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"Discuss how the Cognitive Developmental approach has helped us understand one contempory issue of your choice". In the Cognitive Developmental approach, mental processes (such as thinking) are seen as being of high importance in understanding people. However, in the learning theory and the psychodynamic theory, the importance of behaviour and emotion are emphasised instead. Piaget and Vygotsky are the main theorists in this approach, both having very different reasons why cognitive processes change with age, not to mention a more recent theory, the modular approach. Firstly, Piaget understood that children think in a less sophisticated way to adults purely because they think in a completely different way to begin with, rather than the thought that they have less knowledge. He also emphasised the importance of agency, where the environment plays a big part in helping children explore the world in order to create their own mental representation of reality, which contributes...

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