PSY 122 Child Growth and Development *Key Assessment: OBSERVATION *OF A CHILD and GROUP OF CHILDREN (This key assessment will be in 2 parts; *a total of 4 separate observation papers*) NAEYC Standards and Supportive skills: Standard 1 Promoting Child Development and Learning 1a Knowing and understanding young children’s characteristics and needs 1b Knowing and understanding the multiple influences on development and learning Standard 3 Observing‚ Documenting‚ and Assessing to
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Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development Jean Piaget (1896-1980) was one of the most influential researchers in the area of developmental psychology during the 20th century. Piaget originally trained in the areas of biology and philosophy and considered himself a "genetic epistemologist." He was mainly interested in the biological influences on "how we come to know." He believed that what distinguishes human beings from other animals is our ability to do "abstract symbolic reasoning." Piaget’s views
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PSYCHOLOGY OF TEACHING AND LEARNING (ED504) MODULE 2: MAIN ASSESSMENT QUESTION 2: Imagine you are on your break hour at school and you walked into the staff lounge to discover Piaget‚ Vygotsky‚ Erikson and Kohlberg are there. Their conversation is about learning and development. Write a paper tracing the conversation between each of these theorists. Be sure to accurately reflect the stance that each theorist would take. What would be the implications of any one of the theorist as a teacher
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The theorists are John Dewey‚ Jean Piaget‚ B.F. Skinner‚ Howard Gardner‚ and Lev Vygotsky. John Dewey’s philosophy made an influence on education. He believed that it is important to emphasize children and their interests rather than subject matter. This influenced me because I believe that children won’t have
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lives. Children’s involvement in play is means of gaining control over events that they cannot control in reality. Children use play to help master events that they find traumatic or stressful. Mastery is achieved through repetitive play. Eriksons (1963) work focused on mastery elements of theory: - Description of a sequence of psychological stages across the lifespan. - Each stage characterised by a conflict that must be resolved to progress to further stages. - Play resolved conflicts
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Cycle of social changes Impact of education Urbanization HIV/AIDS THEORY Biological theory G. Stanley Hall Psychoanalytic theories Sigmund Freud Anna Freud Erik Erikson COGNITIVE THEORIES Piaget – cognitive stages Vygotsky – Social relationships Information Processing – Problem solving LEARNING & CONDITIONING THEORY Focus on external consequences of actions versus Social Cognitive theory – focus on role of learning
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Learning Theorists Piaget (1896-1980) described development as going through different mental processes. He believed that all children pass through the stages but environmental influences on children will vary the ages each stage is reached. A child who is given more learning opportunities will develop faster by progressing through the stages at a faster rate. Therefore play and children activites facilitated by an adult increase he rate of development. Sensory Motor Stage: Birth to 2 Years-An
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philosophy. Each theory will be discussed with a focus on one or two particular theorist. For Conforming I will look at theorists from both the nature and nurture perspective‚ Gesell and Skinner. The Reforming component of the paper will reflect on constructivist theorist Vygotsky and Psychodynamic theorist Erikson. Conforming I have defined the conforming model of learning as children learning in a traditionally accepted way where they will progress through stages of development according to either
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Strayer University 2 Traditional Learning Theories Cognitive constructivism is based on the work of Swiss developmental psychologist Jean Piaget. Piaget’s theory has two major parts: a component that predicts what children can and cannot understand at different ages‚ and a theory of development that describes how children develop cognitive abilities.(Piaget 1970) It is the theory of development that will be the focus here because it is the major foundation for cognitive constructivist approaches
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development and discontinuous change occurs in steps C. Maturation falls into Nature versus Nurture because it is biological Readiness. If your body is not ready to do something it will not happen. 7. Language- Speaking Natisist versus Behaviorist‚ Skinner is a behaviorist‚ Chomsky is Natisits Learning- Relatively permanent change in behavior Temperament- Biological Disposition Innate- Biological Genetics Growth- Increase in size of organism‚ and of its parts 8.
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