Psychological Theories of Education

Running head: FUNDAMENTALS OF EDUCATION
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Discussion..................................................................................................................................2
Cognitive Development Theory:............................................................................................2
Multiple Intelligence Theory:................................................................................................3
Information-Processing Theory:............................................................................................4
Operant Conditioning Theory:...............................................................................................5
Bi-Lingual Language:............................................................................................................6
Development Theory:.............................................................................................................6
Psychoanalytic Theory:..........................................................................................................7
Psychosocial Theory:.............................................................................................................7
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................8

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Introduction
Fundamentals of education denotes the essentials or basics of educations that are
followed by everyone through the assumption of fundamentals as a base for the educational
theories. Education is fundamental for well lived life and the aspect that are fundamental to
education must be a basis to wilful living (Meltzer, 2018). The traditional formal educational
trainings are considered as the fundamentals of education that are subjected to each and
everyone in life. The fundamentals of education includes all the field of study that
collaboratively forms a comprehensive understanding regarding bases of knowledge. The
field of education that are covered in the fundamentals of education are The main purpose of
this report is to project stress on the discussion of Psychological theories of education through
the details about its theoretical frameworks. The report will include, Cognitive Development
Theory, Information-processing Theory, Multiple Intelligence Theory, Operant Conditioning
Theory, Development Theory, Bi-lingual Theory, Psychoanalysis Theory and Psychosocial
Theory. The paper will be concluded by presenting an understanding regarding all the aspect
of Psychological theories of education.
Discussion
Cognitive Development Theory:
The extensive theory regarding development and nature of the human intelligence is
known as the Cognitive development theory. The theory of cognitive development was
developed by Jean Piaget, a developmental psychologist from Switzerland. The theory was
developed during 1896 to 1980. The cognitive developmental theory assesses nature of the
knowledge for the human beings. The construction, acquiring process and application of
nature of the knowledge is understood through the implication of this theory. The theory of
cognitive development is also known as the developmental stage theory (Bjorklund &

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Causey, 2017). Jean Piaget was astonished by an incidence where he realized the behavioral
pattern of children. Children from different ages usually commit diverge errors during the
process of responding to problems. Piaget reflected that the children depicts different
behavior or practices than little adults as they communicate with words whatever they have in
mind at that time. With the development of the understanding regarding the behavior of
children, Piaget explained that children portray efficient cognitive abilities. The recognition
led to the aspect of cognitive developmental stages. The four stages of cognitive
developmental theory was aligned with the different ages of the children. In assessing the
four stages of cognitive developmental theory, Piaget identified that children understands the
world by the word, reasoning approach and actions (Taylor, 2016). The four stages of
cognitive developmental theory involves sensorimotor stage, which includes the period of
birth to two years, preoperational stage depicting the age group of two to seven. Another two
phases involves concrete operational stage with age seven to eleven and formal operational
stage with age 12 and above.
Multiple Intelligence Theory:
The categorization of human intelligence is facilitated by the Multiple Intelligence
Theory. The differentiation is executed into different modalities. The modalities negates the
dependency of intelligence on single usual ability. The theory of Multiple Intelligence Theory
is developed by Howard Gardner. The theory depicts the alignment of intelligence ‘modality’
with eight criteria. Eight criteria includes, potential for the brain isolation through the brain
damage, region in the evolutionary history, existence of the core operations, principles
involving the susceptibility to symbolic expression (encoding). The criteria also includes a
discrete developmental progression, presence of prodigies, savants and exceptional
individuals. Support from the experimental psychology and from the psychometric findings.
Earlier intelligence was only limited to the understanding of IQ assessments. However, with