Jean Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory
Jean Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory is based on that people where not born to be a certain way, but that the experiences from their childhood developed over time.
A criminal doesn’t just wake one day and say they are going to be criminals. This decision stems from their earlier experiences in life. There is a theorist Jean Piaget that believed that children where not born this way, but that thinking patterns changed as they grew up. Piaget believed that children are naturally curious. Piaget proposed the Cognitive Development Perspective that has four stages: Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete Operational, and Formal Operational. Within these stages there were three changes that needed to be met. The first is the ability to create organized patterns of behavior that a person uses to think about and act in a situation. Secondly is how they adapt new information into a current situation or makes changes to a current situation and thirdly equilibration, which is the need to restore the balance of their thinking.
The Sensorimotor stage, based on the child’s birth to approximately 24 months of age, is based on six phases. Phase 1, the child knows nothing; everything they do is by reflux. Phase 2, is from one month to four months, is called the primary circular reaction when the child controls their own body. Phase 3, is from four months to eight months, this is called the secondary circular reaction, when the child shows interest to the world outside of their own bodies, like the noise of a rattle. Phase 4, is from eight months to twelve months, this is the beginning of the “means” to an “end” phase, when the child purposely does what he or she wants, for example if a parent puts the rattle under the blanket the child will move the blanket to play with the rattle. Phase 5, is from twelve months to eighteen months, called the tertiary circular reaction, when the child begins to experiment with objects, for example he or she may shake
A criminal doesn’t just wake one day and say they are going to be criminals. This decision stems from their earlier experiences in life. There is a theorist Jean Piaget that believed that children where not born this way, but that thinking patterns changed as they grew up. Piaget believed that children are naturally curious. Piaget proposed the Cognitive Development Perspective that has four stages: Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete Operational, and Formal Operational. Within these stages there were three changes that needed to be met. The first is the ability to create organized patterns of behavior that a person uses to think about and act in a situation. Secondly is how they adapt new information into a current situation or makes changes to a current situation and thirdly equilibration, which is the need to restore the balance of their thinking.
The Sensorimotor stage, based on the child’s birth to approximately 24 months of age, is based on six phases. Phase 1, the child knows nothing; everything they do is by reflux. Phase 2, is from one month to four months, is called the primary circular reaction when the child controls their own body. Phase 3, is from four months to eight months, this is called the secondary circular reaction, when the child shows interest to the world outside of their own bodies, like the noise of a rattle. Phase 4, is from eight months to twelve months, this is the beginning of the “means” to an “end” phase, when the child purposely does what he or she wants, for example if a parent puts the rattle under the blanket the child will move the blanket to play with the rattle. Phase 5, is from twelve months to eighteen months, called the tertiary circular reaction, when the child begins to experiment with objects, for example he or she may shake