Piaget Theory Final

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Piaget was one of the greatest psychologists of all times who presented great work in many dimensions of psychology while his theory of cognitive development received particular attention due to its broad theoretical scope. He mentioned that from the age of two to seven years, a child goes through several stages of cognitive development that eventually define what he would turn out to be (Levine and Joyce 15). Three concepts from the theory including egocentrism, animism and make-believe play will be discussed in this paper from my childhood experiences.
Egocentrism is a stage when the child is not capable of thinking beyond his existence and happens to believe that everything revolves around him. For instance, if the child has a liking of cookies, it is common for him to assume that his mother would like them as well. When I think about my childhood, I remember having that phase in my life when my viewpoint was too parallel, and I was unable to take a look at the bigger picture. Whenever I used to see a child crying, I usually gave him one of my toys, assuming that it is enough to calm him down.
Another thing I used to do at a younger age was making live plays and pretending that toys or dolls around me are alive. I remember playing when I used to be a teacher and pretend my dolls to be my students. In some instance, I even pretended to have a live audience sitting on the chairs in front of me without even using any dolls. Animism is a belief when a child would assume objects to be alive and capable of doing things.

For instance, I remember one time accidentally hitting my elbow with the door and hitting it with my foot because I was blaming the door for that. All in all, there are many instances I remember that are related to the three ideas of egocentrism, animism, and make-believe play Piaget mentioned in his cognitive development theory.

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Levine, Laura E., and Joyce Munsch. Child Development: An Active Learning Approach: An Active Learning Approach. Sage, 2010.