Introduction This assignment is intended to provide evidence of a candidate’s knowledge and understanding of children and young people’s development birth to 19 years. By completing all tasks within the assignment‚ the candidate will provide evidence that meets the Learning Outcomes and assessment criteria for Unit 022‚ Understand Child and Young Person Development. Tasks There are five tasks to this assignment. A Complete tables; Questions B Complete table; Report C Report D Report E Complete table
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Jean Piaget was a Swiss psychologist who was interested in child development. He came up with the famous theory of the Cognitive Stages in children through adulthood. The stages include sensorimotor‚ preoperational‚ concrete operational‚ and formal operational. The different stages apply to different age groups. For example‚ the first stage‚ sensorimotor‚ applies to children at birth through 2 years of age‚ so this would not apply to the concrete operational kids whose age level includes kids who
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Question 1 The stage of Piaget’s theory of childhood cognitive development that Mollie and her friends are in is the ‘preoperational stage.’ The preoperational stage consists of children from the ages of 2 to 7 years old. At this stage‚ the child is able to talk and communicate and can also think in symbols and images. They have a good imagination but are unable to manipulate information given to them. They have egocentric thought‚ meaning that they cannot think from another person’s point of view
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The basic principles underlying learner developments are: Learning Experience: The learning experience is a never ending cycle‚ and continues long after your time at school. Once a new skill is learnt‚ that skill can be built upon. A reading skill can be built upon by increasing vocabulary‚ improving spelling‚ reading and understanding more complex texts‚ decoding unfamiliar words and even learning to read and write in another language. The learning experience can be viewed as a journey‚ where
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This essay will discuss human development across the lifespan. This discussion will include physical‚ cognitive and psychosocial development in relation to the theorist Jean Piaget who developed the cognitive stage theory which emphasises the individual’s mental process. Erik Erikson who developed the eight stage theory of psychosocial development‚ which discusses the socially and culturally influenced processes of development of the ego‚ or self. Infants are born equipped with a number of survival
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through from birth to adulthood. The Piagetian model includes the sensori motor period‚ preoperational period‚ concrete operational period and then the formal operational period. Children begin to learn at a very early age. The first stage of cognitive development is sensorimotor period. This stage begins at birth and lasts until about 2 years old (Otto‚ 2012). It involves the use of motor activity without the use of symbols (Wood‚ 2012). Piaget believes that in this stage children tend to systematically
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An understanding of the full depth and breadth of a child’s development is a prerequisite to effective work with children and youth‚ especially when the practitioner wants to concern himself with deviations from normal development’. (Maier‚ 1969) For this assignment the method of observation used was naturalistic observation‚ which is a method of observation used by psychologists‚ ‘they observe people in their normal environment’s’(Boyd‚ 2007) This type of observation is called naturalistic because
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forefront through his approach to child development. His theory offers the most differentiated and complete account of contextual influences on child development (Berk & Meyers‚ 2015). Bronfenbrenner’s theory known as the Ecological system theory views the child’s development inside a complex system of relationship that are affected by multiple levels of the surrounding environment (p. 26). Biological influences and environmental forces shape a child’s development known as a bioecological model. Bronfenbrenner’s
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Introduction This booklet will introduce you to the main psychological perspectives to the understanding of a child’s behaviour development. Each perspective will be described in as much detail as possible‚ and the theorist that are linked to them. The main perspectives are; * Psychodynamic * Freud * Behaviourist * Skinner * Cognitive * Piget * Humanist * Rogers‚ Maslow‚ Cooley and mead * Social learning The psychodynamic perspective This perspective
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“individuals not only develop a unique personality‚ but also acquire attitudes and skills that make them active‚ contributing members of their society that recognize development throughout a lifespan and the impact of culture” (Berk‚ 2014. p. 16). Based on Erickson’s eight stages‚ when a child is in the early childhood stage of development‚ they are considered to be in the initiative versus guilt stage. Just as the term indicates‚ initiative is when the child begins to try new things‚ is able to successfully
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