psychology homework.?

Question

describe and evaluate Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
I would like someone elses views on what they feel bout this and if had to compare two psychological approaches or psychologist who would you compare Piaget with?

Answer 1

I know kolhberg did moral development and piaget did cognitive, but their studies do cross pathes.
when piaget says kids are egocentirc and can only think about themselves- is the same stage (preconventional) where kids only think of their benefits while making choices.

you could also tie Erikson in with this. while he says teens are searching for idenity and having trouble with role confusion- kolhberg says they are becoming postcon and evluating eahc situation individually. Piaget also thinks this is when people are ni their abstract thinking phase

If I had to pick two people for cog development, I'd say Piaget and
Erikson. They are similar in other ways than the ones mentioned above. piaget works in goals- a goal for each of his 4 stages. Erikson has a conflict- and the goal is to over come said conflict- in his 8 stages. the way piaget says kids think coinsides with the problems erikson says they face.

I loved kolhberg and if you can mix theroists (moral and cog) I'd use him. demonstrait how a child thinks (cog, intellectually) and how they think in term so morals (conscious). they do also coinside. limited understanding and limited views on morality. and the more they can understand (after object permanence) the more they think abstractly and individually on moral issues that have no easy right or wrong answer

Answer 2

You might like to look up Samuel & Bryant's experiment which tested Piaget's theory, in particular his identification of conservation as a skill characteristic of the operational stages.

Answer 3

you need to be more specific with what part of Piaget's cognitive development your talking about bcos this could refer to language as well as child development. Overall however you could descrive it as being that the child won't develop something or learn something until they understand the meaning behind it. Another psychological approach this can be compared with is either the social learning theory whereby children learn from reinforcement (Bowlby and the Bobo doll study), or anything biologically achieved or related to genetics.

Answer 4

Michael Barnes' stages of religious and scientific thinking

also check out Kieran Egan's stages of understanding

Both are based on Piagetian and post-Piagetian stage theories/heuristics,