Piaget, Bandura, Bowbly and Vygotsky
Piaget, Bandura, Bowbly and Vygotsky
Development is about the customary way that a child acts (Bruce & Meggit, 2006). Child development is multidisciplinary. Several researches have put forward theories on the way children developed. These can be divided into the psychoanalytical theories, the learning theories, and the cognitive development theories. In this assignment, I will explain a number of these theories by showing what the theorists had developed.
Jean Piaget: (Cognitive-development theory)
Jean Piaget was a psychologist and was best known for his work on the development of intelligence in children. His studies have had a major impact on he fields of child psychology and education. One of the most important theories in his work was the Theory of Cognitive Development. Piaget believed that complex forms of thinking lie primarily in the child’s private explorations. The child’s learning is most effective when he discovers things by himself. However, this kind of learning is limited by the child’s age.
The understanding and interpretation of the experiences and the knowledge that children acquire is divided into mental units called schemas. The new information gathered either replaces or adds up to existing schemas (Class Notes, 2010-2011). In order to adapt to these new concepts a child must go through the process of adaptation. This includes the assimilation, accommodation and equilibrium of the information. Thus the child first experiences new events or activities through which he tries to make sense by integrate this data into existing schemas (assimilation). This is balanced with the process of accommodation, during which the child tries to adopt their previous knowledge to the new experiences. ( O’ Hagan & Curtis, 2003). According to Piaget, this is the basis to development change (Class Notes, 2008). As stated by Bee and Boyd 2004) equilibrium is then the process of bringing assimilation and accommodation into balance.
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Development is about the customary way that a child acts (Bruce & Meggit, 2006). Child development is multidisciplinary. Several researches have put forward theories on the way children developed. These can be divided into the psychoanalytical theories, the learning theories, and the cognitive development theories. In this assignment, I will explain a number of these theories by showing what the theorists had developed.
Jean Piaget: (Cognitive-development theory)
Jean Piaget was a psychologist and was best known for his work on the development of intelligence in children. His studies have had a major impact on he fields of child psychology and education. One of the most important theories in his work was the Theory of Cognitive Development. Piaget believed that complex forms of thinking lie primarily in the child’s private explorations. The child’s learning is most effective when he discovers things by himself. However, this kind of learning is limited by the child’s age.
The understanding and interpretation of the experiences and the knowledge that children acquire is divided into mental units called schemas. The new information gathered either replaces or adds up to existing schemas (Class Notes, 2010-2011). In order to adapt to these new concepts a child must go through the process of adaptation. This includes the assimilation, accommodation and equilibrium of the information. Thus the child first experiences new events or activities through which he tries to make sense by integrate this data into existing schemas (assimilation). This is balanced with the process of accommodation, during which the child tries to adopt their previous knowledge to the new experiences. ( O’ Hagan & Curtis, 2003). According to Piaget, this is the basis to development change (Class Notes, 2008). As stated by Bee and Boyd 2004) equilibrium is then the process of bringing assimilation and accommodation into balance.
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