Developments Of Jean Piaget: Contributions To Modern Psychology

Adults have an active role in raising a child's cognitive development, by helping the child's “efforts and enabling the child to gain skills, knowledge, and confidence.” (Grossman, S. 2008) As children acquire skills through assisted learning, “adults slowly decrease their support until the children are able to work independently.” (Grossman, S. 2008) With... ... middle of paper ... ...hildren. Each is of great importance in developing an overview of the evolutionary concept of human development. Children's cognitive development has an intimate relationship with the emotional, social, and biological developments they face. All these aspects are involved in the development of the intelligence in children. To conclude, the contrasting but significant work of these theorists illustrate how learning theories developed over a century ago are still highly influential in behavior towards early childhood education.

Psychology can be described as the science which is dedicated to the mind, brain and behaviour. This science envelops all aspects of experiences likewise thoughts. It is also a studious discipline and a social science seeking to grasp individuals and groups through specific researches. As this science has existed for centuries, it has had many important participant in its development. All participant were influential, however, some were in my opinion much more influential as they contributed particularly to the development of psychology.

They were asked, “What should be the test given to children thought to possibly have learning disabilities, that might place them in a spe... ... middle of paper ... ...al age then multiplying by 100 (Mental Age/Chronological Age x 100 = IQ) This pertains to current life because the tests that were formed back then are being taken now by everyone who goes to school. These tests are now a regular part of life and judge if students should go into harder classes, what book level they should be reading at, and how intelligent a person is overall. My thoughts were that because of this discovery psychologist after him were able to expand on his research and make today what it is. Other people might say that it isn’t possible to know how intelligent a brain is from just one test but really the test is just estimation and shouldn’t be taken literally. Currently Alfred Binet works it still being used to base current intelligence tests of off.

Personalities, and what they mean in understand people better has been a hot topic for many theorists for a long time. “Unlike many fields of psychology, personality research has been a truly international enterprise for many decades.” (Allik, 2013) The following theories of personality that will be looked at will show their importance regarding the development of human personality. The definitions will offer an idea on why these concepts of personality are important, and the influence they each may have on the theories of personality. Each of the concepts provided may help scientists to really look at the uniqueness of the people they may be working with. Included Concepts Psychodynamic Model I have chosen to examine Alfred Adler and his inferiority complex

Some of Piaget’s earlier psychological work included running intelligence tests on children. By preforming these tests, the results led him to the conclusion that children think differently from adults because at the time it was assumed that children were just smaller adults. Because of this, Piaget began to study cognitive development errors in children (Piaget, 1976). One example of a test he performed was giving a three year old one large mound of clay and one small mound of clay. Next, he would tell the child to make them into two equal mounds.

Piaget theory said that a person will complete all of the steps of development by the end of their life, they may just skip or be stuck in one before completing development. I also believe in Vygotsky theory of cognitive development associated with social development. There are things that stick out about Vygotsky to me that have made me feel his research and study are accurate. When you look at the lives of children they act, talk, and interact just like the people around them. Children copy adults as Vygotsky referred to as the more knowledgeable other, as they see them with greater knowledge than themselves.

This discoveries got Piaget thinking, because he thought children were born with a basic mental brain structure based on evolved learning and knowledge. He believed that these answers children were giving revealed that there are very important differences in the way of thinking in adults and children. Piaget soon became the first psychologist to come up with a systematic study of cognitive development in 1936. Piaget had a very spe... ... middle of paper ... ... see how the different speeds of thinking were going on in a childs mind. There were test to show the strength and a imagination of a childs mind.

We have gone from not being able to explain the way we empathise with others, to finding explanations for more than just the original question. It is easy to say, that mirror neuron research has been one of the biggest breakthroughs in neuron research within the last decade. The application of this research has provided explanations for questions that have baffled scientists for years. From the survival of language, to ways of battling and potentially curing autism. From the way we understand and learn, to the way kids learn to play sports.

Before that, children were thought to have less intellectual abilities than adults. This theory models the steps children move through in thought and logical thinking, how their learning differs from adult learning, and the importance of mastering one stage before moving on to the next. The way that children grow and develop their viewpoint of life depends on their ability to form a baseline of knowledge, then question and cognitively think through how an experience differs. Piaget did not state that just because a child is a certain age, that they must be entering a specific stage. However, based on his clinical observations, most children at the designated age can perform given tasks and thoughts.

He suggested that as children develop socially, mentally and physically new schemas develop and the old ones would either integrate or modify to be cognitive structures. (Taylor,G, Mackenny,L 2008) Whilst studying children’s development, Piaget came to realise that children reason differently from adults when being interviewed, they has different philosophies about the nature of the world. A child is actively involved in his own development Piaget believed and the child once born is not a ‘blank slate’ as they are always learning ideas about the world such as space, quantity and number. Piaget’s theories concentrated on 4 factors of development; ‘Maturation’ which focuses on the maturation of a child after birth, ‘Experience’ this may be direct physical experience a child has or the reflection the child has on the structure of an experience, ‘Social Transmission’ which is the social interaction the ch... ... middle of paper ... ...c patterns of behaviour have a minor role in the development of any human intelligence. Piaget’s ideas opposed the traditional behaviourist theory; he believed that infants frequently and actively seek stimulation.