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Cognitive Development
My article is on Cognitive Development. It is a start class rated article and and it is rated as high importance. It is part of the Wiki Project psychology and Wiki Project cognitive science. I think everything in the article is relevant to the topic. However, I think the article contains too much about Piaget's theory of cognitive development and not enough about other theorists research on cognitive development such as Kohlberg and Vygotsky. A majority of the article is about Piaget, which is unnecessary because "Piaget's theory of cognitive development" is already its own Wikipedia article. I think the article needs much more information of the other theorists involved in cognitive development. I think the article could use a lot more sources. There are some parts of the article that have 6 or 7 paragraphs in a row with no sources. The article also has quite a few sources that are extremely out of date. I think they could be replaced with new and better sources. The article could use a lot more information on certain topics such as zone of proximal development. I also think the article could be organized better. The main topics and subtopics are very confusing to follow and it is not very clear how each subtopic ties into the overall point of cognitive development.

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Lev Vygtosky's theory is based on social learning as the most important aspect of cognitive development. Unlike Piaget, he believed that learning comes before development and that one must learn first to be able to develop into an adult. Vygtosky's theory is different from Piaget's in four ways. 1. Vygotsky believes culture affects cognitive development more. Vygotsky has no stages like Piaget does. Piaget thinks that cognitive development is the same across the world, while Vygotsky has the idea that culture makes cognitive development different. 2. Social factors heavily influence cognitive development under Vygotsky's beliefs. Environment and parents the child has will play a big role in a child's cognitive development. The child learns through the Zone of Proximal Development with help from their parent. 3. Vygotsky believes that language is important in cognitive development. While Piaget saw thought as an important role, Vygotsky sees thought and language as different, but eventually coming together. He emphasizes the role of inner speech being the first thing to cause cognitive development to form. 4. Cognitive development is very influenced by adults. Children observe adults in their life and gain knowledge about the culture based on things the adults do.