Piaget And Vygotsky
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Piaget And Vygotsky
Everyday life is characterized by conscious purpose. From reaching for food to
designing an experiment, our actions are directed at goals. This purpose reveals
itself partly in our conscious awareness and partly in the organization of our
thoughts and actions. Cognition is the process involved in thinking and mental
activity, such as attention, memory and problem solving. Much past and present
theory has emphasized the parallels between the articulated prepositional
structure of language and the structure of an internal code or language of
thought. In this paper I will discuss language and cognition and two famous
theorist who were both influential in forming a more scientific approach to
analyzing the process of cognitive development. Jean Piaget There are those that
say that Jean Piaget was the first to take children`s thinking seriously.
Although Piaget never thought of himself as a child psychologist his real
interest was epistemology, the theory of knowledge, which, like physics, was
considered a branch of philosophy until Piaget came along and made it a science
(2000). Children and their reasoning process fascinated Piaget. He began to
suspect that observing how the child`s mind develops might discover the key to
human knowledge. Piaget`s insight opened a new window into the inner workings of
the mind. Jean Piaget has made major theoretical and practical contributions to
our understanding of the origins and evolution of knowledge. Stages of Childhood
Development In his work Piaget identified stages of mental growth. He theorized
that all children progressed through stages of cognitive development. He
discovered that children think and reason differently at different periods in
their lives. Piaget believed that everyone passed through a sequence of four
qualitatively distinct stages. They are sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete
operational and formal operational. In the sensorimotor stage, occurring from
birth to age 2, the child is concerned with gaining motor control and learning
about physical objects. This stage promotes that thought is based primarily on
action. Every time an infant does any action such as holding a bottle or
learning to turn over, they are learning more about their bodies and how it
relates to them and their environment. Piaget maintains that there are six
sub-stages in the sensorimotor stage although children pass through three major
achievements. In the preoperational stage, from ages 2 to 7, the child ...
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