The Theory of John Piaget | Human Life Transitions
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Running head: HUMAN LIFE TRANSITIONSHUMAN LIFE TRANSITIONSName of the student:Name of the university:Author note:
1HUMAN LIFE TRANSITIONSThe theory of John Piaget mainly focuses on the cognitive development of children. Everyperson has to go sequentially in life in order to develop cognitive power and mental stability.This theory helps to provide insight about how children gather knowledge as days pass whichresults in development of natural intelligence within them (Bjourklund, 2013). Children areenthusiastic individuals who take great interest in knowing about the nature, becoming a part ofthe world and handling different elements of the world. Besides learning, they also develop thescope of enhancing their existing knowledge and can link this existing knowledge with thepreviously held ideas in order to get more information about the different elements of human life(Payne &Issacs, 2017).There are four important pages which are described by Piaget in his own theory. Out of the fourimportant periods the most important one that should be discussed in the case of Jack and hismother is called the sensorimotor stage. This usually extends from the birth year to that of 2years of age when children open up gradually to the different ways of the world. In this period ofyears children are often exposed to different phases of learning and growth (Siegler, 2016). Theyget scopes of interacting with the environment where they gain understanding of the immediatesurroundings. They also try to engage themselves in new innovations or discovery and also arefound to be eager to learn about different working systems of human beings and the world. In thestage they also get to develop the concept of language mainly from the people who surroundsthem. The stage is continued into the next stage which is the preoperational stage. This stagemainly exists from the age of 2 to that of the age of 7. At this stage the children develop theability to be relating object symbolically (Mischel, 2013). This usually means that they graduallydevelop the capability of linking the words that they have learnt in order to represent them in theform of pictures of objects by pointing them.
2HUMAN LIFE TRANSITIONSA number of different factors which would be contributed to the improper development oflanguage skills in Jack are that his mother Venessa stayed away from him during his time ofcognitive development. Vanessa is a working woman who worked outside for most of the time ofthe day. Therefore Jack has not got the opportunity to develop his language skills as he had notbeen able to communicate with his mother as much he should have done in his budding stage. Ithas been seen by researchers that more adults talk with an infant and encourage him to speak,more developed are the skills of language in that child. Research states that it has been found thatchildren who belong to highly verbal professional family are able to come across words whichare thrice as much as in numbers in comparison to those families who have low verbaldiscussions (Lillrd et al., 2013). The children of the former situation are found to be moreinteractive with their parents and family members than in the later case. His mother used to stayaway and he did not get as much chance to communicate with his mother which states thatfrequency of communication was also less. Moreover he was spending a large amount of time inthe crèche where there were many other children of this state who were also learning to talk. Jackhas been picking up words from his friend who does not have clear pronunciation of words. As aresult he is found to be blabbering as he is not being able to develop knowledge about the correcttone and pronunciation of the word (Wozniack, 2014). This is also stated by the researchers thatyoung learners try to pick up the intent of the speaker’s language. They try to understand the toneof excitement for the speakers. In case of Vanessa, no such approaches where found as a result ofwhich the child also did not show any interest in trying to speak with other children as well aswith the family members.Another important theory that needs to be used to explain that social development of the child inthe case study is Erikson theory. There are 8 period of developments that continue from
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