Describe Piagets theory of cognitive development in terms of

Describe Piaget’s theory of cognitive development in terms of the environment. What type of environment would provide the best chance at successful development? Is habituation a good or bad thing?

Pretend a friend emails you and tells you her 18 month old child has not yet begun talking. What are some explanations for this? Do you believe language is more biologically influenced or socially influenced? Why?

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Ques-1: Describe Piaget’s theory of cognitive development in terms of the environment. What type of environment would provide the best chance at successful development? Is habituation a good or bad thing?

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Piaget\'s theory of cognitive development:

According to Piaget, cognitive reversibility is a tangible operation state in which children initially habituate and gain knowledge to understand the things how it works and alter they gain knowledge to return to their original state. This type of understanding is mainly based on \"child\'s ability to interact with environment using senses and motor abilities from initial birth to 2 years. The major environmental effects mainly have specific impact on the developing cognitive skills as part of \"adaptation\" perspectives

Piaget illustrated children’s cognitive development in four stages as according to environmental impact

They are 1. Sensory motor stage

2. Pre-operational stage (2 to7 years of old)

3. Concrete operational (children of 7 to 11 years old)

4. Formal operations (11 to 16 years adolescence stage)

Initial cognitive activities in child has associated with environmental effects in which infants, toddlers & pre-school stage children obtain capabilities of “asserting control over the surroundings through interaction as well as play that improves sensorimotor activity”.       

A \"suitable learning type of environment\" would provide the best chance at successful cognitive development & sensori-motor development in children. Constructive physical activities and learning environment: It is crucial to create an environment to improve their constructive way of thinking along motor skills so that children often featured by engaging in performing these acts according to constructive rules. This type of physical environment improves their sensory –motor skills in the brain.

According Piaget conservation has illustrated as the process in which children at the age of 2 to seven are unable to think logically. However, their logical thinking starts at the age of seven to eleven years. The formal operational stage starts after 11 years in which children often learn about mathematical models and apply them to solve a variety of problems.

For example, a child at the age of 2 to 7 years old was asked to denote and represent the height of the two trees located on the hill. More often children confirmed that the tree which is located at hill top is taller and higher than the tree located at the base of the hill. In this representation child failed to think logically that he has to measure the height of the tree exactly.

In another example, a 2 to 7 year old child was asked why stars are blinking and shining in the sky? Child has replied that because they are happy. Egocentric nature of the children and also inability to think logically are the two phenomenon were expressed.