47). In Piaget's theory, two to six-year-old's think symbolically, with language, yet children are very egocentric and can only perceive things from their…
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…
Four Stage Model González-Herrero (1994) and González-Herrero and Pratt (1995, 1996) developed a four-stage model for crisis management which the various phases of crisis is considered analogous to the biological lifecycle from birth to death. The model describes the development of crisis with following sequential steps- birth, growth, maturity, and decline (death). The purpose of such demarcation is to clearly identify the different stages of the crisis so as to effectively deal with them.…
Cognitive development is the process of the mental activity within the human brain. This involves the method of thinking, memory and perception. Oakley (2004, p.2) states that ‘As a child develops, their thinking changes’. In this essay, I will compare and contrast two cognitive theories in child development and define how these theories might be applied by professionals working with children and families. Piaget and Vygotsky are both cognitive theorists. They established that cognitive…
performing everyday tasks made them questions and devised tests to see how they thought. As a result of his observations, Piaget believed that Cognitive development was a way to adapt to ambient. According to Piaget, children are intrinsically motivated to explore and understand the things and in doing progress through four stages or stages of cognitive development (Arslan et al., 2014). A recent study by the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has shown that a part of intelligence is inherited…