Chapter 9: COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT IN EARLY CHILDHOOD Piaget’s Theory: The Pre-operational Stage ! Piaget’s pre-operational stage: ages 2–7 years ! Use of symbolic thinking grows ! Still not capable of operations: organized‚ formal‚ logical mental processes that characterize school-age children ! ! Make-Believe Play ! Play detaches from the real-life conditions associated with it ! prior to 2‚ children can only play with objects that are realistic; after 2‚ they can pretend and object is something
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Psychology Final ReviewBehavioral Modification- a formal technique for promoting the frequency of desirable behaviors and decreasing the incidence of unwanted ones (good behavior is reinforced) Classical Conditioning- a type of learning in which an organism responds in a particular way to a neutral stimulus that normally does not bring about a response (dog responds to bell thinks of food) Operant Conditioning- a form of learning in which a voluntary response is strengthened or weakened by its
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ERIK ERIKSON’S EIGHT DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES Erik Erikson was a psychological pioneer well thought out before his time. Instead of dealing in psychosexual stages‚ he was discussing work in terms of psychosocial stages. Heavily influence by Freud and believing that personality played a huge part in the conflict within the ego itself‚ Erikson was the first ego psychologist. Believing that growth can take place well into adulthood‚ Erikson divided his eight stages into three that were going on simultaneously
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From 1950‚ Erikson identified eight developmental stages a person needs to conquer in his lifetime for psychosocial well-being (cited in Hoare‚ 2001). At each developmental period‚ a specific emotional attribute is at risk. Should this risk be managed properly‚ the obtained attribute will lend strength to achieving all subsequent attributes. Otherwise‚ an adverse attribute is adopted‚ which unfavourable alters one’s development. Individuals’ attributes must be developed with the help of their social
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There are different forms of developmental theory but in this paper we only compare and contrast three of them. They include psychodynamic‚ psychosocial and behaviorism theory. Although these theories are based on different principles‚ the underlying commonalities across the theories are that they can be classified on a basis of either organicism or mechanism philosophical models. For psychodynamic theory‚ unconscious urges control human behavior and it also argues that there are three components
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The significance of milestones Milestones are usually grouped together in five major areas which are to be assessed during the growth and development of a child. They are: physical growth‚ cognitive development‚ language development‚ and sensory and motor development. The assessment of the physical development of a child is very important during the growth and development of a child from infancy to adolescence and also the later years‚ it helps in that it allows the parents of the child
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Framework acknowledges the significance of involvement of parents‚ family and community. The programme at the early childhood stage helps to ensure opportunities for holistic learning and growth. The ECCE programme needs to be determined by children’s developmental and contextual needs‚ providing for more need based inputs and an enabling environment. Given this need for an individualised approach‚ it was believed that a common
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Developmental Analysis Paper Tianna N. Johnson Liberty University December 7‚ 2014 ABSTRACT Human growth and development over a lifetime shows how a person evolves from birth to the time of death. Psychologists study the development of children teaching influencing their future. My childhood experiences influences my adulthood‚ but I have to show maturity. Does this mean that I do the same things I did as I child? What kind of growth did I show from elementary age to high school age
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ERIK ERIKSON’S EIGHT DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES Erik Erikson’s Eight Developmental Stages Abstract Development theories are psychological stages of life. Erik Erikson is best known for his stages of psychosocial development and coining the term ‘identity crisis’. Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development is one of the best known theories of personality. Though similar to Freud‚ Erikson believed that personality develops in a series of 8 stages. Unlike Freud’s theory of psychosocial stages
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anthropologists. Works such as John Whiting’s model of pyscho-cultural research provided psychologist with a basic framework to continue upon. The developmental niche model is one example. The theory was developed in the mid 1980s by Super and Harkness with the goal of understanding how variability in different culture’s effect how a child develops. The developmental niche model uses three different components in an attempt to achieve this. The first component is physical and social settings of daily life
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