3 Questions to Answer

 If there is a collection of ten wooden beads,

eight beads are brown and two are white. Are
there more brown beads or more wooden
beads?
 If all children are human beings, and if all

human beings are living creatures, then must

all children be living creatures?
 If all children are basketballs, and if all

basketballs are jelly beans, then must all

children be jelly beans?
Cognitive Development
Jean Piaget
Basic Assumptions
 Jean Piaget, a Swiss developmentalist
 Theory of cognitive development
 Development of logical thinking

Assumptions about child cognitive development

1. Children are active and motivated learners
2. Children construct knowledge from their
experiences
3. Children learn through two complementary
processes of assimilation and accommodation
Basic Assumptions
 Interaction with one’s physical and social
environment is essential for cognitive
development
 The process of equilibration promotes

progression towards increasingly more

complex levels of thoughts
 Cognitive development can proceed only after

certain genetically controlled neurological

changes occur.