Neo-Piagetian theories of cognitive development

While reading chapter 6 called Cognitive Development in Infancy, I was able to reflect and come up with many questions, concerns, and comments about the material being read. This chapter talked about Piaget’s theory on infant development. There were three different things that were discussed in this theory. There is cognitive process, the sensorimotor stage, and then they evaluate Piaget’s sensorimotor stage. Cognitive process is developed mental processes, such as perception, memory, language…

In " A Hot/Cool-System Analysis of Delay of Gratification: Dynamics of Willpower", Mischel,et al further explains the "two systems" theory he mentioned in his article of "Delay of Gratification in Children". In "Delay of Gratification in Children", Mischel proposed the idea of two different stimuli such as hot and cool stimuli, he argues these two different type of stimuli affect the children's delay behavior significantly. They explains hot and cool systems connecting with children's will power…

I agree with both Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky that human understanding develops in cognitive ways. Both theorists believed cognitive development begins from an early age. Humans change and develop their thinking in reasoning, concepts, memory and language as they mature. According to (McDevitt, Ormrod, Cupit, Chandler & Aloa, 2013) “Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky, both of whom examined the active manner in which children learn, though the differed radically in their explanations”. Classroom…

Latin word “adolescere” meaning “growing up” (The Psychology book, 2012 pg. 47)”. It involves developing a sense of identity, cognitive development, physical and sexual development; and transitioning through puberty, from the age of 11 to 20 years (K. Cherry, 2010).…

In chapter five physical development in infancy and toddlerhood this reading emphasize’s on motor development. The definition of motor development refers to the development of a child's bones, muscles and ability to move around and manipulate his or her environment. Motor skills are a milestone in a parents life in consideration of there child taking their first steps to speaking their first words. “ When motor skills work as a system, separate abilities blend together, each cooperating with…

and she feels supported by her new friends. Considering that Delaney has formed social relationships as a result of her interest in field hockey, it can be concluded that Delaney is experiencing Erikson’s identity vs. role confusion stage of development. This stage explains that an individual needs to develop a strong sense of self, or identity, which can be done by forming social relationships. Next, she told me what she was most…

When a child is born, one of the first things they do is open their eyes, little do they know how sight will control their lives. Children's eyesight develops from focusing on toys, following parents and being attracted to lights and colours. Eye conditions also develop in the early stages of childhood. From a young age, I grew up with an eye condition known as strabismus, only now do I know how my sight has been affected. Being slightly myopic, I became more intrigued in optics after being…

The main stages of human development. The main stages of human development are the prenatal period, Infancy, early childhood, middle and late childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, and late adulthood (Santrock, 2015, p. 14). The prenatal stage starts at conception and ends with child birth (Santrock, 215, p. 14). The infancy stage starts with child birth and ends somewhere close to two years old (Santrock, 2015, p. 14). The early childhood stage starts around three and ends around five years…

Piaget's theory of cognitive development explains how a child constructs a mental model of the world. His contributions focus on a stage theory of child cognitive development, detailed observational studies of cognition in children. An example that I could think of a child that was born with a certain ability to construct the thought is that my youngest sister thought an object did not exist anymore when she did not see the object. When I took her toys away, she completely lost the interest,…

different, more similar staring time for both possible and impossible outcomes as shown in figure 3. Nonetheless both figures would still be correct considering the different reactions there would be. 5b. The results in figure 3. could explain a Piagetian hypothesis because it shows that after ten seconds the infants could not remember the objects behind the cover showing there is a lack of object permanence.…