Comparing Cognitive Development Theories of Piaget and Vygotsky

Though Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky had differences in the way the viewed cognition and how it develops differently they both were highly accredited for their contributions to cognitive development. Piaget had a much more in depth and complete theory for how children develop cognitively speaking. Vygotsky unfortunately demised before he could complete his theory or else this might have been a much different paper. They both believe in a sequence or order in which children grow and learn. Piaget believed that they are born with the skills they need to learn and vygotsky also believed this. Both Vygotsky and Piaget were constructivists and believed that social forces set the limits to development. Children played a very important role in getting

Cognition is a major part of everyday life they you may never think about however if something was not fully developed it can be catastrophic. Cognition is the process in which people acquire and understand new knowledge. Before Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky very little was known about cognitive development, and very few people were even curious. That is until Piaget came along and opened the world’s eyes to some of the world’s biggest questions about why kids think the way that they do. Piaget created a very well developed and widely accepted cognitive developmental theory that changed the way people see children’s thought process. He focussed his study to children because this is when they seem to be the least knowledgeable and they learn the most as a child. Piaget believed that children had fixed stages they would go through no matter where they were. He believed in four stages every child in the universe would go through. Lev Vygotsky however had a little different idea. Vygotsky believed that instead of a one sized fits all perspective it was more complex than that. He believed that culture and ethnicity played a major role in cognitive development. Many aspects of Vygotsky’s theory is unfinished to to his early demise but the work that he done was revolutionary to the world of psychology. These two men though very different in many aspects changed the way we view children’s processing