Category: Jean Piaget

Analytical Essay on Cognitive Development: Jean Piaget and Nature Versus Nurture Introduction Cognitive development is that the construction of thought processes, together with memory, drawback determination, and decision-making, from childhood through adolescence to adulthood. Among the specifics of Cognitive Development are, information processing, intelligence, reasoning, language development and memory. Learning Objectives are; Be able to…

The Man Who Studied Your Thoughts: Descriptive Essay on Jean Piaget Jean Piaget was an influential Swiss psychologist and author who was able to prove something no one thought was true: he discovered that the way children think is unique and completely different from the way adults think. He carefully studied his own three children…

Jean Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development and Freuds Psychoanalytic Theory: Analytical Essay on Child Development What is attachment? Two theories of Child/Adolescent development are Jean Piaget’s theory of cognitive development and Freuds Psychoanalytic theory. Piaget was a strong proponent of constructivism which viewed learning as a search for meaning and described elements that helped predict…

Case study of Abigail Based on Theories of John Bowlby and Jean Piaget Abigail is a 6-year-old girl who lives in a quiet area within Kilwinning, North Ayrshire. She lives at home with her mum Wendy and pet dog named Sacha. Wendy is currently a student, therefore has a low income. Abigail attends Pennyburn Primary…

The Contribution of J.Piaget and S.Freud to the Development of Psychology The purpose of this assignment is to discuss the work completed by Jean Piaget (1896-1980). Piaget has been credited for the theory of cognitive development. The theory of cognitive development states how children develop intellectually during childhood (Comer, 2013). Piaget’s work will be evaluated,…

Operant Conditioning in the Pre-Linguistic Development Stage: Theories of Chomsky, Vygotsky and Piaget Introduction In the context of theories on child language development, the behaviourist theory of operant conditioning proposed by B.F. Skinner in Verbal Behaviour (1957), is one of the earliest, and arguably considered the most outmoded by many in the field. The basic…