What is cognitive? Cognitive is how
people thought and understand. What is cognitive learning? A cognitive learning
theory is the function based on how a person processes and reasons information.
It is revolves around many factors including problem-solving skills, memory
retention, thinking skills and the perception of learned material.
The cognitive learning had his cycle
that was called the cognitive triangle which is, thought, behavior and feeling
for example a positive situation where the person see a dog, he say (thought) ;
what are nice dog! He automatically
pet the dog (behavior), both was happy (feeling) but remembered! What are we
thought, it is good or bad, and it was influence our behavior and feeling. The
psychologist named Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky was the first develop cognitive
development theories.
Jean Piaget developed his methods of
understanding children by observation and analyzed behavior through his
children. Piaget introduced four basic concept identified by the terms schema,
assimilation, accommodation and equilibration. Schema is the formation of
specific structure in minds which responses to stimuli. While assimilation is
the cognitive process by which the person integrates new perceptual matter or
stimulus events into existing schemata or patterns of behavior while accommodation
is encounter new stimulus, they may try to assimilate it into an existing
schema. Thus, after steps of assimilate and accommodation, Piaget named it,
equilibration which is cognitive balance whereas the development of abilities
process on children so, that’s why the children had different thinking ability.
While for intellectual development, Piaget divided intellectual development
into four steps. These include sensimotor intelligence (0-2 years),
preoperational thought (2-7 years), concrete operations (7-11 years) and formal
operations (11-15 years).
While
through Russian psychologist, Lev Vygotsky, he was introduced sociocultural
cognition. Vygotsky believed that mental activity is uniquely human beings to
develop their superior nervous activity that was derived from the cultural
activity of human beings for example, children experiencing their social
learning with adult as guidance. Vygotsky focused on connection between people
and the social cultural in which they act and interact in shared experience. Vygotsky
introduced three major themes which are social interaction towards parents,
siblings, peer and teachers. The second theme is the more knowledgeable other
(MKO) which is someone who has better understanding and had higher ability such
as teachers, coach, older adult, peers or computer and the last theme is the
zone of proximal development (ZPD) which means the distance between a student’s
ability to perform under guidance and the students ability to solve
independently. Zone of proximal development (ZPD) is a scaffolding to be
accepted in community and develop social interaction.
Conclusion
is, the comparison of approaches to children’s learning, cognitive development
and intelligence are, through Piaget, the maturation of children interact with
environmental experiences while through Vygotsky, children being interactionist
with skilled people but much stronger for culture. Furthermore, Piaget’s
development theory has stages while Vygotsky doesn’t. Through cognitive process
by sight of Piaget towards children are, the children often do assimilation,
accommodation, equilibration, organization, conservation and hypothetical-
deductive reasoning skills instead of Vygotsky’s sight which children be more
on discussion and reasoning through social interaction within skilled people.