The Piagetian Model. There is little argument that while not perfect, Piaget’s theories have had a profound impact on the field of cognitive development. Provide an analysis of his model as well as the challenges to it.…
Jean Piaget is famous for his learning theories based on different stages in the development of children 's intelligence. Piaget (1896-1980) was a biologist who originally studied molluscs (publishing twenty scientific papers on them by the time he…
Psychologists study human behaviors through exploring an individual’s experiences, personality traits, and through the categorization of each into a specific or set of disorders (Hothersall, 2003). Early psychologists studying human behavior addressed its vast nature of human behavior yet failed to consider the circumstance(s) that contributed to the behavior even though they acknowledged nature versus nurture. An example of this is Jean Piaget’s cognitive theory, which examined the behavior of children but failed to fully acknowledge the impact of the adult on this behavior. Instead he theorized that children learn on their own without the intervention of older children or adults and that children are intrinsically, or internally, motivated…
JEAN PIAGET was born in Switzerland. He was a zoologist before developing an interest in philosophy, in particular the branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge – ‘epistemology’. He studied clinical psychology at a Paris university and pursued his interest in philosophy further. While in Paris, Piaget worked on the standardization of intelligence tests. His role was to record the correct responses of children but during this time he became much more interested in the mistakes that children made. Piaget came to believe that by studying children’s errors it could provide an insight into their cognitive processes.…
Born in Switzerland in 1896, Jean Piaget (The Open University, 2006b) is known as one of the most influential contributors in the field of developmental psychology. His theory of cognitive development originated from a series of observations conducted in 1920, while working as a translator of intelligence tests in Alfred Binet 's laboratory. Noticing that children tended to give systematic wrong answers, he suggested that these errors revealed a fundamental, qualitative difference in children 's cognitive abilities, and found confirmation of this hypothesis in observations of his own children. Is this relevant? It…
operational stage of Piaget’s theory. He questions why he is so obsessed and fascinated with…
Jean Piaget is known for his research in developmental psychology. He studied under C. G. Jung and Eugen Bleuler. He was involved in the administration of intelligence tests to children and became interested in the types of mistakes children of various ages were likely to make. Piaget began to study the reasoning processes of children at various ages. Piaget theorized that cognitive development proceeds in four genetically determined stages that always follow the same sequential order.…
The purpose of this study was for experimental psychologists to use the same principles of division through out the process, as it remains a representation of modern psychology as the exact counterpart that is parallel to modern biology. Other determines factors that ware of importance were the scope and the divisions of psychological science in consistence with the nature and number of structural elements that consist in the mind. It was determined that Biology, which is the science of living things, is made up of three mutually interdependent sciences which are morphology, physiology and ontogeny that required the necessary classification their divisions as the counterpart is distinguished.…
• Piaget, J and Inhelder, B (1969) The Psychology of the Child. New York: Basic Books.…
Jean Piaget has been a strong influence on the understanding of children’s development and his work “identified particular stages of cognitive development which continues to influence how we work with children” (Meggitt, Walker, 2004, pg109). Piaget was a Swiss psychologist born August 1896. He published his first paper when he was aged 10 and received a Ph.D. of natural sciences aged 22. Piaget published many books and articles including The Psychology of Intelligence and “The Grasp of Consciousness” (www.muskingum.edu). He studied children’s thinking and…
Jean Piaget, Erik Erikson and Lawrence Kohlberg are some of theorists who ventured in the field of Psychology, specifically in human development. Consequently, using Thomas’s standard of judgment, this paper aims to weigh, compare and evaluate the assumptions and claims of these proponents.…
(2-7 years)During this stage, young children are able to think about things symbolically. Their language use becomes more mature. They also develop memory and imagination, which allows them to understand the difference between past and future, and engage in make-believe. The vocabulary of a child is also expanded and developed during this stage. Pre-operational children are usually 'ego centric', which means that they are only able to contemplate things from their own point of view, and imagine that everyone shares…
References: Boundless. “Piaget 's Theory of Cognitive Development.” Boundless Psychology. Boundless, 27 Jun. 2014. Retrieved 05 Apr. 2015 from https://www.boundless.com/psychology/textbooks/boundless-psychology-textbook/human-development-14/theories-of-human-development-70/piaget-s-theory-of-cognitive-development-270-12805/…
"The earliest origins of psychology can be traced back several centuries to the writing of the great philosophers. More than two thousand years ago, the Greek philosopher Aristotle wrote extensively about topics like sleep, dreams, the senses, and memory. He also described the traits and dispositions of different animals. Many of Aristotle's ideas remained influential until the beginnings of modern science in the seventeenth century. At that time, Rene Descartes proposed a doctrine called interactive dualism- the idea that mind and body were separate entities that interact to produce sensations, emotions and other conscious experiences. Today, psychologists continue to debate the relationship between mental activity and the brain. Philosopher's also laid the groundwork for another issue that would become central to psychology- the nature- nurture issue. For centuries, philosopher debated which was more important: the born nature of the individual or the environmental influences that nurture the individual. Psychologists continue to focus on the question, which today is usually framed in terms of heredity versus the environment. Such philosophical discussions influenced the topics that would be considered in psychology. But early philosophers could advance the understanding of human behavior on to certain. Their methods were limited to intuition, observation and logic. The eventual emergence of psychology as a science hinged on advances in the other sciences, particularly physiology. Physiology is a branch of biology that studies the functions and parts of living organisms, including humans. In the 1600's physiologists were becoming interested in the human brain and its relations to behavior. By the early 1700s, tit was discovered that damage to one side of the brain produced loss of function in the opposite side of the body. By the early 1800s, the idea that different brain areas were related to different behavioral functions was being vigorously debate.…
Piaget’s theory develops different ideas of how children attain knowledge. He sees children as active thinking people. Therefore, children are usually pursuing knowledge. This is considered as a natural characteristic that defines the child. The theory leads to Piaget’s concerned with the growth of intelligence of a child. For Piaget, children build knowledge based on their personal interpretation of the world at the different stages of their life that range from infancy, childhood and adolescence.…