Theories of Cognitive Development: An insight to the theories of Piaget‚ Information-processing and Vygotsky How do we learn? How do we grow? Over the years‚ psychologists have studied to great lengths the processes that humans go through as they progress from infancy to adulthood. Several theories have emerged over time with three prominent ones. Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky produced two important and distinct theories. Another important theory‚ the information-processing theory‚ presents
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A theorist called Lev Vygotsky looked and studied how children play and learn he believed that “children are active in their learning” Tassoni 2007:70. Vygotsky believed that children’s play and learning is similar to scaffolding‚ by this he meant that children should be helped and guided but still have the choice to make their own decisions to some extent‚ Vygotsky theory enables practitioners to see how a child learn without to much encouragement‚ this allows us to see a child’s preferred learning
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Jean Piaget (1896-1980) His view of how children’s minds work and develop has been enormously influential‚ particularly in educational theory. His particular insight was the role of maturation in children’s increasing capacity to understand their world: they cannot undertake certain tasks until they are psychologically mature enough to do so. He proposed that children’s thinking does not develop entirely smoothly: instead‚ there are certain points at which it “takes off” and moves into completely
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Lev Vygotsky (November 17‚ 1896 – June 11‚ 1394) was a Russian psychologist. Vygotsky was a pioneering psychologist and his major works span six separate volumes‚ written over roughly 10 years‚ from Psychology of Art (1925) to Thought and Language [or Thinking and Speech] (1934). Vygotsky ’s interests in the fields of developmental psychology‚ child development‚ and education were extremely diverse. Vygotsky ’s theories stress the fundamental role of social interaction in the development
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Jean Piaget was a cognitive scientist who was academically trained in biology. He was hired to validate a standardised test of intelligence and from this became very interested in human thought. He was employed to take the age of which children answered each question correctly perfecting the norms for the IQ test. Although the wrong answers took Piagets attention and came to a conclusion that the way children think is a lot more revealing than what they know. Piaget used the methods of scientific
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Jean Piaget Andrea Smith ECE 353 Instructor Raimondi July 1‚ 2013 Jean Piaget Stage Theory Jean Piaget was a well-known developmental theorist. He attempted to answer the question “how doe knowledge evolve?” He was interested in intelligence. Piaget viewed intelligence as the ability to adapt to all aspects of reality. He also believed that within a person’s lifetime‚ intelligence evolves through a series of qualitatively distinct stages. Jean Piaget believed that all children progress through
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Lev Vygotsky was known as the creator of an original branch of psychology in the Soviet union. He is also known for writing many books on psychology. In the first part of my paper‚ I will begin telling you how young Vygotsky got into psychology for the first time. Second‚ I will talk about his theories and thesis’s that change the psychological world forever. Last‚ I will tell you how you can use his methods in your own classroom. Since Vygotsky is not that well known‚ many people pass on his
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Jean Piaget was born in Neuchâtel‚ Switzerland on August 9‚ 1896. He was the first child of Arthur and Rebecca Piaget. Jean began showing an interest in the natural sciences at a very early age. By age 11‚ he had already started his career as a researcher by writing a short paper on an albino sparrow. He was also very interested in mollusks and by the time he was a teen‚ his papers on mollusks were being widely published. He continued to study the natural sciences and received his Ph.D. in Zoology
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Jean Piaget. After receiving his doctoral degree at age 22‚ Jean Piaget began a career that would have a profound impact on both psychology and education. Through his work with Alfred Binet. Piaget developed an interest in the intellectual development of children. Based upon his observations‚ he concluded that children are not less intelligent than adults‚ they simply think differently. Albert Einstein called Piaget’s discovery "so simple only a genius could have thought of it." Piaget created
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the way that individuals progress through stages. The stages are sequential and you must understand all the concepts in one stage before you progress to the next. You have just engaged in assimilation! This is a key concept of Piaget’s theory. Piaget believes that when we are confronted with new information we need to adapt.
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