Documentation Plan Child name: Ethan Gaines Age: 4 years old Observation location: Social interaction with peers in the outdoors area. Observer: Terry Spencer Summary: After completing several observations using different methods on Ethan Gaines‚ this data will show how he is developing. According to Piaget‚ the three-year-old is in the preoperational stage of development. One main characteristic of a three-year-old is their egocentric‚ or self-centered
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will be discussing the development of a four year old child. With the support of relevant theories including the work of Jean Piaget and Erik Erikson‚ I will discuss the environmental influences that promote the physical‚ cognitive and psychosocial development of a four year old child. I will also review the importance of play in the child’s development and propose an activity of play that would enhance the child’s development. In the world of a four year old child there is a lot of changing
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[pic] Physical Development birth-3years The physical development for this age group is described below: Baby raises head and chest when lying on stomach and supports its upper body with arms when lying on stomach they are able to stretch their legs out and kick when lying on their stomach or back. They are able to open and shut their hands‚ pushing down on their legs when their feet are placed on a firm surface. At this age sucking and grasping reflexes develop the baby is able to focus and
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The Negative Effects of Child Care on Child Development Dxx Wxxxxxxxx Anthropology 101 Mr. Bxx Lxxxxx September 5‚ 2010 Is child care having a negative effect on the development of children in the United States? Studies show that there are indeed negative psychological and developmental effects on children. Scientists in the United States‚ Canada‚ and the United Kingdom are coming to the same conclusion. It is best for a child to be cared for at home. Over the past five to six decades
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Unit 1: Understand Child and Young Person Development 1.1 Describe Kohlberg’s stages or moral development Kohlberg’s theory of moral development is an adaptation of the development theory of Jean Piaget. Piaget studied many aspects of moral judgment‚ most of his findings fit into a two stage process of moral development. Put into the simplest of terms‚ Stage 1: children younger than 10 or 11 years think about moral dilemmas one way and Stage 2: older children consider them differently. Kohlberg
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are general stages children pass through as they develop and certain time frames during which these transitions occur. There is not a specific time that is considered normal for any individual child to attain a goal‚ as cultural and environmental factors are also important to development‚ but researchers have formed general‚ broad ranges of time in which skills such as walking and talking are displayed. Children with disabilities or delays may follow different paths of development. Children with
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language skills that help them develop into an adult. At the age of 8 children love to play games with words and know how to spell many words. Even though they can spell many words‚ they don’t necessarily know what they mean. Children in there school age years enjoy having fun and showing others what they can do. In the 3rd grade‚ boys and girls are able to classify items that can be put in distinct categories. They can number‚ relate and can explain in words what they are doing and why. Children learn new
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children. His theory suggests that in order to understand children’s development‚ we must have a broad view of the inter-related contexts in which the child is developing. He believes that we need to look at the impact of these symbiotic systems that influence children’s development. These systems include the family of the child and expand the analysis to the school‚ friends‚ neighborhood‚ jobs‚ and larger social system that the child lives in. Bronfenbrenner’s theory gives us tools to describe how all
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outlined eight stages of development that identified the important periods of development that occurred throughout a lifespan. Each stage identifies the significance of personality growth that occurs and underlines the specific developmental crisis that needs to be resolved in each stage. The first stage is trust vs. mistrust‚ which occurs during the first year of existence. The sense of trust of an infant is formed by the quality of the caregiver. The caregiver plays a major role in this stage since a
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Taniya Moon September 19‚ 2014 Child Development 101 Cognitive Theory One of the first people to have a cognitive theory about development was scientist Jean Piaget. When Piaget did an IQ test on children he figured out something to look at differently about development: how the children thought as they came up with their answers was more important than what they actually knew. “In the cognitive theory equilibrium‚ a state of mental balance in which people are not confused because they can use
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