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Cognitive development is an intellectual growth from infancy to adulthood. Jean Piaget (1896-1980), a Swiss psychologist, was one of the most important and influential researchers in the field of developmental psychology throughout the 20th century. Piaget was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, on August 9, 1896. His father, Arthur Piaget, was a professor of medieval literature with an interest in local history. His mother, Rebecca Jackson, was intelligent and energetic. The oldest child, he was very independent and took an early interest in nature. He published his first paper when he was ten - a one page account of his sighting of an albino sparrow.Piaget was the first to develop
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Running head: A DELVE INTO THE MAN BEHIND COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT 1
A Delve into the Man Behind Cognitive Development
A Biography of the Great Jean Piaget
Abel Bunn
Cirillo — D.C. PSYC-2301
April 26th, 2019
A DELVE INTO THE MAN BEHIND COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT 2
Abstract
This paper biographies Jean Piaget, a Swiss psychologist who was renowned for his immense
alms to the field of psychology, especially when concerning his emphasis on the adequate
growth and proper education of children. He was most well known for his theory of cognitive
development which has long since been utilized in many a classroom and educational program to
ensure and foster constructive and fruitful youths who would be
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multidisciplinary speaks to the acknowledgment that it takes in excess of a clinician to assess somebody's improvement. Advancement happens organically, intellectually, and socially, and consequently ought to be assessed likewise with a few experts from their separate field. Plastic is an understanding that people can be formed similarly as plastic. Our qualities can be modified, while we as people remain consistent with ourselves. ( Berger, 2016, p. 9-23)
There are many theories related to human growth and development. However, I will only focus on three of them. They include the theory of cognitive development, psychosexual development, and psychosocial stages of development. Jean Piaget
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brain.
Paige Adams
Cognitive approach Behaviourist
approach
Social learning theory
Views on
development
Stage theories within
the cognitive
approach have
contributed to our
understanding of child
development, for
example, as part of
their development
children form
increasingly complex
concepts (schema) as
they get older.
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coherent stage for
theories of
development but
instead see the
processes that
underpin learning as
continuous occurring
at any stage.
Does not offer a
coherent stage for
theories of
development but
instead see the
processes that
underpin learning as
continuous occurring
at any stage.
Nature vs nurture Recognises that many
of our information
processing
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) studied age and IQ matched individuals with ASD, ADHD and typical development, finding distinct executive function profiles for ADHD and ASD. Theory of executive dysfunction also fails to explain the ‘islets of ability’ found in some individuals with autism.
The weak central coherence theory of autism was proposed as an explanation for such strengths (Frith & Happe, 1994). Central coherence refers to an individual’s ability to derive overall meaning or ‘see the big picture’ (i.e. global information processing). Individuals with autism are hypothesized to have weak central coherence and a cognitive bias for details at the expense of meaning. Numerous studies have investigated this; Firth
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Psych 201: Chapter 2 Notes: Cognitive and Language Development
Development: the pattern of biological, cognitive, and socioemotional changes that continue through the lifespan.
Biological processes and genetic inheritance: Development of the brain, gains in height and weight, changes in motor skills, and puberty’s own hormonal changes.
Cognitive processes: changes in the child’s thinking, etc.
Socioemotional processes: changes in the child’s relationships….
Processes are intertwined. For Example, a child’s smile response to parent’s touch depends on all processes for different reasons.
Infancy : birth to 18-24 months.
Activities include: language development , symbolic thought, sensorimotor
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would be an adult who represents the cultural background of the child (Rathus, 2013). In order to apply the ZPD theory, teachers can observe children carefully and plan more difficult curriculum to inspire children’s abilities by stretching the competence of children (Mooney, 2013). Pairing up with other children who can learn from each other would also be helpful in this case because children’s cognitive development is not completely restricted by their physical development, and their social surroundings and interactions may also have a beneficial effect (Mooney, 2013). In the example of Margaret hammering the nails (Mooney, 2013), the educator Judy carefully evaluated the ZPD of Margaret
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Childhood Trauma and Intelligence 1
Childhood Trauma and Intelligence
College of Charleston
Childhood Trauma and Intelligence 2
Childhood Trauma and Intelligence
During early years of life, development is rapid. A child progresses from helpless
newborn to a walking, talking child with independent ideas and opinions. While the changes on
the outside are the most obvious, there are also significant developments in the brain. Studies
suggest that stress experienced early in life has detrimental consequences on brain development,
including brain regions involved in cognitive function. Exposure to trauma in early childhood
can affect brain development but how does early exposure to
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Carol's Theory
Hierarchical theory is, in essence, a compromise between the two views of
intelligence- general versus distinct abilities
Fluid Intelligence §
Crystallized Intelligence §
General Memory and Learning §
Broad Visual Perception §
Broad Auditory Perception §
Broad Retrieval Ability §
Broad Cognitive Speediness §
Processing Speed §
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Creative Thinking
Divergent Thinking •
Fluency •
Flexibility •
Originality •
Elaboration •
Measuring Intelligence
Simone-Binet Scale
Their approach was to select tasks that French children of different ages
ought to be able to do so
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Introduced the concept of mental age ○
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Terman and the development of IQ
American population
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plans should be focused around the level of cognitive development. For example, if the students are in the concrete operational stage, they need “manipulatives” to help them understand more abstract ideas. Thus, the lesson plan should involve hands on activities that has concrete objects to aid understanding and enhance learning.
Piaget’s theory can be applied to when and how a child should be taught. Piaget’s theory is very student centred and the role of the teacher is as the facilitator, this basically means that the teacher should not ‘spoon feed’ the pupil the information but help them by assessing the level they are at and then setting suitable tasks for example giving children small
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Theory of Informal Social Control
· Interactional Theory
What is a Theory?
· A set of interrelated concepts, definitions, & propositions that specify relations among concepts
· Purpose is to explain and/or predict phenomena
· Developmental theories: One type of theory to explain crime
· Suggests delinquency/crime careers develop and change over time
Farrington: Integrated Cognitive Antisocial Potential (ICAP) Theory
· Levels of AP vary over time
· Short-term AP can turn into long-term AP over time
· Cognition
· Process that turns AP into actual behavior
· Desistance occurs according to a person’s level of AP
· Is related to both social and individual reasons
Moffitt: Dual-Pathway Theory
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, “systematic deficits for bilingual participants, particularly in semantic fluency conditions even if responses can be provided in either language” (Bialystok, 2012). This shows that it was more difficult for bilingual children to retrieve their words.
With the coming of age, brings new development, science breakthrough, and greater debate. Groups of scientists, authors, linguists, and researchers have begun to debunk old theory and refuse to believe that bilingualism is a negative effect on a child’s cognitive development. In fact, they go on to retrieve evidence and new theories that pronounce bilingualism in childhood to be a huge benefit. Researchers are revealing that the previous studies
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The effects of cognitive performance of manipulated on a short period exercise. The following experiment is to warrant a clear understanding whether or not participants will work better after a physical activity component after being subjected to the Arousal Theory to enhance their cognitive performance. The Arousal Theory suggests that arousal of stimuli can act as a motivator towards or against cognitive performance. The participants for this experiment were asked to partake in two tasks to determine whether or not our hypothesis proved accurate, by doing so we manipulated two variables; the independent variable, the duration of an exercise task, against the dependent variable; a
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method involves an individual writing an autobiographical sketch in third person and then evaluating and developing the autobiographical as new experiences take place. This allows the individual to analyse themselves in previous events and determine how to behave in future occurring events.
Personal construct theory and its ideas of constructs differ from many approaches. The approach in which I have found it contrasts the most is the cognitive approach. In this approach there are ideologies such as the theory of cognitive development which was proposed by Piaget. Piaget suggests that behaviour and the mental model of the world is developed through biological maturation and environmental
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Piaget's theory of cognitive development consists of various stages, which happen at various times of a young person's life. The stage of life for an adolescent, between the ages of twelve to sixteen, is known as the formal operational stage. This stage is the fourth and final stage of cognitive development. "Formal operational thinkers can recognize and identify a problem. They can state several alternative hypotheses, execute procedures to collect information about the problems to be studied, and test the hypotheses." (Lin, 2002). Prior to adolescence thought is concentrated on much less complex thoughts.During this stage they acquire a method of thinking called hypothetical-deductive
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QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH1
Qualitative and Quantitative Research
Amelia Garcia
Grand Canyon University:PCN-540
April 5, 2017
Qualitative and Quantitative Research
In the article The Career Development of Mexican American Adolescent Women: A Test of Social Cognitive Career Theory, review of literature found inconsistencies between educational and vocational accomplishments and ambitions in Mexican American women.The investigator's chose 364 senior high school Mexican American adolescent females to support the influence of specific and social cognitive variables on vocational aspirations, objectives, stature, and traditionalism (Flores & O’Brien, 2002). The ground for the study
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IDC4U2: UNIT 1-2 TEST REVIEW
Physiological: having to do with an organism’s physical processes
Cognitive: having to do with an organism’s thinking and understanding
Psychiatry: a branch of medicine that deals with mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders
Psychoanalyst: a psychologist who studies how unconscious motives and conflicts determine human
behavior
4 Goals of Psychology: psychologists seek to do four things—describe, explain, predict, and influence
behavior
Description: to describe or gather information about the behavior being studied and to present what is
known
Explanation: Such explanations can be called psychological principles—generally valid ideas about
behavior
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Task 2: Written Assignment
The Vygotskian theory of sociocultural development influence on the maturation of children and adolescence alike, is one to be acknowledged for its continued relativity to modern contexts. Research would suggest that Vygotsky’s concepts of assisted learning otherwise understood as scaffolding, in collaboration with a child’s zone of proximal development is what supports a child to reach their full potential within a learning environment.
Vygotsky theorised that cultural tools both tangible and intangible were vital to a child’s development. He believed that in order to achieve the best learning experience a child must be taught to use different tangible tools such
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children and young adults, makes me look back at the cognitive development theory.The cognitive development theory is based around the idea that the development of a person's thought process is influenced by how we understand and interact with the world (Wood, 2011). This being true, television commercials like this one are poison to minds of children, male and female adults, and society as a whole. Representing women in this way creates a negative stereotype that affects males and females, alike, because it allows for this way of thinking to perpetuate into a socially acceptable reality where men are better than women. This is something that is just simply not true. We are all created equal
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information about cause-and-effect relationships. This is because such studies offer a snapshot of a single moment in time; they do not consider what happens before or after the snapshot is taken. 9) Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory of Cognitive Development- Basically how your culture and social interactions influence your development. Vygotsky’s concept of scaffolding is closely related to the concept of the zone of proximal development. Scaffolding refers to the temporary support given to a child by More Knowledgeable Others, usually parents or teachers, that enable the child to perform a task until such time that the child can already
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