Nature Vs. Nurture Jean Piaget, a Swiss developmental psychologist and Lev Vygotsky, a Soviet developmental psychologist had two different viewpoints on a child's development. Although both viewpoints are different, neither are wrong. It is very interesting to understand how "nature" and "nurture" b...
This stage is called "formal operations," and is when the individual uses abstract thinking, logic, deductive reasoning, classification and comparison. ... Reasoning, clear objectives, and problem solving are the types of learning that are best supported by this theory (Koch 95-96). ...
Piaget became fascinated early in his studies with the discovery that children of the same age often gave the same incorrect answers to questions, suggesting that there were consistent, qualitative differences in the nature of reasoning of different ages, not simply a quanitive increase in the amount of intelligence or knowledge. ... Preoperational children are able to make mental representations of unseen objects, but cannot use deductive reasoning, demonstrate conservation of number, and can differentiate their perspective from that of other people. ...
Cognitive development is associated with the changes in an individual's reasoning, thoughts and intelligence reflected by a modification in language referring to memory and concepts. ... A child who successfully passes through the stages progresses from simple sensorimotor responses to the ability to classify and create series of objects and eventually to engage in hypothetical and deductive reasoning. ...
