Analyzing Children’s Cognitive Development

Prior to beginning work on this discussion,

• Watch the VLS video: Cognitive Development: Infant Block Play (Links to an external site.) (Virtual Lab School, n.d.).

As presented in your text, there are several perspectives which
attempt to explain how learning occurs; but regardless of the
theoretical perspective, cognitive development is highly dependent on
experiences for development. You have been assigned by the Analyzing
Children’s Cognitive Development Pre-Activity to one theoretical
perspective of cognitive development: Piagetian.

In your discussion post,

• Provide a brief analysis of the behaviors you observed in the Cognitive Development: Infant Block Play (Links to an external site.)
  video based on the theoretical perspective to which you’ve been
  assigned. Refer to the table below for some of the key ideas or terms
  that are associated with each perspective. These should be included in
  your initial post.
• Propose at least two strategies or activities that could be used to
  support development and is consistent with the theoretical perspective
  to which you were assigned.
• Discuss how you can involve the children’s family or community to
  extend the learning for one of your strategies you proposed above.