Cognitive_Development_Study

Cognitive Development Study SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION 1:1 - AIM The aim of this investigation is to observe and report on a child that attends Calvary Christian College, and asses their relative stage of development as determined by Jean Piaget. 1:2 - ENVIRONMENT The child being studied in this investigation, CH4, is a preschool student currently attending Calvary Christian College. He is an outgoing child and is quite intelligent. SECTION 2: REVIEW OF LITERATURE 2:1 - SCHOOL The subject, CH4, attends Calvary Christian College, a small private school. The school’s mission is to provide a distinctly Christian education, to strengthen the family and help prepare students to meet the challenges of life. 2:2 – PIAGET’S THEORY OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT Jean Piaget was a famous Swedish psychologist whose studies and theories on cognitive development have had a major impact on child psychology. Piaget suggested that children go through four separate stages in a fixed order that is universal in all children. These stages are: 1. Sensorimotor…………………………………………...……0-2 years 2. Preoperational…………………………………………….…2-7 years a. Preconceptual……………………………………………2-4 years b. Intuitive……………………………………………….…4-7 years 3. Concrete Operations………………………………………..7-11 years 4. Formal Operations………………………………………...11-15 years Piaget hypothesised that these stages differ not only in the amount of information acquired in each, but also in the quality of knowledge and understanding at that stage. When a ch4, subject, child, stage, development, thought, investigation, conservation, theory, tests, research, piaget’s, period, cognitive, yet, stages, pre-operational, farm, christian, testing, piaget, out, order, jean, grass, farms, experimenter, concrete, college, children, calvary, been, amount, age, understanding, two, through, theories, studies, signs, shows, seven, school, rule, review, reversibility, results, response, report