Object permanence

The theories about cognitive development that were created and presented by Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky have long been regarded as great sources of information on how cognitive development occurs. It is through these theories that people’s understanding of how children develop, cognitively, in those formative years has been shaped. Each theory has its own unique take on what contributes, influences, and constructs cognitive development. Both theories offer an important insight, and should be…

Concrete Functions and Formal Operations. The Sensorimotor stage is the first of the four stages in cognitive development which “extends from birth to the acquisition of language”. (0-2 years old) During this stage the infant learns the concept of object permanence or that things and people continue to exist even when they are out of sight. The Pre-operational stage is the second stage; in this stage the child begins to learn to speak. (2-7 years old) During this stage the child uses intuition…

As a parent, I have watched my daughter grow and develop. She talked from an early age, and her language development soared with our interaction. She loves to draw and uses symbols to identify objects such as pets, family, or food. My daughter loves to play and pretends various scenarios with her toys. For example, we pretended that her princess characters were at an ice cream parlor and at fake ice cream. According to Woolfolk, this is known as…

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…

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…

Evaluate the view that stage-based approaches to development are unable to account for individual differences in development In a quest to explain development, stage based approaches are often used. Stage based approaches look at the development of children in particular being divided into concrete stages, in which the fundamental development takes place (Bukatko & Daehler, 2001). One of the most relevant stage based approach is that of Piaget. Piaget believed that cognitive development could…

Children think differently than adults, and therefore develop their thoughts differently. According to the psychology book, cognitive development can be described as the study of how children acquire the ability to learn, think, reason, communicate, and remember. One can observe a great difference between a 3-year-old preschooler’s thinking pattern and a 9-year-old student’s thinking pattern. Each child has a different thinking ability which falls into a stage of Piaget’s theory of stages of…

The study of Montemayor and Eisen studied the development of individuals pre-adolescence and post-adolescence. It was hypothesized that young children will only describe themselves with concrete and physical characteristics. However, they believed that older individuals will use more physiological and interpersonal traits. There were significant increases among children and adolescents in seven categories: occupational role, interpersonal descriptions, existential living, ideological living and…

Data Analysis: Nature of intelligence in one’s personality and Reality as a dynamic force of constant amendments in The Lost Pearl by Lara Zuberi Cognitive development is the construction of intellectual aptitude including identification, investigation, exposition, sensitivity and judgment, from childhood through adolescence to adulthood. Nature of intelligence mainly involves the intellectual practicalities, psychological sequences (thoughts), and eminences of intelligent entities. An…

A psychological theory that is reflected in the case study is Piaget’s ‘Theory of Cognitive Development’. Piaget’s theory involves four stages of a child’s cognitive development and how they can understand different things during the different stages of development (refer to the table below) (Wadsworth, 1996). Piaget’s theory importantly shows that children between 7-11 (stage three) can usually only fully understand concrete situations (Wadsworth, 1996). So, in distressing and unknown…