Answer To: I must write a three-page paper about Cognitivism, Piaget, Cognitive Development and Situated...
David answered on Dec 25 2021
Running head: COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
COGNITIVISM, PIAGET, AND SITUATED LEARNING
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COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT 2
Cognitivism, Piaget, and Situated Learning
An individual’s cognitive development is as important as his/her physical development.
Psychological/mental development is essential for an individual to experience a quality life, and
that is one reason why today the medical world is thoroughly concerned about learning more
about the processes of cognitive development. It is in respect of the cognitive development
process that the name of Piaget, as a theorist, deserves special mention, and it is in relation to the
process of obtaining knowledge about cognitive development that the terms cognitivism and
situated learning must be properly analyzed and explored. It is the intricate relationship between
Piaget’s theory, cognitivism, and situated learning that can throw enough light on the topic of
cognitive development that may eventually make one understand the complicated process in a
simpler manner.
Cognitivism, as a theory, emerged as a response to the theory of behaviorism that was
long used to interpret an individual’s way of mental growth and development. Cognitivism
should be considered as a revolution in the field of psychological studies that replaced
behaviorism in the 1960s (Davey, 2015). Cognitivism “focuses on the inner mental activities –
opening the “blackbox” of the human mind is valuable and necessary for understanding how
people learn. Mental processes such as thinking, memory, knowing, and problem-solving need to
be explored” (Davey, 2015). Though cognitivism emerged as a replacement to behaviorism; just
like the behaviorist psychologists the cognitivists believed that every study regarding learning
should be objective in nature and that empirical research should form the basis of every learning
theory (Kristinsdottir, 2008). With the evolution of the cognitivist model, today, almost every
conitivist psychologists believe that (through the observation of different responses made by
different individuals to different stimuli), “they can draw inferences about the nature of the
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internal cognitive processes that produce those responses” (Kristinsdottir, 2008). Moreover, it is
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