PIAGET’S PREDICTIONS ON CHILD’S BEHAVIOR

Piaget’s Predictions on Child’s Behavior

Piagets predictions on Child’s behavior

Required Readings

Arlin, P. K. (1975). Cognitive development in adulthood: A fifth stage? Developmental Psychology, 11(5), 602–606.
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Carey, S., Zaitchik, D., & Bascandziev, I. (2015). Theories of development: In dialog with Jean Piaget. Developmental Review, 38, 36–54. doi:10.1016/j.dr.2015.07.003
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Elkind, D. (1967). Egocentrism in adolescence. Child Development, 38(4), 1025–1034.
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McLeod, S. (2015). Jean Piaget. Simply Psychology. Retrieved from http://www.simplypsychology.org/piaget.html

Miller, P. H. (2010). Piaget’s theory: Past, present, and future. In Goswami, U. (Ed.), The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Child Cognitive Development (2nd ed.) (pp. 649–672). Malden, MA: John Wiley & Sons.
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Required Media

Laureate Education (Producer). (2017a). Cognitive development examples [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.

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Piaget defined the cognitive development by a child by forming a model of the world through the various stages.  Before his discoveries, the assumption that existed was that children are less competent thinkers than adults. To his invention, cognitive development involves reorganization of the process in the brain as the child matures biologically…

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