Neo-Piagetian theories of cognitive development

Peek-a-boo is a game played with a young baby, which involves hiding behind something and suddenly reappearing, saying “peekaboo.” Throughout this game, the infant brain has different neurons that need to function together in order for them to react the way they do. Although the baby has not developed enough knowledge to understand where the object went, it is still very important that each neurons acts properly under command. Neurons used to complete a babies understanding of peek-a-boo is…

Throughout this essay the theories of development by Jean Piaget and Jerome Bruner will be discussed, highlighting the similarities and differences in both and their influence and relevance to the teaching of mathematics in primary schools today. Jean Piaget divided a child’s cognitive development in to four main stages. The sensorimotor stage (0-2 years) is outlined by Piaget as a child learning about the environment around them through their senses with no realisation of object permanence…

Warneken and Tomasello (2006) studied whether human infants are born altruistic and if it was more apparent than in our closest primate relative, chimpanzees. The independent variable was presenting eighteen-month-old infants four situational categories in which an adult needed aid: out-of-reach objects, access thwarted by a physical object, achieved a wrong but correctable result, and using a wrong but correctable method. After, there were three phrases in which the experimenter waited for a…

In the 1920's Jean Piaget realized that children have a different way of thinking than adults do. After realizing this he decided to invest his time into trying to figure out why. He eventually came up with the 4 stages of child development that every single child goes through. The stages go from when an infant is born until it is around 11 years old. Every child is in the sensorimotor stage until they get to be around 2 years old. During this stage infants become area of their senses like touch…

20th of February 1993 with the abduction and murder of James Bulger. In this report it will review several psychological theories trying to explain how two boys so young could commit just vicious crimes. (Urbas, G., 2000) Moral development is perceived in terms of transitioning through stages which may be linked to cognitive dissonance (Boom, 2011). Piaget (1932) created his theory by studying children and how they participated in playing games, a conclusion was developed that there were two…

The preoperational stage of cognitive development is a stage where a child is in the pre cognitive stage of understanding. The age ranges from two to seven years of age. Children in this age group are unable to apply logic to situations and create realistic ideas. Most principles associated with this stage are centration, egocentrism, play, symbolic representation, animism and many others. Centration focuses on the child's inability to concentrate on different aspects of a situation at the same…

enters a new stage, his behavior will tend to change due to cognitive and motor development. In this study we will be focusing on the “magic years”(Shelov & Altmann, 2015), ages 3-4. Observation of the behavior of 4 year old Lizzie, and 3 year old Braxton has already taken place. Their behavior varies because Braxton is deaf and his language skills are used through signing rather than speech, but there is still much development that takes place at this stage that has been observed.…

The theory of Jean Piaget concentrates more on the development of a child than it does on the learning aspect (McLeod,2015). Piaget’s theory suggests that there are distinct stages of development that are set apart by their differences, instead of slow increases in how complex the behaviors and concepts are. The end all goal of his theory was to explain the mechanisms and ways the infant, then the child would develop into…

For this experiment, I interviewed a six year old female named Destiny. For the first assessment we read Aesop’s The Wolf & the Crane, where the wolf tricks the crane into helping him in promises of a reward and then informs her that her reward was letting her live after helping him. I asked Destiny what she thought the story meant (what they were trying to say) and she responded with a concrete operational response such as “the wolf lied to the crane because he didn’t give her a reward like he…

Seven, we explored one particular direction, the theories that looked at the structure of American society and noted that a capitalist society caused strain for many individuals. In addition, cultural/subcultural theories were examined. In this chapter, while continuing to focus, at least for the most part, on theories that have received considerable attention and empirical support, we take a look at social learning theories and social control theories. According to Ronald Akers, himself one of…