By presenting two approaches to a well-known Piagetian experiment, the water-level task, I emphasize the importance of two complementary views of knowledge acquisition. The first is Piaget's developmental approach, often referred to as “stage theory,” and the second, I call the “differential” approach. Stage theory captures what is common in people's ways of thinking at different levels of thei...

Developers’ emotional stability in agile software development (ASD) teams is an important factor affecting the success of a project. Traditional Happiness Chart depends on people’s self-report and is unable to produce predictive analysis to facilitate decision-making. In this paper, we proposed a Fuzzy Cognitive Map (FCM) based method for analyzing ASD developers’ emotional stability. We design...

Objective: There are several theories proposed on the career development and researchers have classified these theories in different categories. Career-related cognitive theory is one of the latest categories including two theories: social cognitive theory of career development and cognitive information processing. The current study seeks to compare these two cognitive theories of career develo...

Jean is a model of early cognitive development based loosely on Piaget’s theory of sensori-motor and pre-operational thought (Piaget, 1954). Like an infant, Jean repeatedly executes schemas, gradually extending its schemas to accommodate new experiences. We model this process of accommodation with the Experimental State Splitting algorithm. We present the algorithm and demonstrate, in three tra...

The critical thinking movement, it is suggested, has much to gain from conceptualizing its subject matter in a developmental framework. Most instructional programs designed to teach critical thinking do not draw on contemporary empirical research in cognitive development as a potential resource. The developmental model of critical thinking outlined here derives from contemporary empirical resea...

Jean is a computational account of several aspects of cognitive development, specifically, a kind of Piagetian schema-driven learning. Jean’s schemas amalgamate Piagetian sensorimotor schemas with Image Schemas and with Dynamic Maps. These schemas are implemented in our Image Schema Language. Using our Experimental State Splitting algorithm, Jean learns by composing schemas into gists and by di...

This study explores the metaphoric comprehension of normal Persian-speaking children, as well as theories of cognitive development and cultural and social impacts. The researchers discuss the improvement of the understanding of ontological conceptual metaphors through age growth and cognitive development, and how it helps to expand children’s thoughts and knowledge of the world. In this study, ...

A transactional model of intelligence is contrasted with main-effect and interactional models through the examination of perhaps the most important source of biological and social-cultural determinants to intellectual behavior; the family of origin. This examination allows the science of cognition both an understanding of intelligence and the development of intelligence. A method of investigati...

The main question we try to answer in this paper is whether stage-like progression in cognitive development can be explained by transfer of cognitive skill among tasks. We focus on the following question: To what extent does training on one task improve the performance on another task? The tasks are Piaget’s (1959) Balance Scale Task and Number Conservation Task, and a task that we will call th...

Childhood is a very important age period and often has been overlooked. As unawareness that many behavioral traits affect experiences of the early years of our lives so the environment in action and learning during the operation, play a crucial role. When it comes to in public areas and keeping with their peers, children could learn many life circums‌tances, known as social behaviors. This s‌tu...