Jean piaget theory of cognitive development pdf

• DOI: • Corpus ID: 202292914 Piaget’s Cognitive Developmental Theory: Critical Review @article • Z. Babakr , Pakstan Mohamedamin , Karwan Kakabra Kakamad • Published 15 August 2019 • Psychology • Education Quarterly Reviews In the last century, Jean Piaget proposed one of the most famous theories regarding cognitive development in children. Piaget proposed four cognitive developmental stages for children, including sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and the formal operational stage. Although Piaget’s theories have had a great impact on developmental psychology, his notions have not been fully accepted without critique. Piaget’s theory has some shortcomings, including overestimating the ability of… Expand

Jean Piaget’s theory of cognitive development describes cognitive disequilibrium as a state of cognitive imbalance [ Another option we have when in a state of cognitive disequilibrium is to discount the information presented in the environment and instead leave our existing schema unaltered. A child may refuse to... Editors and Affiliations • Neurology, Learning and Behavior Center, 230 South 500 East, Suite 100, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84102, USA Sam Goldstein Ph.D. • Department of Psychology MS 2C6, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 22030, USA Jack A. Naglieri Ph.D. ( Professor of Psychology) ( Professor of Psychology) Cite this entry Kibler, J. (2011). Cognitive Disequilibrium. In: Goldstein, S., Naglieri, J.A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Child Behavior and Development. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79061-9_598 Download citation • • • • DOI : https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79061-9_598 • Publisher Name : Springer, Boston, MA • Print ISBN : 978-0-387-77579-1 • Online ISBN : 978-0-387-79061-9 • eBook Packages :

This chapter outlines Piaget’s Stage Theory of Cognitive Development and its application in a teacher training institute involving graduate physics trainee teachers predicted to operate at the formal operational stage. It is presumed that, at this stage, having assimilated and accommodated logical understanding from the concrete stage, the trainees have a good articulation of theoretical, combinatorial and proportional reasoning. In this study, an attempt has been made to investigate this hypothesis through a case study involving six physics trainee teachers. The trainees were assigned a written task on the motion of a golf ball after which they were required to verbalise their reasoning patterns during individual oral presentations. The trainees demonstrated adequate theoretical reasoning but lacked combinatorial and proportional reasoning patterns. We opine that teacher training institutions should design programmes that make provision for the interconnection of concrete and formal operational stages into a cyclical mode so as to promote reflective practices in trainees. Keywords • Cognitive development • Concrete stage • Formal operational • Equilibrium • Logical understanding • Theoretical reasoning • Combinatorial reasoning • Proportional reasoning • Physics • Teacher training • Barouillet, P. N. (2015). Theories of cognitive development: From Piaget to today. Developmental Review, 1–12. • Bastable, S. B., & Dart, M. A. (2008). Developmental stages of the learner. In ...