PIAGET'S THEORY OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPEMENT

INTRODUCTION
Piaget was interested in how organism which called behavior (adaption to the enviroment) is contorolled through mental organizations called schemes that
idividual uses to represent the world and designate action.
Piaget also hypothesized that infants are born with schemes operating at birth that he called "reflexes". Human uses these reflexes to adapt to the
evironment
There are two processes used by individual which is assimilation and accomodation.
Accomodation = The process of changing cognitive structures in order to accept something from environment.
Assimilation = The process of using the transformintg the enviroment so that it can be placed in preexisting cognitive stuctures

POINT

(Piaget identified 4 stages in cognitive development )

SENSORINGMOTOR

[
STAGE INFANCY ] -
PRE OPERATIONAL CONCREATE FORMAL

This stage is about STAGE TODDLER[ ] [

OPERATIONAL STAGE

/
OPERATIONAL STAGE

intelligence
ELEMENTARY EARLY
[
ADOLEESCENE /
This stage tells ]
(demonstrated through
ADOLESCENE
ADULTHOOD ]
intelligencence is In this stage,
motor activity without
about demonstrated intelligence is
use of symbols. Intelliigence is
through the use of demmonstarted
Children acquire object
symbols, language use through logical and demonstrated
permanence at about 7 systematic
months of age matures, memory and
manipulation of
through the
(memory). imagination are symbols related to logical use of
Physical development developed. concrete objects. symbols related to
(mobility) allows the But thinking is done in Operational thinking
abstract concepts.
child to begin new a nonlogical, develops mental actions
nonreversable that are reversible.
intellectual abilities.
manner

CLOSING
Piaget's ideas have been supported through more correlational and experimantal methodologies. He believed that boilogical development drives
the movement from on cognitive stage to the next.
IMPLICATION
Teachers out there should use the approach taken by Jean Piaget in the cognitive development of children because the way he introduced is very
suitable for a child

REFERENCES
Huitt,W., & Hummel. (2003). Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Developement. Educational Psychology Interactive.Valdosta, GA: Valdosta State
University. Retrieved 22 August 2021 from
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 Noam Comsky was proposed the language acquisition device
(LAD) which is to explain how children, when exposed to any
human language are able to learn it within only a few years
following birth.
The term universal grammar has been used to describe the
knowledge contained in the LAD.

R I
The process of language development is the process by which

R T O
a child learns the rules of grammar found in grammar

U S
applicable to the language the child is learning.

B
POINT

Human are born with LAD but other species are not.

FASTFOOD
Nonhumans do not spontaneously learn human languages.
Chimpanzees and gorillas have learned to use signed language and it can use when to CO
refer or concrete objects or concepts such as hungry.
Chomsky’s claim that knowledge of language is innate was supported by Eric
Lenneberg’s critical period hypothesis. In 1967 which he argued that humans are
biologically capable of learning language only until puberty.

Zoology had recognized the existence of critical periods of development for a range of nonhuman animal species
POINT

ESTD such as sheep.

2002
Case studies of children raised without sufficient exposure to human language appeared to support the critical
period hypothesis.
Individuals born with severe hearing loss who were not exposed to a signed language until after puberty typically
had not been able to achieve nativelike proficiency.

Organic Product
individuals who attempt to learn a second language after puberty rarely achieve a level of proficiency comparable
to that of one who learns the language during childhood.

CONCLUSION
According to Chomsky, the primary challenge for this alternative approach to language
learning is adequately explaining how children produce word forms and sentences that
they do not experience in the environment .
IMPLICATION
So, we as a teacher so, should always observe the language development of a student so
that they do not fall behind in lessons

REFERENCES
Language Acquisititon Device. (2021)Retrieve from
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