CHOOSING A THEORY I have chosen B.F. Skinner and John B. Watson’s behaviorism and social learning theory to be the theory that I identify with most. This theory is all about learned behavior. Whether it is from a child’s peers‚ teachers or parents‚ I believe all of our actions should reflect what we would like our children or the children in our care to strive for. Reinforcing a particular behavior can cause the act or motion within this behavior to be repeated. For example if a child climbs
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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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What is child development? Why study child development? Child development involves the scientific study of changes in the child’s biological‚ social‚ cognitive and emotional behaviour across the span of childhood. Every child’s development is unique and complex. Although children develop through a generally predictable sequence of steps and milestones‚ they may not proceed through these steps in the same way or at the same time. Psychologists and development researchers have proposed a number of
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1. Summarise the main development of a child from the age range of: 2. years A child grows at the fastest rate between the ages of 0-2 years. Their gross & fine motor skills are developing from the moment they are born‚ starting with the involuntarily kicking of legs and waving arms around as a newborn‚ they will then start to develop their gross motor skills by first being able to hold their own head‚ then they will be able to turn their head to watch an object or person‚ sit unaided‚ roll
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studies involving reaching‚ grasping‚ and catching; and will provide the reader with what the “take-home message” is from these studies. Second‚ I will give a summary of the study on affordances and how this perception-action connection applies to development. Finally‚ I will be providing some of my own insight‚ thoughts‚ and arguments on the studies and material provided in the following. After reading this paper‚ one should have a general understanding of what it takes for a being to be able to reach
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physical development of a Jamaican child Physical development is defined by Tina Bruce and Carolyn Meggitt in the text Child Care and Education as “the way in which the body gains skills and become more complex in its performance.” Arnold Gesell a psychologist and pediatrician put forth normative development guidelines for a child (physical development milestones). The normative development guidelines are categorized into gross motor skills‚ fine -motor skills and balance/coordination skills. Therefore
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Stages of Child Development and Related Developmental Theories Physical development Age | Gross Motor Skills | 2-3 years | Walks more rhythmically; hurried walk changes to run. Jumps‚ hops‚ throw‚ and catches with rigid upper body. Pushes riding toy with feet; little steering. | 3-4 years | Walks up stairs‚ alternating feet‚ and down stairs‚ leading with one foot. Jumps and hops‚ flexing upper body.Throws and catches with slight involvement of upper body; still catches by trapping ball
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In Piaget theory on child development the three stages of development that we go through that starts from infancy are Sensorimotor‚ preoperational‚ and concrete operational. Gonzalez-Mena‚ Janet (2014) states that according to Jean Piaget theory children construct knowledge and develop their reasoning abilities through interactions with people and the environment as they seek to understand the world and how it works (Gonzalez-Mena‚ Janet‚ 2014). When it comes to development Piaget “believed” these
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CHILD DEVELOPMENT OBSERVATION PORTFOLIO ____________________________________________________________________ OBSERVATION AGE METHOD OF AREA OF NO.RANGE OBSERVATIONDEVELOPMENT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1.6 MONTHS CHECKLISTPHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2.2-3 YEARSNARRATIVELANGUAGE
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what you learned about children’s development from age birth – 19 years in each of the areas: Physical - Babies (0-12 months) - I have learnt that babies at this age are learning‚ their gross and fine motor skills such as: Gross motor skills: Baby lies on spine. Arm and leg movements are jerky and uncontrolled. There is almost no heads lag in sitting position. Babies start using the palmer grasp and can transfer objects from hand to hand. Fine motor skills: Babies turn their head towards
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