Introduction to Cognitive and Developmental Psychology

INTRODUCTION TO COGNITIVE AND
DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

Table of content
• INTRODUCTION
• Piaget's theory of cognitive development
• Contributions and drawbacks of Piaget's theory of cognitive development in relation to child development
• Drawbacks of Piaget's theory of cognitive development in relation to child development
• Broad applications of Piaget's theories
• Educational application of Piaget's theories
• CONCLUSION
• REFRENCES

INTRODUCTION
Cognitive development is the area of neuroscience and psychology concerned with progress of children in context of data processing, lingual communication and
other facets of cognitive psychology. Cognitive psychology is defined as the study of various mental procedures such as creativity, language use, problem solving and
reasoning. Jean Piaget is a central figure in this field and is credited with creating theory of cognitive development. This report focuses on understanding the
educational implication of this theory.

Piaget's theory of cognitive development
• Jean Piaget was a Swiss developmental psychologist who published the theory of cognitive
development in the year 1936. This theory is based various assumptions about children which
are mentioned below:
• Children form knowledge on the basis of their experience.
• Children posses the capability to self-learn.
• Children do not require rewards to learn and are motivated towards learning.
• The reasoning of children is different from adults as their point of view is different.
 The most effective method of understanding reasoning of children is to understand their pint of
view (Arnett and et. al., 2020).