Theory of cognitive development

Urie Bronfenbrenner is an American psychologist who developed the Ecological system theory. His ecological system theory consists of four systems; micro-system, meso-system, exo-system, and macro-system. Similarly, Bronfenbrenner explains how these systems affects the development of a child. The very first system is a micro-system. In a microsystem, a child is affected by his immediate environment like; home, daycare, and his peer group. Here, the two-person dyads are building blocks of the…

I learned that when it seems like babies are copying what you are doing, an example being sticking out their tongue, they are copying you but they do not know they are doing it. That is called unconscious mimicry. Crying is the key to a baby’s survival. It is the only way they can get someone’s attention to do something for them since they cannot do things for themselves. An interesting fact was that at three weeks old baby’s most active muscles are the ones that control their eye, however they…

Erikson both studied child development and they both made their theories on it. Both Piaget and Erikson both theories were similar but they differed in many ways. One thing they could agree on that its stages in life that a human goes through that shapes them. Piaget’s theory focused on children and not so much adulthood. He made stages that described what the child was able to experience at a certain time in their development. With the use of schemata he thought out his theory. The reason why…

months of age and is one of the first sophisticated social abilities that they learn. It can be seen by what facial expressions they make; they will mirror those of a parent despite the situation. How this works is quite interesting. There are two theories of why this occurs. One is that viewing emotions will then have those emotions and feel those emotions. Second is that the infant will use the reaction as a guide to how they ought to react as well. I believe that it is a mix of both and that…

these set of chapters that has really stuck out to me had to be the Theory of Mind section. It’s interesting how something growing up we don’t even realize that we develop. It’s not a conscious change, or at least I don’t remember it being so when I started tuning into other people’s perspectives. I guess to a child it’s just imitating the world they see around them. Which is what makes this truly interesting, we develop this theory of mind and are able to tune into other people’s perspectives…

The videos “Plastic Brain 1” and “Plastic Brain 2,” illustrate how the brain is malleable and that it is critical to foster neural connections with respect to vision at an early age, otherwise those necessary connections may never be made. The patient depicted in the videos, Holly, is an infant with a cataract that was subsequently surgically removed. This example was employed in order to illustrate how the brain forms visual processing and the importance of early intervention should visual…

The reason I selected chapter 11 was because I was able to see and analyze Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development in real life during one of my psychology courses in high school. For this particular course, the project was based around the idea of learning about the stages by trying to point them during an observation of kids ranging from ages 3 to 5. By going in different times of the day, everyday for a month, I was able to analyze the kid’s behaviors and pin point which type of thinking…

Cognitive Development In this tutorial we leaned about three experiments that were conducted by Jean Piaget focusing on cognitive development. I learned various things from the views of Piaget, terms and the different stages of intellectual growth. Piaget made an observation of how children's thinking adapt to their environment as they get older. Meaning that the children learn in a form of adaptation. People organize metal thoughts to understand the way the world works. Piaget called it a…

spine, or laying on the stomach, side laying, prone, or laying on the back, 4 point, also known as crawling, standing with assistants and finally walking. For an infant to be able to develop any one of these patterns he or she would need 4 motor development skills. Starting with the first one: reciprocal inhibition or reflex protection, this is when you have 2 opposite muscles acting against…

Vygotsky believed in Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) which is the gap between what a child can do alone and what a child can do with the help from adults or peers who have a greater knowledge and provide instructions to the child to regulate their performance. According to Shaffer (1996) gives…