Child development is a process every child goes through. This process involves learning and mastering skills like sitting, walking, talking, skipping, and tying shoes. Children learn these skills called developmental milestones, during predictable time periods. There are five main areas of development: Cognitive, Socio-emotional, Language, Fine motor skill, and Gross motor skill development. All of these areas correlates to each other. However, the differences of cognitive and language development
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Several theories have been developed from the five major perspectives used to research child development. These perspectives include psychoanalytic, learning, cognitive, contextual, and evolutionary/sociobiological perspectives (Papalia, Olds, & Feldman, 2008). Researchers use theories to explain child development. The theories are important because they propose ideas or explanations to describe development and to predict kinds of behaviors. In this paper, I will discuss and describe three theories
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care, and the psychology of the caregivers. Other features the interviewers may look at could include; the social, and cognitive rules of the particular culture, the individuals characteristics, or even how independent the child may or may not be. Jean Piaget was one of the most influential researchers of the 20th century, while working in an IQ test lab in Paris, he became very interested in the way children think and how they choose their reasoning in answers. Cognitive Theory has two major aspects;
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THEORY OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT By Jean Piaget Kyzeah Coleen Tababa GJ Coleen Panaguiton Claudette Trespuentes Dr. Cynthia Dy STAGE 1: SENSORIMOTOR THOUGHT (BIRTH-2 YEARS) Babies are stuck in the HERE AND NOW world. They “know the world only in terms of their own sensory input (what they see, smell, taste, touch, and hear) and their physical or motor actions on it (e.g. sucking, reaching, grasping). (Littlefield Cook & Cook, 2005/2009, p. 157) Babies lack REPRESENTATIONAL THOUGHT
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Cross sectional study – a study of development in which individuals of different ages are compared at the same time Longitudinal study – a study of development in which observations of the same individuals are compared at different times of their lives Prenatal Period – approx. nine months between conception and birth, development depends on genetic contribution from gametes - x chromosome inactivation is one example of this factor at work, one of two x chromosomes is silenced by women, most
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takes a back seat as the social is driven mainly by the physical and no one really looks at the cognitive except maybe as an introspective part of soul searching. One theory of life span development is the cognitive theory of Jean Piaget. One of his breakthrough theories was the stage independent theory. This theory dealt with four
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tendency to persevere in, or stick to, one thought or action for a long period of time) Berger The Developing Person Through the Lifespan Eighth Edition, Chapter 8, Biosocial Development pg 216 at that age where they would do such a horrible thing? Jean Piaget calls cognitive development between about 2 and 6 years of age. Chapter 9, Berger Developing Person Through the Lifespan Eighth Edition Early Childhood: Cognitive
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person’s lifespan is from the moment of conception through death. Lifespan development is the different stages a person passes through as he or she develops. Perspective of lifespan development understands the changes that occur in development. Freud and Piaget have very different theories of lifespan development. Freud’s theory is a basis of id, ego, and superego, whereas Piaget’s is a cognitive development that occurs over a person’s lifetime. Nature and Nurture are more than perspectives in lifespan development
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Sensitive Periods in Child Development In order to understand how children move between stages, it’s important to understand how children take in stimuli from the environment and use it to grow. Most theorists agree that there are periods in children’s lives in which they become biologically mature enough to gain certain skills that they could not have easily picked up prior to that maturation. For example, research has shown that babies and toddlers’ brains are more flexible with regard to learning
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