Compare and Contrast the Views of Jean Piaget and Lev

question 79

Essay

Compare and contrast the views of Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky on the cognitive development of children.

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Definitions:

Generalization

In operant conditioning, the tendency to make the learned response to a stimulus similar to that for which the response was originally reinforced.

Unconditioned Stimulus

An unconditioned stimulus is a stimulus that naturally triggers a response without the need for prior learning.

Conditioned Stimulus

A previously neutral stimulus that, after becoming associated with an unconditioned stimulus, eventually comes to trigger a conditioned response.

Meat Powder

In classical conditioning research, a substance used by Ivan Pavlov that triggered salivation in dogs as an unconditioned stimulus.