COGNITION & DEVELOPMENT
Piaget’s & Vygotsky’s theories of cognitive development - task
- Listen to the podcast on Piaget’s & Vygotsky’s theories of cognitive development and makes notes as you do, that will allow you to construct mind maps on the two following headings:
1] Piaget’s theory; including reference to functional invariants (the processes of adaptation & equilibration) and variant structures (schema & operations) and Piaget’s four stages of cognitive development
2] Vygotsky’s theory; including reference to the cultural level, the interpersonal level, the zone of proximal development, scaffolding and semiotics
- You may find that you need to listen to the podcast more than once to achieve this