Contrast the views of Piaget and Bandura on how children develop.
According to Jean Piaget, cognitive development in children is largely a result of influences of ‘nature’ that is the genetic biological makeup determines much of the course of the development of a child’s body, and cognitive abilities and learning. However, for Albert Bandura, much of the development of behaviour and cognitive performance in children is a result of imitation or observation of behaviours of model or significant figures such as parents, teachers, siblings or peers. Thus for Bandura, Development is more of a result of environmental or nurture’ factors.
Moreover, Piaget based his theory of development on abstract reasoning and other unobservable congnitive functioning whereas for Bandura’s studies of children, development of observational learning was based on observable overt behaviours.
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