Since the cognitive revolution, learning theory has accepted most of Piaget's basic constructivist premises and outstripped his theory in its ability to model the details of children's cognitive structures. Thus, an important question is whether Piagetian theory still has anything distinctive to ...
Several theories of learning and development are presented: nativism, behaviorism, structuralism, infopation processing, the naive theories approach, the sociohistorical approach, and two interstitial theories鈥攁 neo-Piagetian and a nonuniversal developmental theory. I claim that the notions of learning...
The most famous cognitive development theorist is Jean Piaget who developed his stage theory of children’s cognitive development. Cognitive approaches are also popular among educational technologists through learning process approaches such as thecognitive toolsapproach to teaching. These are the major cogn...
However, if social learning is the essence of cognitive development then learning would be a lot faster than it is. Thus Vygotsky ignores the biological aspects that aid or restricts the cognitive development such as the development of brain and maturation. Therefore Piaget’s theory of cognitive ...
Third, we introduce the Learning Theory of Attachment. Finally, we will demonstrate how this theory sets a promising new research agenda that may reveal new insights into the development of individual differences in attachment over time. 2. Attachment theory: A brief introduction of core concepts ...
From a theoretical perspective, the most important turning point is the development of the statistical learning theory [56], which provided the understanding of what is sufficient for successful and efficient learning, but also yielded some very successful learning algorithms such as support vector ...
1. Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development Jean Piaget Piagetis an interesting character in Psychology. His theory of learning differs from many others in some important ways: First, he focuses exclusively on children; Second, he talks aboutdevelopment(notlearningper se) and Third, it’s a st...
I.Current research status on Learning and Development The research on learning and development of enterprise employees originated in the early 20th century. Frederick Taylor, the father of scientific management theory, pondered ways to optimize employee workflows, reduce ineffective work processes and ope...
An eight stage theory of identity and psychosocial development. Erik Erikson, a German psychoanalyst heavily influenced by Sigmund Freud, explored three aspects of identity: the ego identity (self), personal identity (the personal idiosyncrasies that distinguish a person from another, social/cultural id...
Social Development Theory (L. Vygotsky)Overview:The major theme of Vygotsky’s theoretical framework is that social interaction plays a fundamental role in the development of cognition. Vygotsky (1978) states: “Every function in the child’s cultural development appears twice: first, on the social...