Lindy Warwick Life Span Development June 23‚ 2013 Child Development Project Piaget and Vygotsky believed that play gives children good practice in adult-like behaviors. Vygotsky believes that various forms of play enables children to develop increasingly sophisticated ways of thinking about relationships between objects and what they mean. Piaget suggests that knowledge is the product of direct motor behavior. For my project I observed my children playing the Uno card game. The age limit
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Child Development: 9- to 12-Year-Olds In late elementary and middle school your child experiences a period of tremendous intellectual‚ social-emotional‚ and physical change. School demands increase‚ friends become as important as family‚ and puberty begins to reshape her body. This is also a time when individual differences among children become more apparent. Here are the stages you can expect you child to pass through during early adolescence: 9-Year-Olds Physical Development uses tools‚
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Effects of poverty on the physical development of a Jamaican child Physical development is defined by Tina Bruce and Carolyn Meggitt in the text Child Care and Education as “the way in which the body gains skills and become more complex in its performance.” Arnold Gesell a psychologist and pediatrician put forth normative development guidelines for a child (physical development milestones). The normative development guidelines are categorized into gross motor skills‚ fine -motor skills and balance/coordination
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Office Phone: 753-6341 with voice mail or 753-1543 (receptionist); Helpdesk: 815-753-8100 E-mail: lederscheid@niu.edu; Blackboard: http://webcourses.niu.edu n development. Thousand Oaks‚ CA: Sage. Wadsworth‚ B. J. (2004). Piaget ’s theory of cognitive and affective development (5th ed.). Boston‚ MA: Pearson Education‚ Inc. READINGS: Other assigned readings will be placed on Blackboard e-reserve from the NIU library. COURSE DESCRIPTION: Analysis of the major theories of chilfor
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and young people’s development A child or young person’s development can be effected by more many areas of their life such as: * Background - like the child or young person’s housing‚ family‚ culture and maybe even their families. If a child has problems at home such as mourning in the family or financial problems this may cause an impact on the child as they are worry about ‘ what will happen?’‚ this will effect that emotional and intellectual development. If the child is worrying this may
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Theories of Child Development 1. Three Major Stages in Freud’s Psychosexual Theory a. Oral Stage b. Phallic c. Genital Stage 2. Erikson’s Psychosocial Theory in association with child development a. Stages 1 and 2 b. Stages 3 and 4 3. Piaget’s Cognitive –Stage Theory a. Sensorimotor Stage b. Preoperational Stage c. Concrete Operations Stage 4. Points of Similarity a. Similarities b. Differences 5. Why is understanding child development important
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2 Research holistic development and write an account about your understanding of this‚ giving examples of how different aspects of development can affect one another. Holistic development means that each area is dependent on the other to make sure the child develops to their full potential. Development is split into different areas‚ Physical‚ social‚ emotional‚ language and intellectual. Still each area must connect in order for the child to develop. For example a child may be intellectual but
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respectful relationships? | 1. A child tells you all about their pets. | If a child wants to talk to me about their pets (or other things that affects them outside of school) I encourage them to do so whenever possible as I feel they are beginning to trust me and this might make it easier for them to come to me with more serious problems they might have. I show interest by asking them questions and listening carefully‚ I would also share my experience with pets. | 2. A child has tried really hard and
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different objects to play with. The child I observed was Alaina. Alaina is a seventeen month old Hispanic girl. She is very adorable and in my opinion‚ is much smaller than most 17 month old babies I have seen. When I first seen her‚ I thought she was the one of the youngest from the children‚ but she was actually about the same age as them. Alaina is a full term baby living in a home that includes her mom‚ dad‚ four older brothers‚ and herself. Through this report‚ I will talk about the ways in which
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Article Review Child development is a very important in today’s psychology. That is why it is not surprising that so much research has been developed on that topic. In the article "Transforming the Debate About Child Care and Maternal Employment" the author‚ Louise B. Silverstein‚ presents a very interesting point of view on the history as well as the future of psychological research on child care and influence of maternal employment on child development. The very essence of Silverstein’s argument
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