Development
Educational Psychology
Development
27 October 2013
Jean Piaget was an influential psychologist who created the Theory of Cognitive Development, which consisted of four stages. He believed that when humans are in their infancy, childhood, and adolescence, they try to understand the world through experiments. During cognitive development, children are little scientists that create experiments and conclusions on how to adapt to the world. By the time children become adults, they will be able to put into affect everything they have learned, and utilize the skills they need to live in this world. Assimilation is one of the methods in Piaget’s stages. Assimilation does not require a great deal of adjustment. Through the process of assimilation, new information is added to our existing knowledge base. As an illustration, in the situation that the young child is trying to understand why a “rock is sweating,” according to Piaget, the child has past experience of going outside in warm temperatures and perspiring. This perspiration relates the little boy to the water droplets on the rock. Ms. Ortega’s understanding of this observation can also relate her experience of going outside in the warm temperatures and perspiring.
Lev Vygotsky was a psychologist who based his theory of cognitive development on social aspects, such as language and social interaction. He theorized that children develop gradually, instead of in stages as suggested by Piaget. For instance, when the young child goes to the puzzle center and picks out a puzzle to construct, according to Vygotsky’s idea, having the child speak out loud to himself will help him prioritize the arrangement of the puzzle. Talking to oneself is known as self-talk, and children use it to walk themselves through difficult tasks. Ms. Ortega can quietly listen to the child constructing the puzzle to mentally note the procedure the child has decided to take to accomplish the goal. Lawrence Kohlberg
Development
27 October 2013
Jean Piaget was an influential psychologist who created the Theory of Cognitive Development, which consisted of four stages. He believed that when humans are in their infancy, childhood, and adolescence, they try to understand the world through experiments. During cognitive development, children are little scientists that create experiments and conclusions on how to adapt to the world. By the time children become adults, they will be able to put into affect everything they have learned, and utilize the skills they need to live in this world. Assimilation is one of the methods in Piaget’s stages. Assimilation does not require a great deal of adjustment. Through the process of assimilation, new information is added to our existing knowledge base. As an illustration, in the situation that the young child is trying to understand why a “rock is sweating,” according to Piaget, the child has past experience of going outside in warm temperatures and perspiring. This perspiration relates the little boy to the water droplets on the rock. Ms. Ortega’s understanding of this observation can also relate her experience of going outside in the warm temperatures and perspiring.
Lev Vygotsky was a psychologist who based his theory of cognitive development on social aspects, such as language and social interaction. He theorized that children develop gradually, instead of in stages as suggested by Piaget. For instance, when the young child goes to the puzzle center and picks out a puzzle to construct, according to Vygotsky’s idea, having the child speak out loud to himself will help him prioritize the arrangement of the puzzle. Talking to oneself is known as self-talk, and children use it to walk themselves through difficult tasks. Ms. Ortega can quietly listen to the child constructing the puzzle to mentally note the procedure the child has decided to take to accomplish the goal. Lawrence Kohlberg