Stages Of Cognitive Development Research Articles

Theory Of Cognitive Development By Jean Piaget

Although many core themes and concepts unite the field of cognitive development, it is a wide and varied field, particularly when it comes to cognitive development in early. Piaget proposed four cognitive developmental stages for children, including sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and the formal operational stage. Although Piaget’s theories have had a great impact on developmental psychology, his notions have not been fully accepted without critique. Piaget’s theory has some shortcomings, including overestimating the ability of adolescence and underestimating infant’s capacity. Piaget also neglected cultural and social interaction factors in the development of children’s cognition and thinking ability. Cognitive development occurs at several stages during childhood. As a result, cognitive development studies the nature of child development in terms of how they gain conscious control over their intellect and behavior. Piaget contributions, particularly in regards to the process of education among children and transferring cognition into psychology, have had a significant effect on the science of child development. Keywords: Cognitive Development, Child Development

Associations Between Gross Motor Coordination and Executive Functions: Considering the Sex Difference in Chinese Middle-Aged School Children.

Considering that motor and cognitive processes are intertwined and inhibit or help each other throughout life and that primary school age is one of the most critical stages of children's cognitive and motor development, this study aimed to investigate the relationship between executive functions and gross motor skills in Chinese children aged 9–10 years, as well as gender differences. The flanker task, the 1-back task, the more-odd shifting task, and the test of gross motor coordination (Körperkoordinationtest für Kinder) were used to collect data on executive functions and gross motor coordination. The results were as follows. First, there was a weak association between gross motor coordination and the inhibition reaction time in the congruent test and the reaction time of working memory (r = −0.181 to −0.233), but no association was found between gross motor coordination and cognitive flexibility. Second, a weak-to-moderate correlation was presented between the move sideways test and the inhibition reaction time in the congruent test and the reaction time in the refreshing test of the working memory (r = −0.211 to −0.330). Finally, gender influenced on the relationship between gross motor coordination and the reaction time of both inhibition (βGender = −0.153, p < 0.05) and working memory (βGender = −0.345, p < 0.01). To conclude, our results suggest that children with better motor coordination skills require less reaction time, especially girls, and this association was more substantial than in boys. The finding supports the current assertion that there are commonalities between gross motor coordination and cognitive control by showing the relationship between gross motor coordination and complex cognitive processes (executive function) in preadolescent children.

Stages in Theory and Experiment. Fuzzy-Structuralism and Piagetian Stages

The theory of stages in cognitive development is one of Jean Piaget’s enduring legacies, but it has also borne the brunt of much criticism. It maintains that intelligence develops in an invariant sequence of stages, and, in this paper, I situate Piaget’s conceptions of stages historically and functionally in the context of genetic epistemology, his research programme. I highlight some of the objections raised, and I show how the disparity between the conceptions of theoretical and empirical stages in Piaget’s theory is commensurate with the fuzzy-structuralist model of the relationship between theory and empirical research conceived by Rudolf Seising on the basis of Lofti A. Zadeh’s fuzzy set theory. Further, I propose a fuzzy conception of the notion ‘stage’, which not only captures its ordinary use in fuzzy space between theory and empirical research but also does justice to both the construct validity and quantitative variability of stages in empirical research. I therefore open a fuzzy-structuralist perspective on the Crisis of Variability afflicting Piaget’s stage theory during the 1970s and conclude retrospectively that the rift it caused was not necessary since the invariance and variability of stages is not irreconcilable.

Intimate Partner Violence and Child and Adolescent Cognitive Development: A Systematic Review

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a public health and human rights issue, with millions of children affected worldwide. While several reviews have explored the emotional-behavioural functioning of children exposed to IPV, this review aimed to examine the relationship between children's exposure to IPV and their cognitive development, and to identify associated factors such as aspects of parenting. The databases MEDLINE, PsycInfo, EMBASE, Family and Society Studies Worldwide, CINAHL, and ERIC were searched using key words related to IPV, such as domestic, family, partner, interparental, spousal, marital, violence, abuse, aggression, assault, combined with key words related to cognitive functioning, such as neuropsychological, executive, intelligence, learning, memory, and key words related to children and adolescents. A total of 38 studies met the criteria for review which included reporting an estimate of the relationship between IPV and cognition using direct assessments of cognitive functioning. Approximately 70% of studies found a relationship between IPV and poorer cognitive functioning, with general IQ the most frequently assessed domain of functioning, followed by verbal abilities and academic skills. Most studies assessed skills during early childhood, with fewer studies assessing children during middle childhood and adolescence. Results were consistent across cognitive domains and developmental stages. In terms of factors associated with IPV and cognition, a range of demographic, individual, and family factors were included, with several studies exploring mediating and moderating mechanisms. The findings suggest that IPV in childhood is associated with poorer cognitive skills across a range of domains. Implications for policy, practice and research are discussed.

Social Influence and the Normalization of Surveillance Capitalism: Legislation for the Next Generation

Human personalities, characters, and habits are socially instructed and learned, traditionally from others, but also with others <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">[1]</xref> . Either way, social influence plays a fundamental role in human development <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref2" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">[2]</xref> , affecting individuals at any age and from any background <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">[3]</xref> . According to Piaget’s stages of cognitive development, in the preoperational stage, the primary sources of such influence are parents, teachers, and siblings, and in subsequent stages, both peers and socially constructed knowledge gatekeepers (i.e., schools and newspapers) become increasingly important. In the preoperational stage, infants demonstrate animism, that is, they tend to assign life and feeling to nonliving things. Consequently, they can believe that “The Internet” is a real person and, being equally unable to differentiate between advertising and other media content, believe what “it” is telling them.

Adolescence Sexuality and Fertility in Nigeria

Adolescence is a transitional stage of physical, emotional, and cognitive human development occurring before the onset of puberty and ending by adulthood. Sexuality, the expression of interest, orientation, and preference, is a normal part of adolescence. Adolescent sexuality encompasses multiple factors, such as developing intimate partnerships, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, and culture. Adolescent sexuality has changed over the past 50 years, with adolescents now reaching physical maturity earlier and marrying later. Puberty marks the obvious physical development in early to middle adolescence and is seen as the time for potential onset of sexual thoughts and experimentation. Mostly, legislation does not explicitly criminalize consensual sexual conduct between adolescents, and this leaves a gray area to be filled in by social and cultural norms that perceive adolescent sexual conduct negatively. Most state concentrate more on penalty than on initiatives to tackle the structural background of sexual inter course-related harms. Focusing on increasing access to youth friendly services that respect adolescents’ rights to health services and privacy will be important to ensure that adolescents seek and receive these services.

Four Children's Motivations in Memorizing the Qur’an

Memorizing the Qur’an is one of the important efforts in the life of a Muslim. To create a generation that has a strong relationship with the Book of Allah, it is important for children to start memorizing the Qur’an from an early age. However, the process of memorizing the Qur’an is not easy, especially for children who are still at their stage of physical and cognitive development. the importance of motivation to start memorizing the Qur’an. This study aims to analyze children's motivation in memorizing the Qur’an. This study used a qualitative method with a case study approach, research data were taken through direct interviews with six informants. All interview and observation data were then analyzed thematically using Miles and Huberman patterns. Overall the results of the analysis show that there are four children's motivations in memorizing the Qur’an at the Rumah Tahfiz. The four motivations are i) encouragement from parents, ii) self-desire, iii) interested in memorizing the Qur'an, and iv) enjoying memorizing the Qur’an. The results of this study can be used as initial data for future researchers in examining different issues related to this problem and various other issues that are relevant to this context.

A pedagogy of fluvial geomorphology: Incorporating scaffolding and active learning into tertiary education courses

AbstractThis commentary focusses on the pedagogy of a fluvial geomorphologist. It outlines some education psychology and pedagogy theories that can be used to inform the design and delivery of a third year undergraduate fluvial geomorphology and river management course and two professional development units for industry. A worked example is used to demonstrate how scaffolded learning (including Piaget's stages of cognitive development and Vygotsky's zone of proximal development theory), and active learning techniques can be integrated and applied in practice. The author then provides some personal reflections and recommendations that others (both geomorphologists and non‐geomorphologists) may find useful in developing their own pedagogy in tertiary education, irrespective of career stage.

Stage of Cognitive Mathematics Students Development Based on Piaget's Theory Reviewing from Personality Type

This study aims to examine the suitability of Piaget's stage of cognitive development in terms of personality type for class X students of SMA Wachid Hasyim 2 Taman. The subjects of this study were 25 students with ages between 12 to 16 years. This study uses the Test of Logical Operations (TLO) instrument in mathematics and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) test. The TLO consists of 14 questions and students are given 45 minutes to answer all questions, while the MBTI contains 60 statements and students are given 30 minutes to give statements that match their personality. The results showed that 28.5% of students were extroverted in the early concrete operations stage and 71.5% in the late concrete operations stage. While 27.2% of students were introverted at the initial concrete operation stage and 72.8% at the final concrete operation stage. The average score of Piaget's TOL has the same value for extroverted and introverted students, namely 47, which means that the average student tends to be in the final concrete stage. The difference in understanding between the average extroverted and introverted students in the compatible type, where the average extrovert student has high understanding while introverted students have sufficient understanding.

INTELLECTUAL COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT OF RILEY’S CHARACTER IN INSIDE OUT (2015): A CHILD PSYCHOLOGY STUDY

Abstract&#x0D; The purpose of this paper is to identify Riley’s cognitive development and the factors that influence the process. Riley was the main character of Pete Docter’s movie: “Inside Out” where the researcher took data from. This is an animated movie that describes the development process and way of thinking of every human being so that it will form a character and action. In this qualitative study, the researcher used the Psychology of The Child theory by Jean Piaget (1969). The data used in this study is a movie script and the movie. The researcher found that the main character, Riley Andersen, has several stages of cognitive development based on her actions and experiences. Furthermore, there are factors that influence the cognitive development process in Riley. Finally, the researcher found four stages and factors that influence Riley’s cognitive development process. The process of cognitive development can be seen from Riley’s actions when she was born until she grew as a good child.&#x0D; &#x0D; Keywords: Child psychology, Jean Piaget Psychology of The Child, Cognitive Development, The Stages of Cognitive Development

ANALISIS METODE PEMBELAJARAN DARING SELAMA PANDEMI COVID-19 TERHADAP PERKEMBANGAN KOGNITIF ANAK BERDASAR TEORI PERKEMBANGAN KOGNITIF ANAK PIAGET

This study aims to examine the analysis of e-learning methods during the COVID-19 pandemic on children's cognitive development based on Piaget's theory of cognitive development. Education for children is a systematic effort to deliver children to a bright future. In essence, every child is the future successor of the civilization of the Indonesian nation with its role as a supply of human resources. Whereas on the other hand, efforts to fulfill children's rights to receive education when related to current conditions have turned out to be experiencing obstacles due to the Covid-19 pandemic that has hit all parts of the world, including Indonesia. Official data released by the Government of Indonesia as of August 15, 2021, as many as 213 countries have been infected with Covid-19, of which 139,226,143 have been confirmed positive and 2,989,984 have died,. If we take some of the characteristics of children at the stage of Piaget's cognitive development associated with online school policies, then there are things that need to be anticipated, namely the cognitive phase of children directly requiring school education, even though literally schools are interpreted only as institutions or buildings used for learning activities. and teach according to the level of education (elementary school, middle school and high school), but actually the school is not only an institution that provides subject matter and physical buildings but also as a laboratory for children's mindset and mentality. This study uses the library method where in collecting data information with documentation techniques, namely seeking data on relevant matters from various sources such as documents, books, scientific journals and news. The result of this research is that online learning on children's cognitive development directly experiences obstacles. This is evidenced from the concepts and theories of Piaget's cognitive development where the hallmark of cognitive development is the existence of strong interpersonal and social relationships with the environment. Because basically the learning process is not only limited to the process of delivering information and knowledge, but also there must be reciprocal interaction between participants and teachers so that there is a change in behavior and knowledge in a concrete direction.&#x0D; &#x0D; Keyword: covid-19, Education, e-learning methods, Piaget, school

English Intercultural Tutorial for University Students Majoring in Japanese

This paper is the first attempt to present the implementation results of the language-learning tutorial based on intercultural and communicative approaches in a classical university in Ukraine. The authors present a new tutorial method for teaching English at Departments of the Far East Languages in Classical Universities of Ukraine. This method is aimed to facilitate the acquisition of essential aspects of knowledge about a country as a regional and cultural subject as well as to improve students’ English speaking and conversational skills. The experimental research involved 2nd and 3rd year university students majoring in the Japanese and English languages. The authors proposed the original design of the tutorial to be used both for English speaking practice and as a part of the course content. Considering the psycholinguistic peculiarities of Ukrainian students to percept and understand the English and East Asian languages, the tutorial under review stimulates students’ cognitive activity during the English learning process and when developing sociocultural competence with regard to the Far East. Compare and Contrast activities in the English language classroom can create a favourable learning environment resulting in students gaining knowledge and acquiring skills necessary for proficient English users. At the same time, they get the opportunity to pick up more information about Japan using the sources about the country available in the English language. The ability to categorise and compare things in terms of their differences and similarities corresponds to the main stages of cognitive development. Compare and contrast as teaching and learning strategies can be applied when teaching monologic and dialogic production, in particular when discussing similarities and differences of cultural, natural, geographical, historical, political and art objects of Ukraine and Japan. In this article, the interdependence between the use of the tutorial method and academic achievements in English speaking competence has been proved, since the students have significantly improved their speaking fluency in English about the Far East.

Antimicrobial Stewardship in College and University Health Settings: A Public Health Opportunity.

Antimicrobial resistance poses a significant threat to public health and safety across the globe. Many factors contribute to antibiotic resistance, most especially are the concerns of excessive prescribing and misuse of antibiotics. Because patient expectations for antibiotics may contribute to prescriber pressures, experts recommend targeting antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) education efforts towards prescribers as well as patients in outpatient settings. Undergraduate university students are a unique and promising target population for AMS efforts because they are in a transformative life stage of social, cognitive, and physical development in which they are learning to independently care for themselves without the presence or influence of parents. By introducing AMS education during this transition, university students may adopt positive antibiotic use behaviors that they will carry throughout their lives. Not only will their personal health be improved, but widespread adoption of AMS in university settings may have a broader effect on public health of present and future generations. Despite public health opportunities, minimal research has examined AMS in university health settings. This article explores current evidence on knowledge, attitudes, and use of antibiotics among university students and discusses opportunities for AMS initiatives in college and university health settings.

Magic Hats and Teddy Bear picnics: Language and visuospatial lateralisation tasks for children

ABSTRACT The behavioural outcomes associated with atypical cerebral lateralization during the early stages of cognitive development is an interesting research venture. However, there are few tasks for assessing lateralization in young children. The current study describes the Magic Hat task and the Teddy Bear Picnic task, which were designed to measure the lateralization of language and visuospatial attention, respectively, in children as young as three years old. Forty-five adults were recruited to complete the child-friendly tasks as well as the Word Generation and Landmark tasks whilst functional Transcranial Doppler ultrasound (fTCD) measured cerebral blood flow velocity. As expected, at the group level, the Magic Hat task produced left hemisphere lateralization, and the Teddy Bear Picnic task produced right hemisphere lateralization. Both tasks demonstrated high internal reliability (α > .80). The laterality indices produced by the Magic Hat task correlated with the Word Generation task, ρ = .52, p = .001. Likewise, the laterality indices produced by the Teddy Bear Picnic task correlated with the Landmark task, ρ = .45, p = .028. Thus, the Magic Hat and Teddy Bear Picnic tasks are reliable and valid measures of language and visuospatial lateralization, suitable for toddlers and young children using fTCD.

Cognitive Skills in Basic Mathematics of College Freshmen in the Philippines

Many students consider mathematics as the most dreaded subject in their curriculum, so much so that the term “math phobia” or “math anxiety” is practically a part of clinical psychological literature. This symptom is widespread and students suffer mental disturbances when facing mathematical activity because understanding mathematics is a great task for them. This paper described the students’ cognitive skills performance in Basic Mathematics based on the following logical operations: Classification, Seriation, Logical Multiplication, Compensation, Ratio and Proportional Thinking, Probability Thinking and Correlation Thinking as it serves a critical element of teaching and learning, that is determining the current position of the learners’ mathematical capacity. Its implications for mathematics education were also revealed. A descriptive quantitative design was used in this study. The study included 1011 first-year college students from six state universities in the Philippines who were enrolled in the Bachelor of Science of Secondary Education Program during the first semester of the Academic Year 2019-2020. This study made use of the teacher-made test called the Test on Logical Operations. Findings revealed that the cognitive skills achievement of the first year BSE students from different state universities in the Philippines falls under the category of late concrete operational stage. As a result, students are unable to perform the logical operational skills expected of their age. At their age level, they are expected to be under the formal operational stage based on Piaget’s stages of cognitive development. These findings revealed a weak mathematical education foundation among students which requires immediate attention. This reality should be recognized by educational planners and implementers when making curricular and other instructional decisions.

Should Adolescents be Included in Emerging Psychedelic Research?

Recent evidence shows significant potential for therapies involving psychedelic substances such as psilocybin and MDMA to improve clinical outcomes for patients experiencing various mental disorders. However, research to date focuses almost exclusively on adults. I argue that adolescents should be included in research into psychedelic therapies. First, I demonstrate the pressing need for novel interventions to address the growing mental health burden of adolescents, and I draw on empirical evidence to show that research into psychedelic therapies presents an opportunity to address this shortfall. Secondly, I argue that psychedelics pose low risk to young patients, particularly relative to existing psychiatric medications. I then address two major concerns specific to adolescent contexts. First, I address the risks of using psychedelic substances at earlier stages of physiological and cognitive development. I note that the lack of understanding of the risks underscores the need for including adolescents in research. I then address the added complexity of consent in the adolescent context. I highlight some additional concerns that should be addressed in an “enhanced” informed consent process for adolescents and defend the view that capable adolescents should be able to consent to psychedelic interventions. I ultimately hold that including adolescents in emerging psychedelic research has the potential to substantiate innovative treatments that could improve their clinical outcomes, long-term mental health and quality of life.

THE CONSTRUCTION OF GENDER AND IDENTITIES IN PTB ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS OF SINGLE NATIONAL CURRICULUM

The study's main goal is to investigate the relevance between the objectives set by the government of Pakistan behind the implementation of the single national curriculum and the presented content in the English textbooks (Grade 2-5) of Punjab Textbook Board under SNC criteria. The study looks at how the English textbooks (PTB) can help people achieve the said three objectives out of seven, such as, upward social mobility, conforming to international trends, and equity in education. This study aims to focus whether the content of PTB English textbooks (Grade 2-5) is appropriate to meet the expected objectivity through the perspective of gender representation, which is very much significant to develop a balanced society. The study is not being taken up under the umbrella of feminist movement but in the context of observing neutrality among the gender representation that will ultimately lead to obtain the said objectives. It’s a scientifically recognized fact that the early stage of cognitive development plays a major role in constructing the individuals’ ideologies, gender-based concepts and their roles in society. This study aims to examine the gender representation and portrayal of male and female through their occupational roles, home chores, sports and social activities and adjectives used to describe them. A mixed method approach as a research method has been chosen for the project, Chi square test has been applied to the quantitative data to examine the difference between observed frequencies and expected frequencies of gender representation through determined categories in the content of the English textbooks (Grade 2-5) of PTB. The results revealed that women in English textbooks (Grade 2-5) of PTB are underrepresented as men are more depicted in number of occupational and social roles and they are not responsible for domestic chores, they have been presented as providers and women have been shown as helpers and delicate creature of the society. At the end of this research some recommendations are suggested required to the content and solutions to the existing issues in these books to make it more fruitful and a balanced one.

THE CONSTRUCTION OF GENDER AND IDENTITIES IN PTB ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS OF SINGLE NATIONAL CURRICULUM

The study's main goal is to investigate the relevance between the objectives set by the government of Pakistan behind the implementation of the single national curriculum and the presented content in the English textbooks (Grade 2-5) of Punjab Textbook Board under SNC criteria. The study looks at how the English textbooks (PTB) can help people achieve the said three objectives out of seven, such as, upward social mobility, conforming to international trends, and equity in education. This study aims to focus whether the content of PTB English textbooks (Grade 2-5) is appropriate to meet the expected objectivity through the perspective of gender representation, which is very much significant to develop a balanced society. The study is not being taken up under the umbrella of feminist movement but in the context of observing neutrality among the gender representation that will ultimately lead to obtain the said objectives. It’s a scientifically recognized fact that the early stage of cognitive development plays a major role in constructing the individuals’ ideologies, gender-based concepts and their roles in society. This study aims to examine the gender representation and portrayal of male and female through their occupational roles, home chores, sports and social activities and adjectives used to describe them. A mixed method approach as a research method has been chosen for the project, Chi square test has been applied to the quantitative data to examine the difference between observed frequencies and expected frequencies of gender representation through determined categories in the content of the English textbooks (Grade 2-5) of PTB. The results revealed that women in English textbooks (Grade 2-5) of PTB are underrepresented as men are more depicted in number of occupational and social roles and they are not responsible for domestic chores, they have been presented as providers and women have been shown as helpers and delicate creature of the society. At the end of this research some recommendations are suggested required to the content and solutions to the existing issues in these books to make it more fruitful and a balanced one.

Development and use of Test Instruments to measure Algebraic Reasoning Based on Cognitive Systems in Marzano’s Taxonomy

&lt;p style="text-align:justify"&gt;Algebraic reasoning involves representation, generalization, formalization of patterns and order in all aspects of mathematics. Hence, the focus of algebraic reasoning is on patterns, functions, and the ability to analyze situations with the help of symbols. The purpose of this study was to develop a test instrument to measure students' algebraic reasoning abilities based on cognitive systems in Marzano's taxonomy. The cognitive system in Marzano's taxonomy consists of four levels, including retrieval, comprehension, analysis, and knowledge utilization. According to the stage of cognitive development, students are at the level of knowledge utilization. At this level, students can make decisions, solve problems, generates and test hypotheses, as well as carry out investigations that are in line with indicators of algebraic reasoning abilities. The stages in developing the test instrument were based on three phases: preliminary investigation phase, prototyping phase, and assessment phase. The study obtains a set of valid and reliable algebraic reasoning test instruments for students based on the cognitive system in Marzano's taxonomy. Through the development of an algebraic reasoning test instrument based on Marzano's taxonomy, students can build' thinking habits so that active learning exercises occurs.&lt;/p&gt;

Are You Frightened? Children’s Cognitive and Affective Reactions to News Coverage of School Shootings

ABSTRACT As news involving violence can frighten children, people worry that news portrayals of gun violence are often appalling. Based on cultivation theory and the theory of cognitive development, this study examined parents’ perceptions of the children’s exposure and reactions to news coverage of school shootings. A survey of U.S. parents (N = 266) demonstrated that children’s exposure to news coverage of school shootings is positively related to children’s frightened responses, according to the parents’ perspective. Parents reported that children more exposed to the news are more likely to perceive the world as dangerous. Children’s frightened reactions were a mediator that explains the relationship. Parents also answered that depending on children’s cognitive developmental stages, children showed different coping strategies to frightening news. Parental mediation did not have a significant relationship with children’s frightened responses. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed.