Cognitive Development

Due to the child egocentrism and animistic thinking at this stage having this conversation will be difficult
for the child to understand. They struggle to understand the difference between living and non-living
things. Explaining to a child at this age that someone or something close to them has died wouldn’t be
best. Instead explaining they went away to be in another place but talking about all the things they love
about them, making the focus more on the positive of the person or animal and not focused on the
action of death. As they get older and can better understand the conversation can become more in
depth. The other two stages and age range I would allow the child or adolescent lead the conversation,
inviting them to ask questions about the situation that they may have. Thus, allowing them to process
the information in their mind as well as out loud with me. Children at these stages can grasp the
difference in understand that what happened doesn’t correlate with them or their behavior. They can
question things and think critically, a student in preoperational stage is not. The child’s perceptions of
the world will change depending on their experiences. Watching death will impact a child and the belief
and trust system he has in people.

Cognitive theories focus on the fact that the human brain can think, understand and reason about
complex ideas. It shaped these theorist's worldview because it aligned to their research that as we
grow our cognitive abilities grow.

Piaget theory focuses on development in stages according to lifespan. Vgotsky’s theory also
states that development happens according to lifespan. The difference is Vgotsky focuses more
on environment and interactions and experiences the child has where Piaget does not.
Adolescent egocentrism is the inability for them to separate their concerns from others. The
three forms are imaginary audience where the child is concerned that everyone is looking and
watching them. The second is personal fable where the child feels like others don’t understand
what it is like to be them and the third is invincible where the child feels like things won’t
happen to them.
Six level of Blooms
Remembering- memory games during lesson of new material
Understanding- sorting words from the at word family after lesson
Applying- Use at word family to write a journal prompt
Analyzing- using at word family but switching the vowel or ending letter
Evaluating- compare and contrast how Rosa parks fought for African American rights to the way
Elenore Roosevelt fought for African American rights.
Creating- black history project on how people changed America