MAGKALAS, ALYANNA J.

BSED2- SOCIAL STUDIES

PIAGET VYGOTSKY

• Did not give much emphasis on language • believed in the crucial role
• More individual in focus believed that that culture played on the
there are universal stages of cognitive • Both theories offer
reasonable approaches cognitive development of
development. children.
on how to teach certain
• Piaget believed that as the child develops
material, concerning the • More social in focus.
and matures, he goes through universal
stages of cognitive development that
ways in which children’s • Did not propose stages but
process of thinking
allows him to move from simple emphasized on cultural
develops into adulthood.
explorations with senses and muscles to • The main similarities factors in cognitive
complex reasoning. between the two development.
• Piaget work on Piagetian task focused theories are the • Stressed the role of
heavily on how an individual’s cognitive development language in cognitive
development became evident through perspective.
development.
the individual’s own processing of the
tasks.