Professional Documents
Culture Documents
OF COGNITIVE
DEVELOPMENT
COGNITIVE DEFICITS
ACCORDING TO
PIAGETS
Primacy of Language
= When children begin to learn
Diversity in Cognitive
Developmental Theory
= Piaget believed that stages of
cognitive development occur in
a predictable sequence from
child to child because each is
necessary for the formation of
the next stage.
2.
Constructivist Teaching
= Third legacy from Piagets. He
asserted that children construct their
own knowledge and should be
encouraged to do so. He stated that
each time one prematurely teaches a
child something he could have
discovered for himself that child is kept
from inventing it and consequently
from understanding completely.