Jean Piaget believed that child developments are biological, while Lev Vygotsky believed that child development comes is co-constructed using The Zone of Proximal Development and Scaffolding.
2- According to Piaget children can develop their cognitive skills by genetic, and exploring the environment around them. He specified that children’s knowledge have three process of adaptation Assimilation, when the child uses previous knowledge to understand new information. Accommodation is when the new information does not fit; the child would need to alter the new information to make it fit. And Equilibration, it occurs when the new information does not fit and disequilibrium occurs. The new schema must go through …show more content…
Preoperational: 2 -7 years old.
In this stage is when children’s language is developed. They are not able to manipulate information, they tend to use symbols and play pretending.
Concrete Operational: 7-11 years old.
In this stage children are able to think logically, but not abstractly and are able to think in reversible on objects they have experience of.
Formal Operational: 11-22 years old. Adolescents are able to reason and understand abstract ideas. They are able to think logically and find different solutions to a problem.
3- Lev Vygotsky believed that adults play an important role in children’s development. He believed that social interactions come before learning.
Mediated learning: is the interaction between student and teacher, what he considered the key for success and survival.
Cognitive apprenticeship: is when an adult teaches an immature learner a new skill.
Self-Talk: or Egocentric Speech-he believed that self-talk was a necessity for self-regulation.
Inner Speech: Vygotsky believed that taking to themselves allow them to plan, and anticipate the future, monitor their thinking and gaining