Cognitive development

 Piagets Stages of cognitive devel

 Lev Vygosty Social cultural thoery
 Brunners discovery/constructive..
  Cognitive Development
• Cognitive psychologists study internal
processes including perception, attention,
language, memory and thinking.

• Cognitive learning theories seek to explain

how the brain processes and stores new
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 Jean Piaget’s Theory of Development

 The Sensorimotor Period (birth to 2 years)

 , infants and toddlers "think" with their eyes,
ears, hands, and other sensorimotor &
reflexes at birth,
 Concepts developed under this stage
1. circular reaction
2. object permanence
3. single minded
 Preoperational stage (2 to 6/7 years)

 Understand the environment by means of

observing and imitating and are ego centric.
 Develop the following characteristics:
1. animism
2. egocentrism
3. transductive reasoning
4. syncretism
5. decentering
6. symbolic play
 Concrete operational stage.
7years to 12 years
• Concrete operations means that the child is
able to perform various logical operations but
only with concrete things
• Develop the following characteristics
1. conservation
2. reversibility
3. serial ordering.
4. class inclusion
 Formal Operations (11/12 to adult)

• Individuals start thinking scientifically and

understand things from abstract.
• Types of scientific reasoning
1.combinatorial reason
2. probablistic reasoning
3. proportional reasoning
4. control variables
 Educational implications
• Curriculum development
• Selection of
1. methods,
2. language
3. T/L aids
 Ask challenging questions and ask learners to
explain how they arrived at solution
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