Essays on Jean Piaget

Jean Piaget’s Cognitive Development Theory Jean considered himself a genetic epistemologist that focus on “How we come to know.” Piaget theory proposed by various stages of a child where transition from one stage to the other follows a sequence. While some of his ideas have...

Jean Piaget’s Theory Piaget’s Stage Theory of Cognitive Development is one of the most widely known perspectives on cognitive expansion. His theory includes four distinct stages in children which explain how the child constructs a mental model of its surroundings. The main goals seem to...

Jean Piaget, a Swiss cognitive theorist who believed that children’s learning depends on reinforcements, such as rewards from adults. According to his cognitive- developmental theory, children actively construct knowledge as they explore their world (Berk, 2008). Piaget separated cognitive development into 4 main stages which...

The Preoperational Stage The Preoperational stage is one out of four Piaget Stages. It occurs during the ages of two to seven years. There are limitations to the child’s thoughts during this stage. What the child sees is automatically what is real, to them. This...

According to Piaget’s observations and criticism, Piaget believed that cognitive development was a way of adapting to the environment and children are constantly interested in understanding and exploring things. According to his theory implements that children are born with a basic mental structure and is...

Jean Piaget was the first psychologist to make a systematic study of cognitive development. Some of his contributions comprise of detailed observational studies of cognition in children, a stage theory of child cognitive development and a series of simple but insightful tests to reveal various...

Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) was introduced by Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky who was known for his sociocultural theory. Vygotsky was born November 17, 1896 in Orsha, Belarus (then Russian empire) and spent his childhood in Gomel. Lev read the Torah as a child and...