Piaget Cognitive Development Theory Definition & Stages

Piaget Cognitive Development Theory Definition & Stages

v  What is Cognition?

·         It is the process by which knowledge and understanding is developed in the mind.

v  Cognitive Development

·         Cognitive means connected with mental process of understanding. So cognitive development refers especially to the mental development of child. With the passage of time the experiences of child are changed and increased this is called the process of cognitive development.

v  Cognitive Process

·         According to cognitive theory children are innately born with the imagination that who are they? Or what they ought to be? With the help of these imaginations, the children start the process of learning through experiences which is known as cognitive process.

v  Basic Components of Piaget Cognitive Development

Adaptation and cognitive development continues as the child gets mature. New elements in the environment are deal with in old ways, and over time old elements can be deal with in new ways plagued called these growing abilities psychological structure and it are composed of two types.

1.      Schema:  The infant develops a sucking scheme, for example, and employing that scheme on other objects in the environment can thereby learn.

2.      Operation: A second type of psychological structure is operation. Whereas the schema is a behavioral adaptation develops through maturation as the child becomes increasingly able to think in a more complicated way.

3.      Assimilation: Which is using an existing schema to deal with a new object or situation?

4.      Accommodation: This happens when the existing schema (knowledge) does not work, and needs to be changed to deal with a new object or situation.

5.      Equilibration: This is the force, which moves development along. Piaget believed that cognitive development did not progress at a steady rate, but rather in leaps and bounds.