Erikson versus Piaget: Active and Passive Learning Billy Jenkins Grand Canyon University: PSY 650 January 27‚ 2012 Abstract In this paper‚ the idea of active versus passive learning is discussed‚ as well as the major learning theories of Piaget and Erikson. Furthermore‚ their major learning theories are compared to each other and applied to the principles of active and passive learning. Because of my teaching and classroom experience‚ the application of active and passive learning
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Flash Team meeting‚ Group therapy‚ and Documentation Observation: Entering treatment Flash Team meeting I noticed everything was pretty much the same except the unity I was on had some changes. The unit I was interning at used to be the Senior Care Unit ‚ but now it switched to MedPsyc. The senior unit was preferably for senior citizens with mental illness and those who are medically compromised who need mental health treatment. Now with MedPsyc the unit is able to charge insurance companies for
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to other individuals in the environment and develop and assign a meaning or definition to a word or object which is stored in memory. Others in the environment can reinforce that verbal behavior by further defining and reinforcing what that child or intellectually disabled individual has already constructed a meaning for and stored. Skinner believed that all behavior‚ including verbal behavior was influenced by positive and negative reinforcement. Through these types of reinforcement
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The ability to embrace Diversity will enhance one’s ability to collaborate with others as a team to solve or eradicate many social issues or misunderstandings. My own observations and experiences I believe started when I was born‚ my family is very diverse. My mother’s family is multicultural thus diversity was a big influence in my formative years that carried over into whom I am now. Because of this I feel I am a compassionate and observant of others feelings and needs when it comes to how each
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prerequisite for the change. This makes the Piagets theory a biological theory. Piaget came up with the four stage of cognitive development. First stage is sensorimotor‚ during the age of 0-2 years the child will illustrate some sort of egocentrism which shows that the infant only knows the world through its immediate sense. The infant cannot distinguish between itself and the environment and lack of object permanence. This basically means that if a child can’t see the object‚ to them it doesn’t exist
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Jason Brown Jean Piaget Paper Educational Psychology Jean Piaget (1896 - 1980) Jean Piaget was born in 1896 in the French-speaking Swiss city of Neuchatel to an “agnostic medievalist” and a religious mother with “socialist leanings”. He became a professional in mollusk classification and was published in specialized journals. After a doctoral thesis on the taxonomy of Alpine mollusks‚ in 1918‚ and studies in psychology and philosophy in Zurich and Paris‚ he joined the Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Educational Psychology Piaget in the classroom Describe 4 educational beliefs/practices that are grounded by the development ideas presented by Piaget. The educational implications of Piaget’s theory are closely tied to the concept of intelligence as the dynamic and emerging ability to adapt to the environment with ever increasing competence (Piaget‚ 1963). According to the development ideas presented by Piaget’s theory‚ cognitive structures are patterns of physical and mental action that
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Preschool Observation Child Development 103 Instructor: S. Gethers Name: Don Carrington Child Center Address: 4339 W. 129th Hawthorne‚ CA 90250 Date of Visit: 13 June‚ 2014 Time: 9:15 A.M -12:30 P.M Director’s Name: Cheraki Davis Teacher: Cristian Teacher Assistants: Veronica and Chazmine Number of Children: 21 Ages: 3 - 5 years old Language Skills: Language skills refer to the child’s ability to speak and to communicate so that he/she can understand and be understood by others. It
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gross motor skills‚ which are related to active play‚ consisted of throwing a large ball and running at a long distance to catch it‚ jumping up and down‚ climbing up the slide and jungle gym with ease and quickly. There was constant movement with the child in all the 45 minutes that I observed her and her level of activity was very high. It was hard to catch her at moment of stillness‚ and even then he would be fidgeting under the table or in her seat. Her fine motor skill included‚ using crayons and
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I would have targeted behaviors of the child playing by himself surrounded by his peers‚ interrupting another classmate or teacher‚ or acting as if inanimate objects have come to life. Frequency recording was still one of the recordings I found difficult and using the CDL for the first time didn’t make things happen seamlessly. For example‚ I originally was observing another boy‚ but his mother happened to come pick him up about 10 minutes into my observation. Luckily I happened to notice Alex because
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