Essays on Jean Piaget

Human Growth and Development

1. Both Erikson and Piaget study developmental psychology through stages and support the idea of the development of personality throughout life. Also, both of them share the idea that the failure of the personal development on one of the stages will result in the failure on the following stage. At the same time, Erikson and Piaget have a different number of stages and see the developmental process differently. Erikson follows the psychoanalytic school, has an experiential approach, and considers the development of ego and the influence of social setting, and Piaget uses observations, ignores ego, and considers the development ...

Introduction

Proper presentation of data collected during a study is imperative to the credibility of a research. In fact, lack thereof compromises the interpretation embraced by the people relying on such information due to the possibilities of miscommunication in the presentation process. As such, researchers ought to follow a compelling approach whilst communicating the results of their study regardless of the research design followed. With this in mind, it is worth acknowledging the fact that there are multiple research approaches followed in the delivery of psychological research information. According to the Emergency Medicine Journal, the popular research designs include observational ...

Introduction

Development is a word that describes the process of growth, adaptation, and changes that people undergo during their lifetime characterized by personality, physical, cognitive, socioemotional, and language developments. The work of developmental psychologists helps the society to understand different developmental theories and how they influence life in various stages of life through various development theories. Development theories describe various factors that influence the development pattern of an individual that include hereditary and environmental factors. On the other hand, other psychological experts argue that development is controlled by nature and nurture that combine to influence biological factors. However, psychological developments ...

Psychology: Nature vs. Nurture Essay

Language constitutes an essential characteristic of human beings and is regarded as a primary form of communication between individuals. The role of nature and nurture in language acquisition among young children has been a continuous debate in developmental sciences, education, and social sciences like sociology and psychology. This issue is not only conflicting but also complementary. It has laid a foundation for better understanding of how biological and environmental factors interact to influence language development in children (Yusa et al. 2011). Available research shows that there is no clear pattern of the causes and effects associated with human cognition ...

They have been a myriad of theorists that have developed theories on cognitive learning stages and human development. Among those theorists have been Erik Erikson, Abraham Maslow, and Jean Piaget. Each of these theorists have had an imperative impact on the way we view cognitive development and physical growth. Some of them focused more on how we interact with others and develop through relationships with individuals as we progress through life. While others, focused on cognitive development that is innately inherited through birth giving us a foundation of which to build upon. Erik Erikson, for example, based his theories ...

Erik Erikson’s theory of identity crisis emphasizes on cultural and social roles in the identity of the ego (Engler, 23). According to him, it is possible for people to continue developing in their adulthood. The stages that develop in adulthood are Intimacy and Isolation, Generativity and Stagnation, and Ego Integrity and Despair. In the Intimacy and Isolation stage, young adults are likely to try and build their self-esteem. However, both Erikson and Piaget admit that in adulthood behavior is determined by the person nurture and nature. Therefore, in adulthood, people build on to what they already have from ...

A man's identity is an outcome of the interaction between sociological, psychological, historical, and biological impacts. It springs from the person's endeavors to keep up a feeling of congruity as well as personal uniqueness in the midst of shifting developmental tasks and unexpected events in life and acquire a sense of oneness with the group. Another approach to hypothesize identity is by depicting the characteristics of people who have obtained a strong sense of individual identity. The interest of developmental psychology in the development of identity arises from the seminal work of Erikson titled Identity: Youth and Crisis. In ...

Egocentrism is simply a heightened degree of self-consciousness and self-awareness. David Elkind’s work was mostly focused on adolescent psychology. Therefore, his version of egocentrism was mainly in adolescents. According to Elkind, adolescents have the inability to perceive the difference between what they think of themselves and what people think of them. His theory traces its roots from Piaget’s theory of cognitive development, which presents an argument that due to the changes adolescents undergo, they can conceptualize their thoughts and conceive those of other people. This is a buildup of what Elkind provides in that he brings in ...

Introduction

Mary’s case reflects a serious case of criminal behavior, not counting the numerous crimes committed against her by her family members. Mary is a serious psychological case, as she has faced numerous negative influences in her life and suffered serious emotional trauma. Raised by a father who was abusive against the family and a mother who was emotionally distant, Mary’s childhood and most formative years were spent facing damaging abuse that would affect her for the rest of her life. Her step-father, who arrived on the scene when Mary was nearly ten, sexually abused her and her ...

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1.) Piaget: Cognitive development 1.) Reggio Emilia 2.) Gardner: Theory of multiple intelligence 2.) High Scope 3.) Vygotsky: Social cultural theory of development 3.) Montessori 4.) Skinner: Operant conditioning 4.) Waldorf 5.) Bandura: Social learning theory 5.) Bank street 6.) Freud: Psychosexual theory of development 6.) Cooperative 7.) Erikson: Theory of psychosocial development 7.) Creative curriculum 8.) Kohlberg: Theory of moral development 8.) Play based learning

Step 2

Learning is said to be a relatively permanent process that results in a behavioral change. Though various theorists and learning approaches have been proposed, there is one thing all psychologists and people in ...

Summary of Skinner and Piaget Articles

Summary of Skinner and Piaget Articles B.F. Skinner The article on Skinner discusses (2008) his theories about verbal behavior. He refutes other theories of language acquisition and verbal communications, making the case that all verbal communication is a behavioral response to environmental stimuli. Over time, a human being develops patterns from repeated responses to a similar stimulus and the result is a collection verbal behaviors that appear to characterize that individual’s personality (as cited in Diessner, 2008). But, says Skinner (2008), the verbal behavior is not driven by any internal personality or character of that person, only by ...

Introduction

Cognitive development in my view may be described simply as the process how an individual changes how they think. This change in how the person thinks may come in different perspectives, from how the person processes information, to how the person perceives other things in life and this change will always tend to increase as the person increases in age and experiences various things over time . This change or rather advancement, how I am able to understand, may be really dependent on my experiences, the knowledge that I have been able to learn in class and life in general. ...

Jean Piaget's cognitive theory is an extrapolation of developmental psychology in children that explains the stages through which children develop. The theory is defined by a tripartite composition of; schemas, adaptation processes, and stages of development. Schemas, the building blocks of knowledge, are the settings of the brain for absorption of knowledge, a kind of a page where a child writes new information. Adaptation processes include assimilation and accommodation of information, whereby, assimilation happens when new information can be easily absorbed by an existing schema. In the case where new information cannot be absorbed in an existing schema, the ...

The institutional affiliation

Humans make life-changing decisions every day and it is of high importance that those decisions are made deliberately and carefully. Moreover, an answer or a solution to the arisen issue may be constructed in different stages of thinking. Sometimes it is hard to determine the stage of thinking and cognitive development. In order to complete this task, I have interviewed my family member and my friend about the most significant and powerful decisions in their lives, about people who have helped them make those decisions and about their current opinions of those exact situations and if they would set ...

Theoretical literature strongly points to a role of social and other environmental factors in predicting academic outcomes (Shaffer & Kipp, 2010; Condron, 2009; Panofsky, 2003). According to Shaffer & Kipp (2010), while behaviourist learning theories consider the environment and child-specific circumstances are inconsequential learning, Piaget’s theory of cognitive development and Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory consider linguistic, emotional, cognitive, and social development to be complementary processes that shape children’s growth and literacy. Vygotsky and Piaget’s theories emphasize the interaction between nurture and nature in learning and development. Piaget believed that children were moulded by their interaction with the environment, ...

Ever wondered how growth occurs in human beings or how people get to learn and develop? The human body works in a mysterious way that at times you wonder how it gets to function and adapt to various changes with passage of time. Theories of human development have been established by researchers to offer a structure that allows individuals to figure out how human growth, learning and development occurs (Salkind, 2004). With better understanding of how our bodies grow and develop, we are able to understand ourselves better as well as fellow human beings. This paper will therefore, address ...

Child development takes place in discrete phases and ranges from birth to adulthood. These stages of development comprise various interrelated aspects such as socialization, motor skills, language, cognitive ability, emotional aspects, and social interaction. Various theories emphasize on the issues of development such as Vygotsky and Jeane Piaget theories. Piaget's model discusses concerns about the acquisition of knowledge and mechanisms of intellectual development. On the other hand, Vygotsky tended to focus mostly on the influence of culture on social and material structure and language of society (Steinberg & Vandergrift, 2010). Infant development and growth requires a combination of theories to ...

Emotional and social development of children at the age of 8-10 is geared towards adolescence (Murray, 2015). At this stage, peer friendship becomes more vital in their social and emotional development. These children begin to have a sense of independence and a certain level of confidence to solve problems and take risks. The children at this stage also develop self-evaluation capacity and at times laugh at themselves for unknown reasons. The child I observed playing had a number of these characteristics as he belongs to the same age group of transition from a child to adolescence. The child was ...

Abstract

My motor skills developed on time, although my motor coordination is still not very good. My physical development is in line with normal course of development of a person. I have sustained healthy weight throughout my childhood and adolescence, and my height and weight started growing rapidly during puberty that started at the age of 11. My height and weight during puberty were different from my peers, which made me feel self-conscious and lowered my self-esteem. Puberty was also marked with emotional and behavioral changes that affect many adolescents. I have completed Piaget’s stages of development on time ...

Christopher is seven years old and attends a district 75,6:1:1 classroom. He is an only child

and he was born in the United States. His parents migrated from Ecuador and they speak

Spanish at home. While his father is able to communicate with a limited vocabulary his

mother has less command of the English language. Christopher is on the Autistic Spectrum and he has been having Speech Therapy to help him develop his language.

Personal Identity

Personal Identity can be defined as the perception of self that grows over time. It is defined Christopher’s personality has been formed by the influence at home, in his formative years. Many migrant families in the US bring up their offspring with the concept that ‘children should be seen and not heard’. This is in ...

Introduction

Jean Piaget is one of the greatest psychologists to have ever lived. His thinking has influenced many areas of the study of the human mind, from development, to education and even psychopathology. Through a study of his general theory, many parameters of his thinking will be examined. Then, there will be a brief discussion of his cognitive development stages, which is the contribution he is most known for. Finally, some criticisms to his theory will be addressed, and some possible answers from within Piaget’s theory.

General Theory

According to Carey, Zaitchik and Bascandziev (2015), there are two main components of ...

<Institution> The development of human intelligence is a complex process, and many factors are involved in it. The following are some of the important concepts and theories that are helpful in understanding more about human intelligence.

Concrete-Operational Period and Formal-Operational Period

Concrete operations stage is the third stage of cognitive development that was formulated by Jean Piaget. Children ages 7 to 11 years go through this stage, which is further divided into two sub-stages: the concrete-operational period and the formal-operational period. During concrete-operational period, a child develops the ability to apply logical thinking about an object as long as it can be manipulated (“ ...

Analysis of Waldorf

Waldorf Education is a private, developmental curriculum focused on teaching to the holistic needs of children.  Rudolf Steiner developed Waldorf education in the early 20th Century to create a learning environment focused on artistic learning and creative thinking.  Waldorf schools, also referred to as Steiner schools, exist in 91 countries and there are about 1,000 schools in total (Costello-Dougherty, 2009).  Waldorf schools vary in sizes but some have programs from preschool through high school (DeLuca & Hughes, 2014).  As children pass through a series of stages of development, Waldorf curriculum focuses on teaching the right thing at the right ...

A mental thinking process directs daily human activities. The mental development of a person involves the mind encompassing perceptions, images, and languages and plans to inform the knowledge and comprehension process (Burton, 2015). The knowledge process involves gaining understanding knowing, thinking, remembering, judging and problem-solving. This development of the mind is referred to as cognition (Burton, 2015). The cognitive development process has been explained by different theories; among these theories are Jean Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development and Lev Vygotsky Sociocultural Theory of Cognitive Development (Burton, 2015). Piaget’s and Vygotsky’s theories provide insight on how children ...

Introduction

Proper environmental exposure is essential to the development of a child. In fact, lack thereof compromises their intellectual growth, which may have adverse impacts to their adulthood. As such, controversies have arisen on the influence of the society on the cognitive development of a child. Some maintain that the environment and society an individual is exposed to during their infancy contributes to their overall cognitive development while others dispute this claim. For starters, Vygotsky’s theory stresses that social interaction has an indispensable role in the elaboration of an infant’s cognitive abilities (Rochester, 2015). Contrastingly, Piaget’s theory ...

Psychological development theories divide the development of a child to an adult into stages which carry distinctive characteristics. These theories study all areas of growth in a child till adulthood from the social and biological part to the emotion and cognitive processes (Ezhovkina & Ryabova, 2015). Arguably, it is evident that the story of The Lord of the Flies has many psychological, developmental theories that are applicable in real world context. Notably, the theme of bullying and its causes also comes to play. This paper seeks to discuss Ralph character traits about these psychological development theories. For a fact, the ...

Introduction

In the recent times, people have been exposed to the media than ever before. Most of our homes comprise of TV sets, internet connections, and newspapers amongst others. The internet, for instance, is perceived as a tool that makes life easier by providing essential information. Obviously, excessive exposure to violent media has detrimental effects on the behaviors of the child (Escobar-Chaves, Liliana, and Craig A, 2008). All-encompassing research has revealed that media violence develops aggressive behavior to children. Therefore, stakeholders must ensure they promote a safer media environment for the children during developing through media literacy. Throughout this paper ...

Book Report

Thomas R.M believes that studying and understanding the growth and development of a child is helpful to train the young on how to live well. Children differ in emotional growth, physical, social and cognitive patterns. Children differ even if they are identical twins. Think of a child; you will find out that their response to the play, affection, people, and objects be it living or non-living in their environment is very different. In this book, Thomas R.M helps us to understand children better by discussing the principles of child development, the brain growth, and development of a child. He ...

Cognitive theories are trying to explain why the brain is the main incredible network within the body in information interpretation and processing learning (Fletcher & Fincham, 2013). Cognitive theories are divided into two major categories: the cognitive behavioral theory and the social cognitive theory (Fletcher & Fincham, 2013). The social cognitive theory considers three variables which include environmental factors (extrinsic), behavioral factors and personal factors (intrinsic). On the other hand, the cognitive behavioral theory is describing the role of the knowing in an attempt to predict and determine the behavioral pattern of a person. Jean Piaget looked at his work as ...

Early Adulthood Observation paper – Age 19-40

Details of observation and stages of subject  Place: Age: 24 years Gender: Male Developmental stage- Early Adulthood Raphael is a typical young adult who is full of health, vigor and vibrancy and is ready for intimacy, having the ability to relate as he seeks to establish himself independently while relating with others.

Developmental stage description

Raphael falls under Erikson’s love stage, which is a stage that pits intimacy against isolation and is a stage that goes all the way up to the age of 39years. According to Erikson, love is the predominant factor at this stage of the young adult as ...

Abstract:

This paper focuses on the teaching project that the writer conducted on some 5-7 year old kindergartens who are in their preoperational stage. It will go over the characteristics of preoperational stage, and some theories related to it. Lastly, it will compare and contrast the preoperational stage with the middle childhood or those in the fourth grade who are from 9 to 10 years of age, who were the center of the previous activity. In the end, it will be evident that the preoperational stage is a very significant stage when it comes to growth and development, as this ...

Human Growth and Development - Adolescence age 12-18

Details of observation and stages of subject  Place: Age: 13 years Gender: Female Developmental stage- Adolescent Karen is moody, she strives to please her peers more than she desires to be with her mother and she is awakened to her sexuality.

Developmental stage description

The observed person (Karen) falls under the Fidelity stage based on Erikson’s Theory of Social Development. According to Erikson’s Theory, this is the identity versus role confusion stage that applies to adolescents aged 13 to 19 years (Grusec & Lytton, 2012). The existential question for this stage (adolescent stage) is mainly “Who Am I and What Can ...

Introduction

Growth in a child refers to changes in his or her body together with the increase in size, height, weight, circumference of the head, and the body mass index. On the other hand, development refers to increase in the child’s complexity. Development involves a progression along a continuous line on which a child gets a more refined knowledge, skills, and behaviors. This paper will focus on describing a child’s growth and development. The children’s behaviors in a classroom were observed for a period of about 15 minutes. The paper will describe one of the child’s ...

One of the most dangerous assumptions that a teacher can make is that all students will respond equally to their favored instructional methods. In reality, there are a variety of teaching methods which can be implemented in the classroom in order to meet the needs of culturally diverse learners. Three of the challenges that face those working to ensure that the teaching strategies they are implementing effectively address the learning needs of a variety of learners are: identifying and overcoming one’s own cultural biases, understanding the cultural background and resulting needs of students in the classroom, and understanding ...

Abstract

The belief that ‘Perception is everything,’ forms the basis of social cognitive theory.  The cognitive theory focuses on a person’s thoughts as the determinant factor of his or her personality (Bandura, 1986).  Many cognitive theorists believe that without these thought processes, we could have no emotions and no behavior and would therefore not function.  In other words, thoughts always come before any feeling and before any action. The process of social cognition enables one to understand the pain of another person. The concept of mind-perception influences our responses to others. We treat others according to the perceived qualities ...

Discussion Questions

High-level co-regulation in collaborative learning: How does it emerge and how is it sustained? By Simone Volet, Mark Summers, Joanne Thurman

Page 140 discusses one of the factors that affect long high-level coregulated knowledge construction.

“Pekrun, Goetz, Titz, and Perry (2002) note that positive emotions can have a reinforcing effect on learning behaviours which they accompany. Pekrun, et al. (2002) found associations between positive emotions and study interest, effort, elaboration, and on-task cognitions.” (p.140) Discussion Question 1: What can you say about the influence of emotions on students’ performance both individual and in-group? Can you give your examples of positive and negative influence of emotions on learning process? Do you agree with research ...

Jean Piaget developed the cognitive development theory. Jean Piaget was born in 1896 and died in 1980. Jean Piaget was curious about the reasons that children gave for giving wrong answers to questions that require logical thinking (Rimondini, 2001). He argued that they gave wrong answers because there is a large difference between the way adults and children think. Piaget was more interested in determining why the fundamental concepts, such as time, quantity, and justice emerged. Moreover, he wanted to engage in the study of cognition in children and how different children showed different cognitive abilities. In the past, ...

Essay

Abstract Development is the sequence of transition that occurs over an individual's life span. A number of well-known psychologists, such as Jean Piaget, Erick Erickson, and Sigmund Freud, identify development as a progression of stages. The different theories of stages of development have several major premises. First, development is disconnected, with subjectively and conditionally distinctive abilities developing in every stage. Second, stages are connected to age progression. And, third, individuals move from one stage to the next in a particular sequence, with every stage depending on abilities achieved in the preceding stage. This paper is an analysis of an ...

This research project explores the place of Jean Piaget in developmental psychology because he is the founder of genetic psychology, and a scientist, whose works have made an important step in the development of psychology as a science. A well-known paradox says that the credibility of a scientist is best determined by the way of how he slowed down the development of science in the field. Modern psychology of child thinking is literally blocked by Piaget. Perhaps, he has no equal among modern psychologists by the number of written books and articles, set of problems, the impact on research ...

A common sleep disorder amongst people is insomnia. Insomniacs have trouble falling asleep, staying asleep and perhaps both. This results in a lack of sleep or too little sleep that causes the person to remain tired and exhausted because of sleep deprivation. There are two main kinds of insomnia; acute and chronic. Acute insomnia is short term whereas chronic insomnia is long-term. Acute insomnia is common amongst people, and it can occur due to work overload, stress, tension, a traumatic event in life and family pressure, etc. This kind of insomnia does not last for more than a few ...

Chapter 2

LITERATURE REVIEW This chapter is comprised of the review of relevant theoretical and evidence-based literature. The review begins with a discussion of the literature on Diffusion of Innovation (DOI) theory, Motivational Theory (MT), and Constructivist Theory to establish the conceptual framework. Each theory is discussed in the context of pedagogical practice. The review continues with the discussion of the literature on technology and social media in general, as well as on the technology, social media and learning in particular. The review then concludes with the review of the research literature on using Twitter in EFL teaching with learning in ...

The prime motif behind learning interventions is that they stimulate and catalyze the pace of cognitive learning for children. The zone of proximal development, as explained by Lev Vygotsky , is the difference of capabilities of a learner when aided by external influence and on his own. However, there is another theory of learning intervention which says that the development of learning can be stimulated at an individual’s level when his experiences help him in understanding things (Ultanir 196). This essay proposes the utility of Constructivism which says that human beings are better learner of that information which they ...

Piaget’s cognitive theory is a theory that explains the development of a child and the human intelligence as a whole. According to Piaget, a person’s childhood always matters a lot and contributes greatly to development their cognitive development. This idea is commonly known as a development stage theory. Using the four stage of cognitive, the experiment given to the kids by Piaget would yield different outcomes. Piaget argues that in the field of education, cognitive development occurred in two stages, that is Assimilation and accommodation and the two go hand in hand so that their interdependent on ...

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Abstract Every speech is embellished by metaphoric expression, despite its context, content, and tone. In different fields the application of metaphors may vary, yet still they are applied regardless the situation consciously or unconsciously. In the speech of adults, metaphoric expressions play pivotal role serving as the instruments of persuasion, simplification, and demonstration. There is less evidence that explain the utilization of metaphors by children. Some scholars insist that children use metaphoric expressions unconsciously, while the other researchers imply that they implement the metaphors due to their symbolic perception of the environment. There is certain inconsistency in the results ...

Introduction

In education, it is vital to create an appropriate curriculum development procedure whose objective is to attain a good intellectual property development in children. Concerning the above, I, therefore, seek to review the educational development for toddlers/preschoolers whose age bracket is two years to 5 years. The age is the second stage of childhood and preschools and prekindergarten, therefore, tends to be a crucial area for children's life and, later on, impact on the general life of the individual. Given these, I henceforth seek to develop a one-week educational curriculum that spans from Monday to Friday; the expected results ...

According to Piaget`s theory, adolescence is the period of the fourth stage of the cognitive development. The formal stage is a stage of cognitive development during which the individual learn to think abstractly, to use concepts; combinatorial mental ability develops. Analyzing an event, a phenomenon, an individual can take into account all aspects of this phenomenon(Wood, Smith & Grossniklaus, 2001). Three key features of adolescent thinking are (1) the ability to combine different variable when searching for the solution to the problem, (2) the ability to guess about how one phenomenon influences others, (3) the ability to join ...

Physical body effects occurring during the aging process

The skin is one of the peripheral body organs that clearly indicate changes in the aging process. It is evident by the continual loss of skin elasticity in adults. In the process, wrinkles are formed alongside the pigmentation related to senescence. Collagen and elastin are protein fibers whose presence makes the skin consume slack and stay adherent tightly onto the underlying skin structures (Abdulraheem, 2014). Changes in the eyesight are prominently evident in the elderly, especially those above their 50s for whom their decline in visual acuity seems to be accelerating. The reason most elderly people above 50s use ...

A Socio-Linguistic Study

Literature Review A Socio-Linguistic Study

Abstract

The enduring widespread political and public engagements in the Arab world have actually empowered many segments of the public in those regions. The debate on the impact of social media on various aspects of the Arab world as well as globally continues among the Arab policy makers. The incessant strong progress, acceptance and diversity of the usage of social media platforms across the entire Arab world in the recent years, specifically in 2012points to the fact that many well-known movements like the Arab Spring and extensive social media usage are sweeping the Arab world. ...

Neurological disorders that affect children during development are currently not well understood but as their incidence increases, a lot of research has been put into it. These disorders present themselves in the first few months after birth indicating that they happen during development in the womb, during birth or du childhood development. According to Flavell, Miller and Miller (1993), the first few years are the most important and thus any change in the environment as demonstrated by Piaget affects their ability to grow their cognitive capacity. Such assumptions thus, form the basis of childhood psychology and go into explaining ...

Human growth and development have been studied, analyzed and researched for many centuries. There are several important individuals who have paved the path in understanding the human growth and development. In the past hundreds of years theories have come to light on what causes human development and growth, and what stages of life we are to experience different milestones. One theory that will be looked at is psychosocial development theory. This theory was coined by Erik Erikson and the research he performed showed how social interaction builds personality and behavior. He found that ego development is crucial and adolescent ...

A typically developed ten-year-old becomes stuck in a small space and is not found and rescued for ten hours. A ten-year-old child understands their bodies natural needs of eating, drinking, and relieving oneself. Once the child realizes they are unable to free themselves, panic would be the first response, most likely followed by screaming for help. Each hour the child is stuck will add to the panic and despair felt by the child. Once someone has located the child, they will be able to reassure the child that help is on the way, and depending of the extent of ...

If you look at the way children were handled even a couple of generations ago, it was in vogue to look at children as smaller versions of adults. They might have been smaller, but they were expected to move as quickly as possible into adopting adult patterns of behavior. Such maxims as “Spare the rod, spoil the child” and “Children should be seen and not heard” were signs that the whims of childhood were not things to be indulged but instead were to be tamped down as quickly as possible by the realities of adulthood. It was not uncommon ...

Attachment theory provides an explanation for the relationship between a parent and a child influences subsequent development. The theory is an idea in developmental psychology concerning the importance of "attachment" regarding personal development. This theory originated from John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth. However, other theorists had similar theories; they include Hazan& Shaver and Harlow. According to Harlow’s Monkeys (1958), his objective was to investigate the system by which the newborn rhesus monkey and the mother are attached to one another. It was found that these young children were exceedingly reliant on their mothers for comfort, protection, nutrition and ...

Interesting Population to Work With

According to Hulme and Blegen (2010), Appalachia is a cultural group that is found in Appalachian region. The Appalachian region stretches from Northern Mississippi, Georgia and Alabama to New York State’s Southern Tier. This region hosts a population of 23 million persons but even with this big population the region has suffered isolation. The Appalachians are viewed as a very temperamental people with undesired behaviors. Many writers have revealed that the Appalachia community is prone to violence and education level is very low. In deed most of the West Coast and East Costs and popular media have constantly portrayed the image ...

Article Name 1: ‘The Clouds are alive because they fly in the air as if they were birds’: A re-analysis of what children say and mean in clinical interviews in the work of Jean Piaget.

Article Name 2: Educational Implication of Piaget and Vygotsky language learning theories in Pakistani context: A review.

Article Name 3: Piaget’s cognitive behaviourist account of conservation in mathematics

Article Name 4: Jean Piaget’s ideas about foundations of education

Article Name 5: Outcomes of nutrition knowledge and healthy food choices in 5 to 6 year old children who received nutrition intervention based on Piaget’s theory

Summary

Physical activity and play are topics which have been always stressed ...

Discussion 1:

Can violence risk be assessed in the same manner for male perpetrators vs. female perpetrators of domestic violence? Can similar assessment instruments be used for male perpetrators and female perpetrators of domestic violence? Do you think that treatment approaches should be the same or different for male perpetrators vs. female perpetrators of domestic violence?

Violence risk assessment should be different between men and women for the obvious reason that men and women have different motivations and capability in committing violence. According to statistics, men are more aggressive and violent than women as evidenced by data ...

Section A: Learning Theories in the Big World

During the course of this semester, the process of gaining insightful information regarding the different learning theories allowed me to appreciate the different techniques used to facilitate learning. During the first part of the course, I was able to learning five learning theories which enable me to see how learners process insights and gain knowledge from them through the techniques proposed ...

Both Piaget’s and Vygotsky’s theories have a common field, the cognitive development in children. Cognitive development refers to the study of development in children in parts of language learning, speech, processing information plus other brain development aspects. It compares children’s cognitive psychology from the point of view of an adult. The two theories try to explain how children develop using cognitive development.

Comparing the two theories, their similarity only lies on the fact that they both explain that social interaction is the underlying factor in cognitive development in children, but then different methods and factors are ...

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It is commonly known that children are the young individuals who have not reached the age of majority, and are the offspring of their natural parents. Starting from the end of the 19th century, the roles of family and children in particular have begun shifting, and remain changing up to these days. The relationships between children and parents have been the subjects of studies of many disciplines, starting from psychology and early child development to economics and politics. Parental involvement (regarded as "the interaction and assistance provided by parents to children" (Blair, 2014) into the developmental ...

Two pivotal approaches to cognitive development that challenged Piaget’s widely-known theory are Vygotsky’s sociocultural approach and the information-processing perspective. In spite of the distinction between psychogenesis and epistemogenesis, Lev Vygotsky’s and Jean Piaget’s views manage to complete each other and reach a similar conclusion—knowledge is formed within a certain social context and has a specific material (Tryphon, 1996).

Piaget proposes that, during the development of human thinking, we go through stable, predictably structured sequences of stages. The consistency and stability of these stages are undoubtedly questioned by today’s standards in psychological research (Baron 1995). For ...