Running head: PIAGET & KOHLBERG RESEARCH ON THE COGNITIVE & MORAL DEVELOPMENT THEORIES OF JEAN PIAGET & LAWRENCE KOHLBERG DONNA O. O ’CONNOR INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF THE CARIBBEAN ABSTRACT The intention of this paper is to provide an overview of the psychological theories of Jean Piaget and Lawrence Kohlberg. While Piaget ’s perspective was psychological‚ Kholberg ’s viewpoint was psychological with emphasis placed on moral development and both theories will be compared and contrasted in
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Child and Adolescent Development PSY 104 6/26/2011 Introduction From birth through adolescence‚ a significant amount of developmental changes occur. Children grow and develop physically‚ cognitively and emotionally. Each individual aspect of development has an effect on the child as a whole. If a child struggles developmentally in any of the areas (physically‚ emotionally or cognitively)‚ it can affect one of the other areas of development as well. For example‚ if a child is underdeveloped
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personality development Personality theorists have long argued over the nature of personality in terms of how it is developed and how we come to understand the factors that influence said development. Numerous researchers and scientists have proposed theories and hypotheses in order to attempt to explain and elaborate on the role of learning in particular regarding the development of an individuals personality‚ however it must be noted prior to the continuation of this paper‚ that no one theory holds
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The Cognitive theory was developed by Piaget. In this theory Piaget insisted that children are not born with instinctive ideas of reality. Piaget viewed development as a process that helped humans relate to their environment. With this he felt that children actively create new ideas based on previous experiences or observation. Piaget believed that we gained knowledge through active exploration that takes the form scheme. A scheme is a cognitive structure or organized patter of action that people
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Cognitive Development Thronging centuries‚ arguments about how information and knowledge be acquired‚ percept and organized tend to be settled. Cognitive process involves not only mental process but also thinking and knowing (Oakley.L‚(2004). The word cognition can be defined as the process of learning or knowing information. This easy is going to explain the development of cognitive approach to educational psychology‚ Piaget’s theory of cognitive development and the educational implication of Piaget’s
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Vygotsky’s Cognitive Development Theory Lev Vygotsky theorized that an individual’s psychological development is shaped by his/her historical and social environment. In contrast to Piaget’s developmental theory which emphasizes one’s genetic inner substance for cognitive development‚ Vygotsky’s model gave central focus to social interaction and the structuring power of content in the learning process. In accordance with locating the external aspects of the major element of human development‚ he highlighted
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Discuss Piaget’s theory of Cognitive Development Cognitive Development can be defined as the development of thought processes. This includes thinking‚ concept understanding‚ problem solving‚ and decision making and remembering from childhood on to adulthood. There are two theories of Cognitive development that offer us two different ways of understanding it. The first is called Domain general. This theory states that one line of development determines all of the changes in a child’s intellectual
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ABSTRACT The study identified the effect of early childhood education experience on the academic performance of primary school children. The research instrument used was the school continuous assessment records. Three hypotheses were formulated and tested using z-test statistics‚ at 0.05 level of significance. The study revealed that there is a significant difference between pupils who had pre-primary education and those without in their academic performances-cognitive ability‚ social skills
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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
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I will apply Vygotsky’s theory of development to make changes to my current curriculum. Vygotsky believed that social and cultural environments affect the way people think and their cognitive development. He believes that children have a curiosity to experiment with their environment that contributes to their cognitive development‚ but he think the most important factor is social interaction. When kids are younger this interaction is between their families and the people close to them‚ but as they
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