...Children tend to learn anything fast, They also imitate what adults behavior particularly during their crucial year of growth. Although children have not been able to speak, they can imitate what others were doing, either from their words or behavior. Children start to imitate their surrounding mainly adults when they are about one year of age. Psychologists found that personal character formed and more affected by the environment surrounding for about 75%, the rest 25% is the basic personal character of inborn, therefore person's personality will match for what he/she obtained from their surroundings especially parents that they had met since the beginning of his/her life. Parents and family nearby dominated the develop children’s character personality. Basically imitating and copying are children’s cognitive abilities which always growing and usually they first learn to imitate or copying from language. That's why the first imitated by children are usually the language or words. At first, children will emulate from the closest people such as parents or somebody who often he/she faces. After their social environment wider and got older, the role model imitated also changing; it could be a friend or teacher. In addition, children will also imitate from the figures he saw on TV. For example, superhero likes Superman or Batman. The way children learn from their environment influences could also called Incidental Learning. Through incidental learning, children will develop the...
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...Question 1Children learn best by observing the behavior of adults and copying it. Do you agree or disagree? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. Young children are naturally curious about cause and effect, and are naturally motivated to learn all about the “how’s” and “whys” of the world. Babies and children are like little scientists. They gather evidence by observing and experiencing the world. While playing with dolls, searching through a toy box, or banging blocks together in a seemingly haphazard manner, they’re actually engaging in a quite rational process of making hypotheses, evaluating statistical data, and dismissing prior beliefs when presented with stronger evidence. They also display remarkable psychological intuition and, by observing the actions of other people, can determine underlying motivations, desires and preferences. Children learn about people from statistical information and they in turn evaluate evidence in light of their developing social knowledge, in an ongoing, reinforcing cycle. By the time children are in preschool, they already understand a lot about other people’s desires, preferences, beliefs and emotions. But how do they learn about these internal motivations? It is generally thought that children pick up this knowledge from emotional cues such as facial expressions. Kids gain knowledge best by watching conducts of adults and replicating it is a contentious one. Many people think that this is the most effective...
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...statement that children learn best by watching and imitating adults’ conducts and behaviour. Even though children develop their own thoughts and personality, those elements are continually shaped and influenced by the environment. Behaviour of adults are the best way children learn because of the proximity of parents and their children, Adult’s behaviour plays a significant role in modelling children’s personality. It is often mentioned that parents are the first teacher of their child. Although parents sometimes do not intend to teach the children certain things, kids have started to imitate and watch what their parents are doing. Since the first day a baby was born, the baby starts learning through imitating and observing each movement of the adults. As children grow, adults around them tend to have important effect on their decision making skill and logical thinking. Adults should set a good example for children as they learn by paying attention to people around them. For example, little girls enjoy playing making up in front of the mirror after seeing their mother making up. Boys, in the other hand, learn to play football and video games after seeing their fathers doing these. However, imitation occur in both good and bad way as children also imitate the bad stuff people around them perform. For instance, children growing up hearing vulgar language, they would think that it is the right thing to do and follow the behaviour. That is why it is important for adults with children...
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...The Way Children Learn The upbringing of a child is a complicated process and as the parent you need to find the right methods of dealing with a child in order to develop a good personality, and not to harm the growing person. However, many people argue the many methods out there of teaching and upbringing. Which method is more effective and should be used in your practice? For most people, they feel that a child learns best by copying the behavior of adults. Children start to learn the day of their birth and their teachers are their parents. Parents show their children how to behave, listen, eat, play, talk, and walk and so on. The parent shapes the child’s behavior, thinking and opinions. As the child, they look to their parents and observe them doing things like helping them cook, clean, etc. This helps them to learn. Actions like this are argued to be the best ways for the child to learn. Nevertheless, a child observing their parents also has some disadvantages. Children are like sponges, soaking up everything. They not only mimic the good behavior, but they also pick up the bad. Looking at it from this perspective makes this method harmful and possibly damaging. The children can copy bad habits such as smoking, drinking alcohol, or become argumentative by watching conflicts between two parents. Seeing these behaviors can cause the child to repeat the process when they become adults. Many parents try to keep their children out of conflicts, but the child is still...
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...agents of socialisation for the children. This is so because the parents spend much of the time with the children, from their tender ages until they are grown up. At home the parents set standards and rules. They insist on certain folkways. Examples include that they must not eat while they are standing. In Zimbabwe parents also teach children moral codes such as clapping and thanking other people. They are taught good ways of treating others. Generally parents set the best guidance to children. This is due to the attachment which parents have with their children as well as the love they have for them. One bad thing in the socialisation that comes from the parents is insisting on certain standards which may not be good for the children. Some religious parents teach their children to disown other people’s religious beliefs. Parents may tend to create stereotypes in their children. They tend to want children to behave in exactly the same ways as they do. Teachers Apart from parents teachers give a lot of socialisation to children. Children believe that teachers are always right; hence they listen very much to them. Teachers tend to teach things that of national significance. The values taught by teachers reflect national thinking. This is so because that depends on the syllabuses that are set at national level. They also teacher norms and mores that have national significance and that are intended to create good citizens and responsible adults. Again that form of socialisation...
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...St. Scholastica’s College LAY APOSTOLATE 1ST SEM, SY 2014 – 2015 Service Date Section: BSAct2A Group Group Members: * Atendido, Andrea * Cruz, Shaneen * Deximo, Layrose * Senas, Rubi I. Evaluation for the topic a. Strength The topics were suitable for their age and level which makes it easier for them to understand and comprehend. You can see their interest and eagerness to learn and answer our questions and quizzes. b. Problems Encountered All I can see is when the students start comparing their answers while on activity, these cases are unavoidable but we find ways to stop them from doing that like asking them if they are sure on their answers. c. Recommendations Be strictly involved with the students especially while taking their activity because comparison can lead to copying the answer of each other. II. Evaluation for the LA Students a. Strength They prepared a topic that fits to their age and made very comprehendible visuals. They taught the students their topics with clarity and certainty. b. Problems Encountered The students comprehend well but due to doubt they always compare their answers with each other or ask us for it when they can do it on their own. They are afraid to make mistakes and have the lowest score. c. Recommendations They should still asses the students while taking up the quizzes to avoid them comparing their answers. They should make sure that they evaluate the results of the...
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...from everyday objects that adults take for granted because adults have seen and touched these objects. This paper will attempt to describe how certain surroundings and traditions can affect ones personality from aspects in their childhood. Over a lifespan the human body develops, and at different ages the body changes. What factors affect physical development? Physical development starts when we are born, the genetic make-up from our parents may decide on how fast or slow our motor skills are developed. Another factor that plays in our early development is the environment we are born into, or in some bigger families the place we are born into can be a factor in our development. According to child psychologist, Dr. Richard Woolfson a first born child may learn at a faster rate than a second or third born. First born children are surrounded by adults, so speech may come quicker where as a child born with siblings may develop motor skills at an accelerated rate often copying, or mimicking siblings. The environment that the child is exposed to is probably the most important factor in the child’s development, what children are exposed to, or not exposed to, may decide how their speech or personality are developed. A child exposed to violence, abuse and foul language may grow up thinking it is proper to act and speak in the same mannerism. A child exposed to an environment filled with cheerful, well spoken, educated adults may develop skills that will...
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...Developmental Theories Tammy Weston Child and Adolescent Development PSY 104 December, 20, 2014 Developmental Theories 2 There is nothing more amazing than the growth and development of a child. Several researchers have dedicated years to the study of child development to help us better understand this amazing time in their lives. Though there are many theorists and different branches of their theories, they are narrowed into three categories, maturationist, environmentalist, and constructivist. These three theories allow us to analyze childhood development and better understand how children grow and learn. Although there are many differences in these theories, there are also some similarities. In this paper I will discuss how these theories relate and differ with regards to a child’s development. How do these theories help us understand our children and how they grow and learn? I will also discuss the importance of physical, emotional and cognitive development, to the overall development of a child and why it is imperative for us to not only understand how they develop but how we can help foster that growth. A child begins to develop while in the mother’s womb. The genetics (the makeup) of the child are already in place. (Papalia, Olds, Feldman, 2008) The child inherits genes from both mother and father. Piaget was probably one of most influential cognitive theorists. Piaget was a constructivist which means basically that learning occurs from actions rather than...
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...used to describe the activities of children from babyhood until the early teenage years. There is no neat definition that will cover all the meanings given by parents, early years and playwork practitioners and other adult commentators - let alone how children talk about play when their opinions are invited. Yet there are some common themes: • Play includes a range of self-chosen activities, undertaken for their own interest, enjoyment and the satisfaction that results for children; • Very young children, even babies, show playful behaviour when they explore sound and simple actions and experiment with objects of interest; • Play activities are not essential to meet basic physical survival needs. But play does seem to support children's emotional well being as well as a wide range of learning within their whole development; • Children can play alone, but often they play with other children and with familiar adults. Even very young children engage in simple give-and-take or copying games with their peers, older siblings or with adults; • A playful quality in activities is shown by the exercise of choice, enjoyable repetition and invitation by children to others to join the play; • Yet children's play can look serious. Players may show great absorption in the activity and disagreements can result from a difference of opinion about how the play should progress. Do all children play? Historical and cross-cultural evidence shows that all children play, unless their living circumstances...
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...Further Reading A list of related materials, with annotations to guide further exploration of the article’s ideas and applications This document is authorized for use only by Suzi Tack (ST@STRATHSPEYCROWN.COM). Copying or posting is an infringement of copyright. Please contact customerservice@harvardbusiness.org or 800-988-0886 for additional copies. Reprint R0807E The Competitive Imperative of Learning The Idea in Brief Most managers believe that relentless execution—the efficient, timely production and delivery of offerings—is vital to corporate performance. Execution-as-efficiency is important. But focusing too narrowly on it can prevent your company from adapting effectively to change. Consider General Motors: Managers’ confidence in GM’s famously efficient control systems blinded them to big shifts in the market, including customers’ preferences for fuel-efficient cars. GM posted a $38.7 billion loss in 2007. Edmondson recommends widening your lens to include execution-as-learning. Companies that use this approach focus not just on carrying out key processes more efficiently than rivals—but also on learning faster. To foster execution-as-learning, make it safe for employees to ask questions and fail. Then: • Provide process guidelines, using the best available knowledge. COPYRIGHT © 2008 HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING CORPORATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The Idea in Practice Edmondson provides these ideas for cultivating...
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...spectrum disorder is a really interesting disorder to learn. In 2012, approximately 1 in 88 child in the United States was diagnosed with Autism by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network. This is a tremendous increase compared to the reporting’s in the 1980’s; it was reported as 1 in 10,0000. ASD’s are a “spectrum disorders”, which means it affects each person in distinctive ways, and can also range from mild to severe circumstances. This disorder is a group of developmental disabilities that cause a great social, interaction and ways someone responses to challenges. Therefore these people with similar characteristics handle cognitive information in a different way than other people. Since the symptoms of autism spectrum disorder differ on each individual. Children with ASD fall into three categories such as; social defacement, hard time with communicating, and rhythmic behaviors. Social difficulties are common with all ASD disorder. Social impairment has an effect on a child’s everyday life. For example, a child will not be able to respond to parent or others by 1 year of age. The child might like solitary better and not play with others, has facial expressions that are improper, does not know the difference of personal boundaries and also may have trouble understanding about their own feelings etc. Let’s say that a typical child starts to understand and learn things as they interact with people around them, whether...
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...practitioner needs to be kind and loving towards the child, to show them that they are wanted, cared for and loved. It is important that the practitioner should be supporting the child’s health, as the parents have put their trust in the practitioner to look after their children and help them to stay safe and healthy. It is also important to show the children the correct way of behaving and doing actions, as they will be learning and copying form the practitioner and will most likely keep that type of behaviour as they grow older. [C.Meggitt,...
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...food. This meaning food automatically lead to response of salivation, this is called an unconditioned response. The food was the unconditioned stimulus. As the production of saliva was automatic and not learnt. With this, an unconditioned stimulus leads to an unconditioned response. Pavlov then introduced a bell at feeding time, the bell was a conditioned response as the dog then produced saliva on the bell ringing as the dog associated the bell with feeding time. This happened over several trails and then the dog learned this. Eventually it began to salivate when only the bell was rung and no food was presented. Bell ringing is a conditioned stimulus. Three key points about classical conditioning are that this is the idea that humans learn behaviours through association with environmental stimuli. Behaviours can be conditioned through a stimulus response actions. Finally thought processes of participants are not considered when examining behaviours. Operant conditioning: Burrhus...
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...It would be gross injustice to categorize all children and youths as lacking in manners and morals, but the general trend would certainly suggest there has been a major decline among many of them. Family values have changed dramatically in the past few decades, producing a crop of undisciplined teenagers and children who lack morals and manners as a result of poor training. Good manners were once the norm with young people very much aware the older generation. Saying "please" and "thank you", giving up a seat on the bus and holding open doors were all considered normal mannerly behavior. Times have changed and we now live in a predominantly me-first society which is reflected in many young people. If good manners are taught at an early age, they will generally continue to be part of the personality of the young child all the way into adulthood. The lack of good manners observed in society in general is no doubt a reflection of the situation found within the home. Without parental example and training the area of manners, it is likely the children will sadly lack in displaying them. The same can be said of the lack of morals we find in many of today's youth. A large proportion of children have grown up with little or no respect for authority, for property, for family or even themselves. Living a life of immorality is considered normal behavior today and has produced a bumper crop of young people with venereal disease, unwanted pregnancies and a feeling of emptiness in their...
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...Arcene, a ten year old Cherokee, who was hanged in Arkansas in 1885 for participating in a robbery and murder (James Austin, 2000). Juvenile capital punishment has always been a highly controversial and publicized matter. As a society we recognize that children, those under eighteen years old, cannot and do not function as adults. Because children do not function as adults, the law takes special steps to protect children from the consequences of their actions and often gives them a second chance. The law prohibits people under eighteen years old from voting, serving in the military, and serving on juries. Majority of the criminals are male offenders over twenty years old, but this is changing rapidly. Not only are adults committing capital offenses, but children who are under eighteen years old are committing such heinous offenses. A child that commits a heinous crime is not mentally capable of comprehending the crime he or she commits. The system of values in the age under eighteen is not built yet, other people can easily influence children, and the psychiatric processes are not yet stable. Under these conditions a child should never be sentenced to death or a life in prison because their mind is not fully developed. Children still have a chance to change and be rehabilitated. Many people argue the point that these adolescents should be put to death for their horrific crimes. Psychiatrists, psychologists, and brain specialists argue that some sixteen and seventeen...
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