MATURATION

“Maturing is aging” so it is the

process which we all pass to
develop, grow and change in
our lives, that mean while the
child grows and develops he
also learns new things and in
the process, because of that
he or she can do things and
task that he or she could not do
before.
 PIAGET’S FOUR STAGES OF COGNITIVE
DEVELOPMENT

SENSORIMOTOR PRE-OPERATIONAL CONCRETE FORMAL

STAGE STAGE
Piaget called this stage children use symbols (words
the 'sensorimotor' stage and images) to represent
because it is through the objects but they do not reason
senses and motor abilities logically. They also have the
that infants get a basic ability to pretend (to use an
understanding of the object to represent something
world around them. else). During this stage the
child is egocentric.
OPERATIONS
The child can think logically
about concrete objects and is
able to add and subtract. The
child also can understand
conversations.
OPERATIONS
The adolescent can think
about abstract and
theoretical concepts and
use logic to come up with
creative solutions to
problems.
 BASIS OF LANGUAGE

Social interactionists
gave more importance
to the development of
language through
interaction with other
people “language
development must
occur in the context of
meaningful social
interactions”, even
biological and cognitive
processes are
necessary for the
language development.
 LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT

“Language is the mirror of thinking” so

that means language is a symbolic tool
that we use to communicate our thoughts
and represent our cognitive processes.

Some “Language of thought theories” tell

us that mental representation has
linguistic structure. Thoughts are
"sentences in the head", it refers that
they are inside of a mental language.

But the definition about the relation between language and thought has been a hard subject of discussion,
and we can still say that there are two theories; those who believe that language determines thought and
others who think that thought determines language.