Read the Piaget’s Enduring Contribution to Developmental Psychology, On Major Developments in Preschoolers’ Imagination, and The Timing and Quality of Early Experiences Combine to Shape Brain Architecture: Working Paper No. 5 (Links to an external site.) articles. Also, review the videos: Play: A Vygotskian approach and Piaget’s Stages of Development.
This week you will be creating three activities that address cognitive development in the age groups assigned. These will become part of the infant room, early childhood room, and adolescent room of your center.
Using Piaget’s, Vygotsy’s, and/or Information processing theories of cognitive development, you will continue to build your Community Center Proposal by identifying activities for the assigned rooms that promotes cognitive development for children and adolescents. The activity must be focused on the cognitive milestones of the age group and must be clearly tied to specific theory. You must use at least one credible source. Your activities might be focused on object permanence for infants, conservation, egocentrism, or conservation for early childhood, or deductive reasoning for adolescence.
Focus on the primary developmental tasks of each age period. For each of the three activities, write a paragraph that addresses the following:
Describe the activity in some detail (provide more than just the name of the activity).
Identify the specific concept from cognitive development theory that supports the use of this activity.
Identify how the activity enhances cognitive development in the specific age group.