What is Language? Language is a tool we have been using to understand and develop our thinking. We have been: Learning about the thinking of others by reading Expressing our own thinking through writing Exchanging ideas with others by speaking and listening Thought and language can contribute to clear‚ effective thinking and communication. Language is a system of symbols for thinking and communicating. At 5 years of age human is expected to have; Articulated speech‚ Vocabulary of more than 6000 words
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Theories and principles for planning and enabling learning In this assignment I am aiming to explain three different theories of learning (behaviourism‚ cognitivism and humanism) and how they contribute to the motivation‚ experience and aspirations of learners. Behaviourism Behaviourists have a clear definition that we learn in response to external stimuli. Anything from a sweet smell to the layout of classroom‚ the clothes someone is wearing. They reject the thinking of psychologists who are
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development Task 2 theorists‚ Cache Level 3 CYP 3.1 pc[2.1] Explain how children and young people’s development is influenced by a range of personal factors. A child is influenced by a range of Personal factors such as: - Influences before and at birth eg. Maternal diet during pregnancy or birth itself eg. problems due to lack of oxygen etc. - Health - child who has ill health may spend time in hospital and miss time from pre-school and school affecting their learning on all levels including
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Comparing Theorists Jean Piaget was the first psychologist to suggest a theory of moral development. According to Piaget‚ development emerges from action‚ and people construct and reconstruct their knowledge of the world as a result of interactions with the environment. He wanted to find the “biological explanation of knowledge”. Piaget’s theory identifies four developmental stages‚ which are: 1. Sensorimotor stage (birth - 2)‚ 2. Pre-operational stage (2-7 years old)‚ 3. Concrete operational
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good behavioural traits. If these are not provided‚ children may be able to function effectively in society. These are also important for the children’s growth and development. A good family will ensure that these are provided. According to Lev Vygotsky‚ “Learning would be exceedingly laborious‚ not to mention hazardous‚ if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do. Fortunately‚ most human behaviour is learned observationally through modeling: from
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Activity: The Major Developmental Theories Review the following theoretical perspectives on development: psychodynamic theories (e.g.‚ Freud)‚ psychosocial theories (e.g.‚ Erikson)‚ behaviorist (learning) theories (e.g.‚ Watson‚ Skinner)‚ social learning theories (e.g.‚ Bandura)‚ cognitive developmental theories (e.g.‚ Piaget)‚ information-processing theories (e.g.‚ Siegler)‚ and bioecological theories (Bronfenbrenner). Question 1: Which theory or theories focus more on the importance of nature
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ASSIGNMENT #1:_THEMES IN DEVELOPMENT_____ Review the following theoretical perspectives on development: psychodynamic theories (e.g.‚ Freud)‚ psychosocial theories (e.g.‚ Erikson)‚ behaviorist (learning) theories (e.g.‚ Watson‚ Skinner)‚ social learning theories (e.g.‚ Bandura)‚ cognitive developmental theories (e.g.‚ Piaget)‚ information-processing theories (e.g.‚ Siegler)‚ and bioecological theories (Bronfenbrenner). Question 1: Which theory or theories focus more on the importance of nature
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functioning and education. With the aid of the brilliant intellectual minds of cognitive/educational theorists: Jean Piaget‚ Erik Erikson and Lev Vygotsky observations‚ beliefs‚ functions‚ expectations and predictions are revealed for growing humans simplified into separate age groups based on their age associated with their level of cognitive development. Swiss theorist Jean Piaget had his long withstanding theory of the four ‘Stages
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current educational practice. So the question is “How do we learn?” For decades‚ researchers and scientists have been discussing how children come to understand the world we live in and how learning occurs. Theorists such as H.Gardner‚ Paiget‚ Vygotsky and Maslow have spent years studying the adolescent brain to find out how we learn and they have all come up with different learning styles. A learning style is the way in which each learner begins to concentrate on‚ process and retain new and
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This theory stresses the interaction between developing people and the culture in which they live. Sociocultural theory grew from the work of seminal psychologist Lev Vygotsky‚ who believed that parents‚ caregivers‚ peers and the culture at large were responsible for the development of higher order functions. According to Vygotsky‚ "Every function in the child’s cultural development appears twice: first‚ on the social level‚ and later‚ on the individual level; first‚ between people (interpsychological)
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