functionalism
02/19/2014
Cognitive Theories
Cognitive Theorists believe that the way we think and assume effect how we relate and react to the world. A child adapts to his environment for example if a babies mom introduces breast feeding from birth, when her breast eventually becomes chapped and she needs to start using the bottle this will create a disequilibrium. The bottle is new to the baby so the baby has to use assimilation by adapting to sucking and swallowing from the bottle like he or she does with mom’s breast. Then if the baby begins to cry for mom and the mom cannot make a bottle right away, (creating another disequilibrium) she will then introduce the baby to a binky. When mom gives the baby the binky, that forces the baby to now make an accommodation this time by adapting to now just sucking the binky without being able to swallow, thus recreating a new equilibrium. Piaget’s four stages of development are sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational. The sensorimotor stage starts at birth and ends at 2 years. In this stage babies begin to realize objects still exist even after it leaves your sight. Babies learn this from playing games like peek-a-boo. The preoperational stage starts from 2-6 years old. This is the stage before you can mentally act, you learn using symbolic language such as placing names with things and counting numbers with hands. The concrete operational stage is from 6-11 years old. This is the stage where logic skills develop and children base their thinking off of the five senses. For example, if there are two cups that have a different shape but are the same volume a child should be able to understand that at this age. The formal operational stage lasts from 12 years to adulthood. In this stage young adults and adults develop their ability to think theoretically. For example, teens begin to hate their parents if they can’t stay out past a certain time because they are thinking of their hypothetical
Cognitive Theories
Cognitive Theorists believe that the way we think and assume effect how we relate and react to the world. A child adapts to his environment for example if a babies mom introduces breast feeding from birth, when her breast eventually becomes chapped and she needs to start using the bottle this will create a disequilibrium. The bottle is new to the baby so the baby has to use assimilation by adapting to sucking and swallowing from the bottle like he or she does with mom’s breast. Then if the baby begins to cry for mom and the mom cannot make a bottle right away, (creating another disequilibrium) she will then introduce the baby to a binky. When mom gives the baby the binky, that forces the baby to now make an accommodation this time by adapting to now just sucking the binky without being able to swallow, thus recreating a new equilibrium. Piaget’s four stages of development are sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational. The sensorimotor stage starts at birth and ends at 2 years. In this stage babies begin to realize objects still exist even after it leaves your sight. Babies learn this from playing games like peek-a-boo. The preoperational stage starts from 2-6 years old. This is the stage before you can mentally act, you learn using symbolic language such as placing names with things and counting numbers with hands. The concrete operational stage is from 6-11 years old. This is the stage where logic skills develop and children base their thinking off of the five senses. For example, if there are two cups that have a different shape but are the same volume a child should be able to understand that at this age. The formal operational stage lasts from 12 years to adulthood. In this stage young adults and adults develop their ability to think theoretically. For example, teens begin to hate their parents if they can’t stay out past a certain time because they are thinking of their hypothetical