Question

Write a 2-3 page paper in which you summarize the strengths and weaknesses of Piaget’s stages of cognitive development and Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory of development. Describe how cognitive and sociocultural development support language development. In your paper you should address: The strengths and weaknesses of Piaget’s theories. The strengths and weaknesses of Vygotsky’s theories. Identify the elements of each theory that you think are the strongest and/or the most problematic, and explain why you think so. How do cognitive and sociocultural development support language development? What should caregivers look for to confirm that a child is progressing in their language acquisition (ages 1-3)?

Answer 1

One of the major flaws that is evident and has been pointed ulout by sundry critics about Piaget stages of cognitive development is that the stages might be a little stacatto and they do no give the fluidity that stages might boast. Also, that he might have underestimated the efficiency of childrens growth in the earlier stages.

His strengths are the coinage and the elucidation of many of the stages in an apt and concise manner without much difficulty and with operationalization of terms to fit them accordingly.

This stage is quite necessary to understand the development of language within a child as it aims to comprehend the infant cognizance of items with respect to one self and with respect to the itemz itself in isolation, which shows the subcultural aspects of a language.

Caregivers should look for object permanency and for egocentric behavior in language and for symbolic representation of objects.

Vygotskys theories explained the crux of socio cultural interactions and how children develop their cognitive finesse. Vygotskys theories had sundry critical flaws as there weren't many hypothesis stated that could be tested and or measured, making the reliability and validity of his theory questionable.

His work did seem like a good piece of literature but needs to be tested to know it veribility.