Conclusion

Conclusion

Researchers have made amazing contribution to the school of psychology. One of these was Jean Piaget and his theoryon cognitive development. Jean Piaget, the Swiss biologist, philosopher, psychologist, and educationist, is regarded as one of the most important child development researchers of modern times.Moreover, he was interested in knowledge and how children come to know their world. This was the one of main reason why he proposed this theory.

At the most general level, Piaget's theory was focused on the development of the intelligence due to the children adaptation to the environment. Moreover, Piaget identified three basic developmental process of the child. They are assimilation, accommodation and equilibration. Assimilation refers to children interpret incoming information to make it understandable within their exist mental structure. Where, accommodation is referred to the way in which children current understanding changes repose to new experiences or information. And equilibrium is three step process, where, first children failure to assimilate new information on the other hand, mental structure accommodates the new information in a way that creates a more advanced equilibrium.

Moreover, Piaget's general depiction includes four major stage. The first stage is sensorimotor stage. This stage is occurred between birth to the 2 years. The second stage is Preoperational stage, which is between 2 to 7 years. Third stage is Concrete operational stage is between 7 to 11 years. And the last stage of Piaget's cognitive development theory is formal operational theory, which is between 12 years and above.

However, Piaget's theory of cognitive development is a valuable and helpful guide to teacher in order to use in classrooms .Using this theory in a classroom, teachers and students can get benefit in several ways. Such as this theory helps teacher to assess the current level of the students and guild them in order to gain the new information. As well as, with the help of this theory teachers will be aware to create an effective lesson plans with cratering different level of students.