Developmental Psychology Application Paper 2

Developmental Psychology Application Paper 2

Developmental Psychology – Application Paper #2 Piaget – A Cognitive Developmental Biography

(Section 1 – Application Paper) Analyze a person’s cognitive development, from birth to full cognitive maturity, from Piaget’s view. This person can be yourself, someone else, or someone imaginary. Address at least 10 concepts associated with Piaget’s theory. Include an example of each concept within your narrative. Please highlight these 10 concepts in Bold. Write this section in the form a biography (example given below.)

Reference Page: This first part of your paper should not require references.

Format: APA7 formatting must be used on the cover page, body of paper and reference page. You do not need to provide an abstract. Please use Times New Roman 12 pt font and 1’’ margins. See Canvas for a sample paper written in APA format.

Copying text directly from the internet, or the book, without appropriate sourcing is plagiarism and will result in a grade of zero and possible expulsion from the course. It is also possible to plagiarize even if you change some words or sentence structure, or even if you include a reference page. It is the student’s responsibility to know what constitutes plagiarism. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask me!

Developmental Psychology Application Paper 2

Length: I think it would be very hard to write a solid paper in less than 3 pages. Most A papers will be significantly more robust than that.

I expect college level writing. If you have concerns about your abilities in this area, I highly suggest making an appointment at the Writing Center, Building 4, Room 120.

Turn in the final version of your paper to the “Paper 2 Final” link in the Papers 1 & 2 folder in Canvas by the due date in the syllabus. Late papers will not be accepted.

Example of the style I’d like for the first section:

Calvin Broadus was born October 20, 1971 to Beverly Tate and Vernell Varnado in Long Beach, California. His parents described him as a happy, outgoing infant who responded with glee when his father would sing Al Green’s “Love and Happiness” to him. Calvin’s first example of a secondary circular reaction occurred at just three months of age, when he accidentally banged a wooden block (G, if you must know) against an empty tea kettle, resulting in a satisfying bass tone. Over the next several days Calvin practiced this again and again, perfecting this new skill, perhaps setting the table for greatness to come…

Note how I bold the actual Piagetian concept, and then give an example of Calvin performing it.

(Section 2 – Critical Thinking and Scientific Understanding)

Developmental Psychology Application Paper 2

You will need to search for and read 3 articles/books, all centered around Piaget’s most famous concept: object permanence.

1 – Jean Piaget’s 1954 book The Construction of Reality in the Child

This is available via google books. It doesn’t provide access to the whole book, but enough for our purposes. You might buy one and consider it a souvenir for the class. I purchased a few copies and put them in the East Campus Library as well. If none of those work for you, I scanned about 20 pages into .pdf documents and put them in the Papers folder for you.

You should read pages 44-47, at least. It might be helpful to start from page 30, instead. Note: Piaget refers many times to the exact ages of his children. 0;9 (4) means that the child was 9 months, 4 days old. 0;6 (19) means 6 months, 19 days old, etc. On page 44 he refers to the 4th stage: What he means here are the substages of the overall Sensorimotor stage – see the chart in Ch 5 in your text for a refresher.

2 – Baillargeon’s 1987 study – Object permanence in 31⁄2- and 41⁄2-month-old infants.

You can find this in the APA PsycArticles database through the Valencia online library. Note: there are 3 experiments described in this study. Reading and understanding just the first one should be sufficient for this paper.

3 – Lourenco’s 1996 study – In defense of Piaget’s theory: A reply to 10 common criticisms

You can find this in the APA PsycArticles database through the Valencia online library. This is a high level study, it is not the easiest to read and digest. Reading and understanding the introduction and Part 1 of the 10 should be sufficient for this paper.

Developmental Psychology Application Paper 2

Also, for some additional context, please see the “A few words about the Scientific Method” .pdf that I put in the Papers 1 and 2 folder.

Reference Page: You will need to include these 3 references (and likely only these 3 references) in appropriate APA format on your reference page.

In Part 2 of your paper, you will need to thoroughly answer #1, and answer 2 of the remaining 3 prompts. Provide a robust, evidence based response with appropriate internal citations if necessary.

1. Who is right? A good answer should make appropriate reference to all three articles.
2. What would be your scientific critique of this research be? (Of reading 1, 2, or 3.)
3. What is the next line of research that should be done to advance our understanding in this area?
4. If Piaget were alive today, and had access to modern technology and modern research methods, how do you think this would have affected his views and methods?

Please copy and paste the 3 prompts into your paper, that way it will be very clear which of your arguments are connected to which prompt.

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