Question

describing your favorite learning theory (cognitive development, behavioral, social cognitive, or information processing) and why it is your favorite. 500 words

Answer 1

• My favourite would be cognitive development theory.I love Piaget's theory of development.Now, Piaget wasn’t completely correct of course. He underestimated the abilities of babies and pretty much ignored the cultural and environmental aspects of development which Vygostsky stressed upon.
• But Piaget laid some fundamentals that we cannot ignore and he did not have the measurements we have now. He based his theory on observations which do fit.
• Development isn’t as stepwise as he thought it was, but it’s not completely linear either. It’s continuous with some spurts in it that coincide with some biological maturation. Experience also plays a large role, and in real-world settings these experiences cannot be gained until a certain age. For example, some experiences come when a child can move around the world (crawling, walking). But in the lab we have seen that if we help a child, for example help it move around, it will gain this experience despite its age.
• So, his ideas were incomplete and he missed some things here and there, but what he gave is still priceless. The stages he proposed can be used to roughly determine what a child can or cannot do at its age (and is used in many schools). By appending some stuff the theory is very useful in practice, but shouldn’t be seen as a perfect description of humans development, more like a reflection of ability.