Can you take a look to those answers and give your opinion. The first one is almost done, and the second one is still missing some information about the brain development from adolescence to adulthood. 

 

1) Compare and contrast the views of Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky on the cognitive development of children.

 

      Jean Piaget investigated and analyzed his three children through their progression into

 adolescence to finally evidence how they interacted with the environment and understood

              their cognitive world, and thus concluded his study to conceive and formulate four phases of

              the cognitive development that make up with children’s path to adulthood. According as the

              transition from one stage to the next occurs, it is evident that the child’s thinking makes more

              progress and the way he or she learns and achieves new skills differs in quality; however, the

              most important for Piaget are each of the different ways in which he or she perceives or  

              interprets his or her cognitive world, in other words, a distinct way of  comprehending a 

              situation or event that happens in his or her environment.

 

     To illustrate, let us explain briefly the first two periods or stages of this theory of the

  cognitive development in childhood. The first stage, the sensorimotor stage, comprises the first

  two years of the child. Here, the child learns about the world surrounding him or her by means

  of sensory experience, that’s to say, by having physical contact directly with objects, and

  consequently, he or she increases practical motor skills and is ready to move forward the second

  stage: the pre-operational stage. This stage occurs between the age of two and seven, where the

  child is able to symbolize or represent anything that happens outside him or her with words,

  images, and drawings; nevertheless, this symbolic understanding is still limited. Once the child has progressed by this period, is advancing to the next stage.

 

      Similarly, Lev Vygotsky was of the opinion that children achieve and progress levels of understanding and knowledge on their own; but at the same time, he gave firm credence to the statement that they can cognitively improve or succeed with the assistant of others more skilled.

 

                

 

2) Explain how the brain develops from childhood through adolescence to full maturity in adulthood.

 

    The development of the brain is characterized by two periods of growth. First, the fetal brain has such an extensive amount of neurons that between the seventh and the ninth months many of them are not able to link each other and consequently are removed. This fact or action is known as pruning. Then, as the gray matter keeps growing, axons increase greatly and the formed myelin surrounds those to quicken the nerve electrical signals. While pruning goes on occurring throughout the infant’s brain and early childhood brain evolution, neurons deal with the information more productively and approximately at age 6 years old the magnitude of the brain is in the 95 percent range in comparison with its magnitude as an adult brain.

    The second growth period happens during late childhood just before puberty, when there is another excessive formation of the gray matter, which reaches its maximum capacity and magnitude when boys are 12 years old and girls are 11 years old.