Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development Jean Piaget (1896-1980) was one of the most influential researchers in the area of developmental psychology during the 20th century. Piaget originally trained in the areas of biology and philosophy and considered himself a "genetic epistemologist." He was mainly interested in the biological influences on "how we come to know." He believed that what distinguishes human beings from other animals is our ability to do "abstract symbolic reasoning." Piaget’s views
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1. Domains of learning Bloom’s taxonomy (cited in Petty 1998) provides the basis for classifying learning into domains and thus highlights learning outcomes should be hierarchical and concerned with different forms of learning. The cognitive domain is concerned with knowledge and knowing‚ the psychomotor domain is concerned with physical skills and the affective domain concerns itself with attention‚ awareness‚ moral‚ aesthetic and other attitudes opinions or values. Reece and Walker (2009)
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Moral Development through Piagets Theory and the Social Learning Theory Piaget (1932) developed a major theory based on children’s cognitive methodology when approaching particular moral situations; using the game of marbles and moral stories/dilemmas to evaluate the moral development a child. In his evaluation he categorised children into three stages of moral development i.e. pre-moral (0-5yrs)‚ Moral Realism (5-8/9yrs)‚ Moral Relativism (+9yrs). Concluding that children under five didn’t consider
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Learning Theories There are many different types of learning theories that are used to help guide individuals through the teaching and or learning process. It has been developed that individuals develop through stages of learning until he or she can reason logically on their own. The two learning theories this paper will focus on is the conditions of learning theory originated by Robert Gagne and the model of discovery learning originated by Jerome Bruner. Gagne’s theory recognizes that there
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Social Cognitive Theory Social Cognitive Theory Albert Bandura’s social cognitive theory is the framework for learning‚ based on the relationship between behavior‚ personal factors‚ and factors in the environment (Institute for Dynamic Educational Advance). Factors for social cognitive theory are based on a social or physical environment. Social environments encompass friends‚ colleagues‚ and family. Physical environments could run the gamut as vast as a particular food
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Three Theories of Cognitive Development The Swiss psychologist and philosopher Jean Piaget (1896-1980) is well-known for his work towards the cognitive sciences. Arguably one of his most important contributions involves his theory of cognitive development. In this theory‚ thinking progresses through four distinct stages between infancy and adulthood. Similar in scope to Piaget’s theory is Information Processing‚ in which human thinking is based on both mental hardware and mental software (Kail
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Cognitive development is the development of thought processes‚ including remembering‚ problem solving‚ and decision-making‚ from childhood through adolescence to adulthood. Historically‚ the cognitive development of children has been studied in a variety of ways. The oldest is through intelligence tests. An example of this is the Stanford Binet Intelligence Quotient test. IQ scoring is based on the concept of "mental age‚" according to which the scores of a child of average intelligence match
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between the psychosocial developmental perspectives of behaviorism and cognitive theory. Cognitive concerns itself with the thought process behind behavior‚ whereas behavior concerns its self with observable behavior. Cognitive works with stuff like decision making and memories. Behaviorism says that we learn by “trial and error” that certain actions are associated with certain consequences. The only two things that cognitive and behaviorism have in common is they both deal with behavior but that’s
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More particularly‚ Jean Piaget and Erik Erikson were prominent theorists who had an immense impact on psychosocial development and early childhood education. Both theorists studied and focused on diverse‚ yet particular developmental stages. Erik Erikson’s assumptions involved the eight stages of psychosocial development. Moreover‚ his theory concentrates and describes the developmental stages across the lifespan. Though Erikson’s theory was developed years after Piaget’s theory‚ Erikson also fixated
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Bandura’s social cognitive theory (SCT)‚ is defined as a cognitively oriented learning theory that emphasizes observational learning in determining of behavior. SCT is a stem from the social learning theory (SLT)‚ with a back round dating back to the late 1800’s.2 Bandura presented the SCT with his book: Social Foundation of thought and action: A social Cognitive Theory.2 SCT has shown children acquire much information through observational learning. Bandura focuses on: Observational Learning‚ Reciprocal
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