Question

What do you mean by Congnitive/Cortstructivism and briefly explain it.

Answer 1

This perspective is a combination of Gestalt approach and structuralist approach. This approach focuses on congnitive i.e. how we know the world through thinking understanding, perceiving, memorising and problem solving etc.

• Jean Piaget and Vygotsky are the pioneers of this approach.

• Cognitive psychologists view the human mind as an information processing syatem like a computer.

• Mind is considered to receive, process, transform, store and retrieve information.

• Mind is dynamic and human beings actively construct their minds as they interact with the social and physcial environment and interaction between adults and children.

This perspective is a combination of Gestalt approach and structuralist approach.