Adolescents‚ "Jean Piaget‚ the Swiss psychologist‚ has been studying the development of children’s thinking for more than fifty years. Only in the last decade‚ however‚ has American psychology and education come to recognize that Piaget is in fact one of the giants of developing psychology." This idea‚ as well as others throughout my readings‚ has given me a better understanding of the way children develop psychologically through education and Piaget’s stages of cognitive development. Piaget proposed
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Erik Erikson was a psychologist who came up with the theory that everyone goes through eight stages of psychosocial development in their lifetime. This theory is called the "epigenetic principle." How we go through each stage is determined by the situations‚ or development "tasks‚" in our lives. Each stage has a task that is referred to with a two-word phrase‚ such as trust-mistrust’ in the infant’s stage. Also‚ each stage has what is called an optimal time‚’ which means that each stage can
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Social Cognitive Theory HISTORICAL ORIGINS OF SCT CORE CONCEPTS WITHIN SCT TELEVISION: EDUCATOR ’S FRIEND OR FOE? IMPLICATIONS FOR CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION Social cognitive theory (SCT) refers to a psychological model of behavior that emerged primarily from the work of Albert Bandura (1977; 1986). Initially developed with an emphasis on the acquisition of social behaviors‚ SCT continues to emphasize that learning occurs in a social context and that much of what is learned is gained through observation
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In order to compare Freud’s theory of psychosexual development with Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development an overview of each will first be discussed‚ followed by a comparison of similarities and differences. Freud’s Theory of Psychosexual Development Freud believed personality was crystallised in childhood thus proposing a series of developmental stages progressing from birth to puberty. As with other stage theories Freud’s psychosexual stages of development occur in a predetermined
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Erik Erikson’s Stages of Psychosocial Development Erikson’s Theory states that‚ throughout life‚ we go through various stages during which we meet ever changing psychosocial challenges. The completion of the work of each stage— which Erikson calls a crisis—prepares us to move on to the following stage. According to this theory‚ if we do not resolve the crisis during any of the stages we will continue to create events throughout life which will recreate that crisis until we have done the psychosocial
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Application of Educational Development Theories: A Case Study October 26‚ 2010 Understanding human development is considered the key towards maximizing the potentials of every student in the classroom. Developments in various fields‚ such anthropology‚ psychology‚ and biology have contributed largely to reinventing education in the last century. Research is given a central role in shaping “children’s education and experiences in schools” (McDevitt & Ormrod‚ 2010‚ p. 4). The advances in related
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According to Erik Erikson‚ there are eight stages of development an individual will experience throughout his or her lifetime. One of Erikson’s stages‚ which he named identity versus identity confusion‚ occurs specifically in the developmental period of adolescence. In this identity vs. confusion stage‚ an adolescent will explore different roles in hopes to find their positive identity. I believe how adolescents experience this stage is extremely crucial to how they develop and will continue to develop
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Leon Festinger created the cognitive dissonance theory as an attempt to explain why people desire to have consistency between their behaviors and actions. Cognitive dissonance is the distressing mental state people feel when they find themselves doing things that don’t fit with what they know‚ or having opinions that do not fit with other opinions they hold (Festinger‚ 1957; as cited in Griffin‚ 2009). Thus‚ people are motivated to change either their behavior or their belief when feelings of dissonance
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Comparing and Applying Theories of Development Psychology is a very vast field of scientific study of the human mind and behaviors. Just like all science‚ psychology uses the scientific method approach and use theories to promote their objective thoughts. There are numerous theories associated with psychology within various perspectives of sub-fields. A particular sub-field is Developmental Psychology and three of those theories include Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory‚ Erik Erickson’s Psychosocial
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The Theory Cognitive Development is a mental process of development. The Theory of Cognitive Development in childhood shows the thought‚ intelligence‚ and language process as it changes as a child grows and develops. The Theory of Cognitive Development shows how thought can influence a person’ s behavior. This theory will be important in my future profession of nursing because nurses are the ones who assure growth and development of a child. When a child goes for a
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