“The socioeconomic status in which a child is born can have profound lifelong effects” (UNICEF‚ 2016‚ p. 9). Development beginning in early life establishes the foundation for future health and development‚ which is why it is necessary that children be given the best possible start. Familial income is a key determinant of healthy childhood development (Gupta‚ Wit‚ & McKeown‚ 2007). Families with low incomes are likely to lack the resources necessary for children’s health‚ such as: nutritious food;
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Discuss Vygotsky’s theory of cognitive development (8+16) Vygotsky proposed that children’s development is affected by their culture and social interaction. He also suggested that children are not born with knowledge but they gain it through their social interactions with peers and adults; he does not rule out the importance of biological processes but proposes an interdependent relationship between biological development alongside social activity and cultural interaction. Since language is
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thought has been around as early as the Greek philosophers such as Plato and Socrates. Psychology’s routes stem from the early academic disciplines of philosophy‚ physics and biology. In the 1600s philosopher and physiologist Rene Descartes was concerned with how the mind and body worked in coalition. He then went on to write the first physiological psychology extended essay about his theory of automatic reaction. He suggested that the body could affect the mind and that the mind can create a physiological
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which can affect their cognitive development due to the lack of a sense. When children develop their cognition‚ an important part of this development is communication and listening to the family to eventually understand all of the names given to objects and people. Blindness can affect a child’s cognitive development as well‚ due to the child not being able to they see the objects and people they learn to speak about. However‚ even though the child’s cognitive development could be delayed or impaired
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Discipline is an important component of the growth process of children (Child Discipline). Since the beginning of time‚ discipline techniques used have varied with each family. However‚ the general importance of discipline within a household has been commonly accepted. One may ask‚ "What is discipline exactly?" It is human nature to challenge authority. As a natural part of development‚ children tend to test there boundaries. Discipline is the consequences of their misbehavior. If done in an appropriate
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Milestones of a three-year-old play a very significant role in their lives‚ and ultimately affect their future. There are serval different types of milestones three-year-olds can experience‚ including physical‚ language‚ cognitive‚ emotional and social. Physical milestones of a three-year-olds are broken into two parts; gross motor and fine motor. Gross motor milestones for a three-year-olds includes running and walking without tripping‚ jumping‚ hopping‚ standing on one foot‚ walking backwards
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depressed noises. The human brain finds high frequency melodies more attractive or better to listen to. At the same time‚ too many high frequencies can cause one to be annoyed. The average fundamental frequency for a typical baby is about three hundred to four hundred Hertz.(Lewis & Reserved‚ n.d.) Humans naturally find those frequencies annoying so that they can hear a baby when it cries. A good melody consists of a harmonic sequence. In music theory‚ a harmonic sequence is a series of music notes which
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THEME: “DISCIPLINE‚ THE KEY TO ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE” Mr. Chairman‚ Honourable Minister of Education‚ (Very) Rev. Ministers Nananom‚ Distinguished Board Members‚ and Invited Guests‚ Members of Conference of Assisted Secondary Schools Old Students‚ Parents and Guardians‚ Hardworking Staff and Students‚ Ladies and Gentlemen‚ Greetings from Winneba. It is my pleasure to be part of this occasion‚ an occasion to mark the 13th Anniversary and Speech & Prize Giving Day of this relatively young
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Key three and four of chapter thirteen Key three: Why Are Urban Areas Expanding? Urban expansion has been mainly focused on suburbs that surround older cities. Suburban Expansion Cities use to expand by adding peripheral land as they grew. A city now is a legally incorporated entity that encompasses the older portion of the urban area. THE PERIPHERAL MODEL North Americans follow the peripheral model where it is implicated that an urban area includes the city and built-up suburbs. DEFINING URBAN
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theory chosen by the group to critique is the Cognitive development and learning theory. Cognitive development is concerned with the internal processes involved in making sense of the environment‚ and deciding which action might be appropriate. It is associated with acquiring knowledge and it involves attention‚ learning‚ memory‚ perception‚ language‚ problem solving‚ reasoning‚ and thinking. The critique looked at is Constructivism‚ the stages of development‚ including their strengths and weaknesses
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