CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

PIAGET

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who are the two major theorists of Cognitive Development?
A
Piaget and Vygotsky
B
Piaget and Kohlberg
C
Piaget and Sigmund Freud
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Jean Piaget developed the most common theories of cognitive development. And, Lawrence Kohlberg developed the dominant theories of moral development.

Detailed explanation-2: -Piaget understands moral development as a construction process, i.e. the interplay of action and thought builds moral concepts. Kohlberg on the other hand, describes development as a process of discovering universal moral principles. In the first case autonomy means allowing this process to unfold independently.

Detailed explanation-3: -Piaget’s theory focuses on intelligence and how it changes as children grow up. While, Vygotsky’s theory centres on the social action and he defines intelligence as the capacity to learn from teaching.

Detailed explanation-4: -Just as Piaget believed that children’s cognitive development follows specific patterns, Kohlberg argued that we learn our moral values through active thinking and reasoning, and that moral development follows a series of stages.

Detailed explanation-5: -14.3: Cognitive Theorists-Piaget, Elkind, Kohlberg, and Gilligan.

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