Vyquinsky And Vygotsky's Theory Of Cognitive Development

Does the how matter? Playing is one of the first activities children learn on the process of development. Is it important? Playing is very important on child development. Definitely most people agree that playing is important, but still today psychologist are conducting research to see what is the best way that children can learn. On one side of the spectrum are those who argue that screens does not help young children to learn. One the other side there are those who strongly agree that screens are the best manner that a child can acquire knowledge. Many theories of development provide evidence of what is the best way that a child could learn in the very earliest years of development. Piaget 's theory of cognitive development and Vygotsky’s

Piaget’s four stages of cognitive development are: Sensorimotor, which goes from birth to age of two; Preoperational starting at age of two until around age of seven. The concrete operational goes from seven years old to eleven years old, and finally, the formal operational stage beginning at eleven and goes all the way to

Culture has a big influence on child development. There are different ways in which culture context organize cognitive development: Culture often defines which cognitive activities are valued, for example some cultures might emphasis reading, while the others might prefer children to learn sciences. Culture is also responsible for providing tools that shape the way children think, some cultures provide abacus to solve mathematical problems, others provide pen and pencil, and other provide calculators. It all depends on the resources that the culture could provide the child with. Furthermore, high level cultural practices help children to organize their knowledge and communicate it to others. Some cultures promote children to work alone in schools, other cultures promote group work. Vygotsky and other sociocultural theorists argue that intersubjectivity is the social nature of cognitive development. Intersubjectivity is when participants in a activity mutually shared their understanding. For example, if a group of kid is trying to put some blocks together in order to build a house, they should share their understanding of the goal of the activity and the role that each one of them is going to play. By sharing their understanding would allow them to work together in a complementary manner. Guided participation is