Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Comora
GE1 (832)
Traits/Behavior/Mannerism Explanation
The theory of cognitive development by a psychologist Jean Piaget, states that the there
is a “nature of knowledge” that a person developed and accumulated through experiences and
stages in life. Jean Piaget believes that childhood is a vital part of the person’s development.
From his theory there are basic components of the cognitive development. First, the
schemas/schemes that is the organization of knowledge that the person acquire from his
surroundings and experiences, and in the graphic organizer that I created from the age of 0-2
years old to the current me, I learned many things from the teaching in the school, from the
lessons that my parents and friends taught me all of this is. Next is the Adaptation, that
according to the theory of Piaget it is the processes that the person undergo to acquire
knowledge for his development, and divided into categories the assimilation and
accommodation that if I will relate to my experience is when I was at the age of 2-7 because of
my curiosity i learned things and objectives like what my mother is used example the lipstick
and powders, and through assimilation I learned that these two things are both make ups that
is used for the face. And the third component is the stages of the development. The first stage
is the sensorimotor that ages from a months old to 2 years old that is the learning of the child,
like how I learned to sucked my fingers from what I do when my mother breastfeeds me, and I
also learned and recognizes the faces of my parents. Second stage is the Preoperational from
age 2-7 years old. In this stage, I am curios of everything for the reason that my hands I active
like grabbing things that is new to me and scolded or being taught of the things. In my
experience I used to play hanger or combs as my swords but my mother told me that the
hanger is used to hang clothes and the combs for the hair. Next stage, the third is the Concrete
operations, from the age 7-11 years old. In this stage I’ve gained knowledge from my teachers
and parents. As far as I can remember when I was in this age my parents always telling me that
when we eat, before and after we go to bed we should pray to God, and in this stage I learn
how to cooperate that I learned in scouting. And the last stage is the Formal operations from
the age of 12 and above. This last stage is from when I was in 7th grade until now. I’ve acquire
enough information and knowledge in this stage, for example I learn already about how to
solve complicated math problems, and in this stage my parents taught me how to withdraw
money from a ATM machine, and paybills, and much more capable of doing things than other
stages that I passed.