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  2. Jean Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development outlines four stages (sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational) in a child's cognitive development from infancy to adolescence.

  3. Piaget’s Theory of Moral Development - Simply Psychology

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    Piaget's Theory of Moral Development posits that children's understanding of morality evolves in stages. Initially, they see rules as unchangeable and imposed by authorities ("heteronomous morality").

  4. Preoperational Stage of Cognitive Development - Simply Psychology

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    The intuitive thought substage, occurring between ages 4-7, is part of Piaget’s preoperational stage of cognitive development. During this period, children rely heavily on intuition and perception to understand their world. They exhibit characteristics such as egocentrism, centration, and animism.

  5. Sensorimotor Stage of Cognitive Development - Simply Psychology

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    Piaget's Sensorimotor Stage is the first of four stages in his theory of cognitive development, spanning from birth to approximately 2 years of age. During this phase, infants and toddlers primarily learn through sensory experiences and manipulating objects.

  6. Lev Vygotsky's theory of child development, known as the sociocultural theory, emphasizes the importance of social interaction and cultural context in learning and cognitive development. Vygotsky proposed the concept of the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD), which is the gap between what a child can do independently and what they can achieve ...

  7. Vygotsky vs. Piaget: A Paradigm Shift - Simply Psychology

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    Vygotsky: Oriented towards heteronomy and focuses on the individual’s dependence on social and cultural factors for cognitive development. Piaget: Orientation towards Autonomy. Constructivism: Piaget’s theory is fundamentally constructivist, emphasizing the child’s active role in building knowledge structures. He stated, “To understand ...

  8. Accommodation and Assimilation in Psychology

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    The interplay between assimilation and accommodation is fundamental to Piaget’s theory of cognitive development. While seemingly opposing forces, assimilation and accommodation are fundamentally interdependent and complementary

  9. Constructivism Learning Theory & Philosophy of Education

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    Constructivist learning theory underpins a variety of student-centered teaching methods and techniques which contrast with traditional education, whereby knowledge is simply passively transmitted by teachers to students.

  10. Child Psychology - Simply Psychology

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    Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development suggests that children move through four different stages of intellectual development which reflect the increasing sophistication of children's thoughts. Child development is determined by biological maturation and interaction with the environment.

  11. Jerome Bruner believed that children construct knowledge and meaning through active experience with the world around them. He emphasized the role of culture and language in cognitive development, which occurs in a spiral fashion with children revisiting basic concepts at increasing levels of complexity and abstraction.