The Teaching Resource Center at the University of California at Berkeley has developed a Teaching Guide for their graduate student instructors. The website has a page on Theories of Learning which includes information on the cognitive development theories of Piaget and Zygotsky. Either click on any of the links below or go to the introduction page at http://gsi.berkeley.edu/teachingguide2009/learning/introduction.html

		THEORIES OF LEARNING Theories Behaviorism Cognitive Constructivism Jean Piaget William G. Perry Social Constructivism Quiz Yourself

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Piaget and YouTube

If you do a search on YouTube for "Piaget", the result will include hundreds of clips. Below are four short clips for each of Piaget's stages of cognitive development.

Piaget - Stage 1 - Sensorimotor, Object Permanence (1:03)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y-JVhjS0&feature=related

Piaget - Stage 2 - Preoperational, Lack of Conservation (2:16)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLj0IZFLKvg&feature=related

Piaget - Stage 3 - Concrete - Reversibility (0:56)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA04ew6Oi9M&feature=related

Piaget - Stage 4 - Formal - Deductive Reasoning (0:58)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjJdcXA1KH8&feature=related

Please leave a comment if you are aware of other, especially better, video clips on Piaget.

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