Theory of cognitive development

1. Identify five areas in which children’s lives need to be improved and explain the roles of resilience and social policy in children’s development. Five areas in which children’s lives need to be imporved are: health/wellbeing, parenting, education, sociocultural context/diversity, and gender. Children’s health before and after birth can affect their lives and ability to learn, thus it needs to be improved. Similarly, parenting can have a positive of negative affect in children’s lives.…

Vygotsky’s (1978) sociocultural theory suggests that learning is a continual social process that never ends and how we view the world is shaped by symbolic tools like language. As a child’s cognitive function improves through social interaction, he or she learns at a social (inter-psychological) level and then at an individual level (intra-psychological), consequently expanding their Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) - a concept introduced but not fully developed by Vygotsky (1978). As children…

Sensorimotor Stage The infant in this video playing with a telephone appears to be in Piaget 's theory would categorized as, the sensorimotor stage, the time frame from birth to age two (Barrouillet, 2015). This sensorimotor stage is the first phase of cognitive development in Piaget’s theory (Barrouillet, 2015). Piaget, saw this phase as one of extraordinary advancement and evolution of cognitive growth (Barrouillet, 2015). Children observe and imitate as they test their senses and motor…

Cognitive theories have a multitude of sub-theories that typically explore motivation, decision making and other internal processes. Some of these sub theories include Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development, Theories of Intelligence and Cognitive Dissonance Theory. (Cherry, "Psychology Theories (Cognitive, Behavioral & More)”). While all of these theories cover different aspects of an individual’s cognition, Cognitive Dissonance is a theory that underscore’s many of Lance…

This essay will discuss major theories of human development and learning including Māori perspectives. These theories will then explain two critical points and how they are related to the theory. The chosen theorist beliefs will then be related to a role as an Early Childhood Educator while providing examples of how these theories apply to the development of infants, toddlers and/ or young children and their families. The differences between a Māori theorist and the two general perspectives…

Education Theories According to Bredekamp (2014), theories perform an explanation of how information and observations are organized to relate to one another (p.101). As children grow through time, their experiences and brain activity develop differently. Over the years research has shown that theories are in fact evolving overtime due to the changes in the way children learn. Theories that have been made often affect the way people, educators, parents, doctors behave. Some theories are in…

Child development and socialisation are crucial facets that refer to the psychological and emotional fluctuations that occur in human beings between birth and the end of adolescence, as the individual progresses from acclimatization to maximizing autonomy. Jean Piaget was the first psychologist to make a systematic study of cognitive development. The cognitive development was a progressive reorganization of mental processes as a result of biological maturation and environment experiences. [1]…

examine Julie’s moral development based on Kohlberg’s theory. Kohlberg’s theory of moral development focused on the reasoning that was used to answer moral dilemmas (Robbins, Chatterjee, & Canda, 2011). The theory of moral development attempts to comprehend an individual’s perspective that he or she has of his or her world (Linn, 2001). In fact, Kohlberg’s theory has been used by clinicians to assess their client’s social intelligence (Linn, 2001). Kohlberg theory of moral development has three…

Cognitive Development-Babies Name: Institution: Cognitive Development-Babies Piaget’s theory of cognitive development Piaget’s theory is guided by four assumptions on how children interact with their surroundings and how they construct information and knowledge: Children are active learners with the ability to construct knowledge from their surroundings; Accommodation and assimilation are the main ways through which children learn (Bruner, 1997); The interaction children have…

children and how they learn. Piaget has four stages of cognitive development, sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational and formal operational. Each stage has different outcomes and also has different ages for each stage. Piaget although a well respected theorist had some implications in his research of children. Piaget only studied his children and no others giving somewhat bias results to the tests and to the stages of cognitive development that Piaget created. Explain the process…