Components of the Behavioral and Cultural Approaches to Learning
Referencing Piaget: According to Piaget the child’s ability to think, reason and understand the world is rapidly growing during the first two years of life. Piaget introduced four theories: The sensorimotor stage (birth to 2 years) Babies from birth to 2 years of age use their senses and bodily movements to understand the world around them, which is why this stage is known as the sensorimotor stage. The preoperational stage (2–7 years) During this stage, children build on object permanence and continue to develop abstract mental processes. This means they can think about things beyond the physical world, such as things that happened in the past. The concrete operational stage (7–11 years) Piaget theorized that at this stage, children further develop and master abstract thought and become less egocentric. The formal operational stage (12+ years) In this final stage of cognitive development, children Referencing Vygotsky: Vygotsky agreed with Piaget that the development of cognitive ab