Theoretical Perspectives of Piaget’s and Skinner’s learning theory. (Part 1)

Among all learning theories one of them is the Piaget’s Theory of cognitive development. His idea is a model of how humans live in the world by acquiring the information. Certain thinking is easy for the adults and others are easy for the child. They are organization and adaptation. Humans are born with knowledge to organize thinking. Small children for example can look at objects or feel it when they it comes in touch with their hands. They cannot do both actions together. But when they grew up they can do both together and even both separately. Theory gave a single word for this as schemes. As a person’s thinking level became more organized new schemes will develop to fit to the environment. The second is the adaptation, to fit to their environment. Adaptation involves two processes, which are assimilation and accommodation. Assimilation means using of existing knowledge to make a sense for the event. It involves trying to acquire something new by fitting it into the present knowledge. For example the first time many children see a cat, they call it a “baao” in local language). They try to connect the new experience with the existing knowledge to identify animals. Accommodation occurs when a person is going to change his existing knowledge to bring the new situation.

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