EYT#2 Psy150-OB Piaget: The Preoperational Child I worked with a six year old little girl named Lyla. When I asked Lyla “What holds the sun up in the sky?”‚ she replied‚ “nothing.” When I asked her “Why do trees have leaves?”‚ she replied‚ “I don’t know.” When I asked Lyla “Why does it rain?”‚ she replied‚ “So we can have water‚ duh!”. In the conservation of liquid task‚ I place two clear solo cups on a counter and I filled them equally with fruit punch‚ I had a clear empty vase on
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development were Jean Piaget and Erikson. They both formed very important theories as to the thought development throughout the lifespan. Although‚ their theories were similar in a way‚ they were very much different. The validity of their theories in reference to today’s children is questionable but very much still applicable. Jean Piaget believed in a stage theory of development where people undergo distinctive revolutions in their thought processes‚ producing four discrete stages that emerge as they
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on‚ I found the kids with appropriate ages. One kid was from pre-operational stage who was 3 years old and another was from concrete stage who was 7 years old. I asked them several question while experimenting the things. Both kids were tested at different time period at different place but the questions which were supposed to ask them were the same. First of all‚ I asked a kid from Piaget’s concrete operational stage. The question was like; “What makes the clouds move?” A kid from concrete operation
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In comparing both Piaget and Vygotsky‚ both psychologist feel that expert teachers should help students with developing cognitive skills. Both also feel that a child should be pushed past the limit of which their cognitive ability remains to create a higher level of thinking. By doing this teachers can understand the thought process of the student and provide means to fix the misconception. Piaget explained that teachers should build carefully on what students already know and integrate their new
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Piaget vs. Vygotsky Both Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky have had a huge impact on learning and teaching methods. Although they have different views on how children learn‚ they both suggest helpful methods of teaching. Piaget and Vygotsky both focus on the idea of constructivism. Constructivist theories believe learning includes real-world situations‚ language‚ interaction‚ and collaboration with others. Piaget believed in cognitive constructivism and Vygotsky believed in social constructivism. They
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Jean Piaget’s theory of cognitive development and Len Vygotsky’s sociocultural perspective have played critical roles in educational psychology. Both of these major frameworks will be analyzed and compared. From these two different standpoints‚ it will be illustated how a particular concept or cognitive skill can be taught. Russian psychologist Len Semenovich Vygotsky
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Vygotsky and Piaget had several similarities and differences on the way they viewed certain developmental concepts. One of the most common was the study of cognitive development. However‚ the way each of them viewed the importance of changing factors is where they varied. While Vygotsky and Piaget both established the significance of social interactions in cognitive development‚ Vygostsky was the one who thought the most accommodating relations were those with peers. He believed that language develops
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Moral developmental psychology research focuses on questions of origins and change in morality across the lifespan. Kohlberg Stages of Moral Development • Stage 1. Obedience and Punishment Orientation. The child/individual is good in order to avoid being punished. If a person is punished they must have done wrong. • Stage 2. Individualism and Exchange. At this stage children recognize that there is not just one right view that is handed down by the authorities. Different individuals have different
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Cognitive development is how we understanding the world around us. There are stages that have been clinically proven to be the average for children by theorists Piaget and Vygotsky. Jean Piaget theories focus on the stages of intellectual development through assimilation and accommodation. While Lev Vygotsky focused on the sociocultural approach to cognitive development. No single principle can account for development and
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Community College Abstract Piaget believed everyone had to go through each stage of development. Although some kids may show characteristics of more than one stage at a time‚ he was certain that cognitive development always followed the sequence of the stages‚ stages cannot be skipped‚ and each stage is marked by new intellectual abilities and more complex understandings of the world. With this experiment I will prove how each toy can improve‚ or dismantle each stage for children. While in the toy
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