CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

LEARNING THEORIES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What did Piaget (individual constructivism) consider to be critical for cognitive development?
A
modeling from adults
B
scaffolding
C
interaction with physical environment
D
reinforcement
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Apart from the schemas we are born with schemas and operations are learned through interaction with other people and the environment. Piaget emphasized the importance of schemas in cognitive development and described how they were developed or acquired.

Detailed explanation-2: -Jean Piaget His theories indicate that humans create knowledge through the interaction between their experiences and ideas. His view of constructivism is the inspiration for radical constructivism due to his idea that the individual is at the center of the knowledge creation and acquisition process.

Detailed explanation-3: -Piaget proposed four major stages of cognitive development, and called them (1) sensorimotor intelligence, (2) preoperational thinking, (3) concrete operational thinking, and (4) formal operational thinking. Each stage is correlated with an age period of childhood, but only approximately.

Detailed explanation-4: -Stages of Cognitive Development According to Jean Piaget, stages of development takes place via the interaction between natural capacities and environmental happenings, and children experience a series of stages (Wellman, 2011).

Detailed explanation-5: -Piaget’s theory is based on the idea that the developing child builds cognitive structures–in other words, mental “maps, ” schemes, or networked concepts for understanding and responding to physical experiences within his or her environment.

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