. The nature versus nurture debate is one of the oldest issues in psychology. The debate centers on the relative contributions ofgenetic inheritance and environmental factors to human development. Some philosophers such as Plato and Descartes suggested that certain things are inborn‚ or that they simply occur naturally regardless of environmental influences. Other well-known thinkers such as John Locke believed in what is known as tabula rasa‚ which suggests that the mind begins as a blank slate
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1 Understand the pattern of development that would normally be expected for children and young people from birth – 19 years 1.1 Explain the sequence and rate of each aspect of development that would normally be expected in children and young people from birth – 19 years Birth – 3 months • Physical Sleeps 20 hours a day Moves around more Focuses both eyes together Can detect smells • Communication Crying – main form of communication (fosters early interaction) Cries
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Child Development: An Examination of Three Theories There are a lot of theories regarding child development. Three of these theories are Bioecological Theory‚ Social-Cognitive Theory and Information-Processing Theory. This paper will discuss these theories by comparing and contrasting them. The first theory is the Bioecological Theory developed by Urie Bronfenbrenner. This theory is based on the nature vs. nurture idea. Bronfenbrenner believed development of a child was determined
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Working Mothers: The Effect on a Child’s Development Introduction What is working mother? Working mother is defined as women who are married or not participating in the labour force for income to raise their children. Women start to be active in the labour force once they open the opportunity to the women to work and it is shown that there were a increasing rate of women in the labour force which is 71.3% at the year of 2010 compare to the year of 1990 (66.7%). It also happened because of the
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Q1: Summarise the main development of a child age 0-2‚ 2-5 & 5-8 yrs. 0-2 Years As a child grows the changes in weight and height size are measured on a centile chart‚ these charts show the expected pattern at the particular ages. Development refers to the skills and abilities that you learn through life‚ but as we all know children are all individual and so when centile charts are used they are based on the “average” child but all children meet these different goals in their own time and don’t
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Down syndrome is a genetic condition that causes a delay in a child development mentally and physically. In every Eight hundred babies one is effect by Down syndrome. Down syndrome can form widely from child to child. Down syndrome has two affects to the person meaning that the child might need a lot of medical attention or lead healthy lives. Down syndrome cannot be prevented but can be discovered before the child is born. The condition of Down syndrome can be treated. (http://kidshealth
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Unit 201: Child and young person development Outcome 1: The main stages of child and young person development |1.1 |Describe the expected pattern of children and young people’s development | | |Physical development | | |Communication and intellectual development
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1.1 Describe the expected pattern of children and young people’s development from birth to 19 years‚ to include: physical development‚ communication and intellectual development‚ social‚ emotional and behavioural development. The expected pattern of children and young people’s development from birth to 19 years has many areas of development‚ starting from birth. 1.2 Describe‚ with examples‚ how different aspects of development can affect one another. 0-3 years Social‚ emotional and behavioural
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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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19 Facilitate learning and development activities to meet individual needs and preferences (HSC 3004) Assessment of this unit This unit introduces you to the knowledge and skills that are needed to support individuals to plan‚ take part in and evaluate learning and development activities. It focuses on the benefits of learning and development activities to individuals‚ the importance of identifying individual needs and the role of the practitioner in planning‚ preparing‚ facilitating and reviewing
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