THEORIES OF DEVELOPMENT

Cognitive Development, Psychosocial Development and Moral Development

Purpose
Understanding of the students development on the Physical cognition , and social-emotional development

Main Contents

Piagets View of Cognitive Development VYGOTSKYs View of Cognitive Development Eriksons view of personal and social development Kohlbergs stages of Moral Reasoning

Part 1
Issues of Development Piagets View of Cognitive Development

A Definition of Development

Creative Thinking (get into groups) Think about terms of Changing and Development. As human beings, what kinds of changing you can see and what you cant see? Are they all means the development during the lifetime?

1.understanding:

The term DEVELOPMENT in its most general psychological sense refers to certain changes that occur in human beings between conception and death. The term is not applied to all changes, but rather to those that appear in orderly way and remain for a reasonably long period of time.

4 kinds of develpment

Physical development, deal with the changes in the body; Personal development, means the changes in an individuals personality; Social development refers to changes in the way an individual relates to others; Cognitive development refers to changes in thinking

General Principles of Development

People develop at different rates. Development is relatively orderly. Development takes place gradually.

Piagets Theory of Cognitive Development

Brief Introduction Some very important concepts in his cognitive theory How Cognitive Development Occurs Four stages of Cognitive development Educational Implications of Piagets Theory

Brief Introduction

Jean Piaget, born in Switzerland in 1896, is the most influential developmental psychologist in the history of psychology

important concepts

SCHEMES ASSIMILATION ACCOMMODATION EQUILIBRATION()

How Cognitive Development Occurs?

Cognitive Development is gradualorderly, changes by which mental process become more complex and sophisticated. The essential development of cognition is the establishment of new schemes. Assimilation and accommodation are both processing of the ways of cognitive development. The equilibration is the symbol of a new stage of the cognitive development.

Stages of Cognitive development

Remember:

Piaget divided the cognitive development of children and adolescents into four stages: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational. All children pass through these stages in this order and that no child can skip a stage Different children may pass through the stages at some what different rates

Stage 1 sensorimotor(0-2)

Reflexes Object permanence

Object permanence

Object permanence

Lock of understanding of the principles of conservation

Stage 2 Pre-operational (2-7)

Lock of understanding of the principles of conservation Irreversible ()Thinking Ego centric Thinking

Some Piagetian Conservation Tasks

Stage 3 Concrete Operational (7-11)

Acquire the concept of reversibility. Respond to inferred()reality Seriation Classification Objective Thinking()

Respond to inferred reality

Flavell (1986) demonstrated this concept by showing children a red car and then, while they were still watching, covering it with a filter that made it appear black. When asked what color the car was, 3-year-olds responded "black," and 6-year-olds responded "red." The older, concrete operational child is able to respond to inferred reality, seeing things in the context of other meanings; preschoolers see what they see, with little ability to infer the meaning behind what they see.

Seriation

(P37-3)lining up sticks from smallest to largest. transitivity

Classification

Classification depends on a student's abilities to focus on a single characteristic of objects in a set and group the objects according to that characteristic Given 12 objects of assorted ()colors and shapes, the concrete-operational student can invariably pick out the ones that are round.

Stage 4 Formal Operational (11 - adulthood)

Children's thinking begins to develop into the form that is characteristic of adults Hypothetical conditions the ability to reason about situations and conditions that have not been experienced.

Four stages of Cognitive development

Creative Thinking:
(Working in groups:) How can we put the Piagets theory into our educational practice?

5. Educational Implications of Piagets Theory

Page 43 Understanding Students' Thinking Matching Strategies to Abilities Constructing Knowledge

Part 2 Vygotskys View of Cognitive Development

Brief Introduction Key ideas (Social-cultural theory ) Difference to Piagets view Application in Education

Brief Introduction
Vygotsky was a Russian psychologist who, though a contemporary of Piaget, died in 1934, only 38 when he died of tuberculosis, but he had produced over 100 books and articles

Key ideas (Social-cultural theory )

he proposed that intellectual development can be understood only in terms of the historical and cultural contexts children experience In contrast to Piaget, Vygotaky proposed that cognitive development is strongly linked to input from others. he believed that development depends on the sign systems that individuals grow up with ZPD (THE ZONE OF PROXIMAL DEVELOPMENT ) SCAFFOLDING

For example

A six-year-old has lost a toy and asks her father for help. The father asks her where she last saw the toy; the child says : I can't remember." He asks a series of questions: Did you have it in your room? Outside? Next door? To each question, the child answers, no.' When he says "in the car?" she says "1 think so" and goes to retrieve the toy.

Difference to Piagets view

Application in Education

Brainstorming:

How to put Vs theory in Educational Practice?

Application in Education
zone of proximal development scaffolding (Vedio 49min)

Self Learning
Part 3 How Did Erikson View Personal and Social Development? the basic ideas of Eriksons Personal and Social Development The stages of Personal and Social Development Implications of Eriksons theory

the basic ideas of Eriksons Personal and Social Development

Eriksons hypothesized that people pass eight psychological stage in their lifetime. At each stage, there are crises or critical issues to be resolved. Most people resolve each psycholoscial crisis satisfactorily and put it behand them to take on new challenges, some people may not completely resolve these crises and must continue to deal with them later in life.

The stages of Personal and Social Development

Psychological crises
Trust vis. misturst Autonomy vs. doubt

3 to 6 years Initiative vs. guilt 6 to 12 years Industry vs. inferiority 12 to 18 years Identity vs. role confusion Young adulthood Intimacy vs. isolation Middle adulthood Generativity vs. self-absorption Late adulthood Integrity vs. despair

Self Learning
Part 4 Kohlbergs stages of Moral Resoning the basic ideas of Kohlbergs stages of Moral Resoning The stages of Moral Resoning Implications of Kohlbergs theory

The end of Lecture 2