Sarah Waddington Outcome 1.1 - Complete a chart showing the expected pattern of children’s development. Age | Communication | Physical Development | Moral Development | Cognitive Development | Social and Emotional Development | 0-3 Months | Babies cry to attract attention for its needs‚ e.g. when hungry or upset. Around 6-8 weeks old‚ sounds develop - coos and chuckles join crying as a way to attract attention. | Babies are born with instinctive reactions‚ for example‚ rooting‚ swallowing
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There are three main areas of child development. These are physical‚ communication and intellectual and social‚ emotional and behavioural development. The physical stage takes place naturally but children must have opportunities to develop their natural skills. Children will need support to develop their gross and fine motor skills. Gross motor skills use the large muscles in the body‚ arms and legs‚ for example crawling‚ walking and throwing. Fine motor skills use the smaller muscles in the fingers
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Factors that affect a child’s development Money Physical- Low income means that they will have a small house and it would be like being stuck in a pen. They might not have a garden with the house‚ meaning the child doesn’t get excersice outside during play which may include running. This will slow down there physical development. Interlecture- They might not have internet access and would have to go to the library. However if a child’s parents are on drugs then they may not take them to the
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Child and Adolescents Development Theories The first psychologist to make a systematic study of cognitive development was Jean Piaget in the 1920’s. “Piaget believed that human beings organize new information in two ways: through assimilation and through accommodation” (Rathus 241). He showed that children think in dramatically different ways than adults. There are three basic components to Piaget’s Cognitive Theory are schemas‚ the processes of adaption‚ and four stages of development. Piaget
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1.0 introduction In the study of development‚ nurture is defined as the environmental conditions that influence a child’s development (T. M McDevitt and J. E. Ormrod ‚ 2010). A child ’s home environment‚ friends with whom he spends time with‚ the food that he eats and the types of movies he watches -- not to mention the content and or education background – are all the factors that influence his physical‚ social and cognitive development in both positive and negative perspective. In this paper
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Unit 1 Child and Young Person Development TASK 1: Personal development and progression task 1) My main motivation for undertaking this course is to gain a qualification that will provide me with options into further educational opportunities that I hope will ultimately open doors into pursuing a career working in schools. I discovered my passion for working with children and young adults during my time as an adult instructor in the army cadets and found it to be very rewarding but never
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Development‚ Influence and Impact Cynthia Bell SOC312: Child Family & Society (BFE1206A) Instructor: Annamarie Cochrane March 10‚ 2012 Tools: Thesis I had always dreamed of having two children‚ first a son and second a little girl. Every new baby is exposed to an atmosphere full of infinite possibilities; moral or immoral learning along with the development of self-discipline continue all through life. Subsequently all children that are born are different from any other child. No
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Understanding child and adolescent development Erik Erikson in 1956 researched and developed Eight stages of development. According to Erikson‚ the socialisation process consists of eight phases – the ‘eight stages of man’‚ his eight stages of man were formulated‚ not through experimental work‚ but through wide-ranging experience in psychotherapy‚ including extensive experience with children and adolescents from low- as well as upper- and middle – social classes. Each stage is regarded by Erikson
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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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Rican. She is an only child and has few friends her age outside of her daycare that she plays with. Her mother and father are now both living in the same home as Victoria after recently being separated and sharing custody for almost eight months. She seems to really enjoy having both of her parents in the home at the same time. Victoria has a one year old dog whose name is ’’Marley’’ and she is a Boxer. Victoria received her dog as a gift for Christmas when she was about two years old. Victoria is now
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