"Lite Brite" and Cognitive Development from Piaget and Vygotsky

From my childhood I recall going over to an older friend's house and playing with a game called "Lite Brite." This was a popular game made by Hasbro which originally was developed in 1968. 20 years later I was five years old and playing the same game with my six year old friend and her two year old younger brother. The game involved arranging small colorful lights in specific sequences to create some kind of picture. The …

…break down cognitive development into stages like Piaget. Vygotsky also does not specify the structure or schemes of the information that we gather. In the context of the learning situation associated with Lite Brite, it is apparent that both theories have many merits. The two theories vary to a great degree, but when used together to examine cognitive development, they successfully outline the mental process a human goes through in becoming a fully functionally adult.