Discuss the influences on the physical‚ socio-emotional and cognitive development of a child. Consider the following in your response: Heredity‚ Culture‚ Nutrition and Parental Affection “Children are resilient”‚ this is a term that we commonly hear in regards to the changes forced on children. But in reality how resilient are they? According to Darcia Narvaez‚ “not that much”‚ how often will a teacher see a child from a broken family‚ or a child who can’t concentrate in class‚ as they have not
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normal physical development. Infancy’s physical development is much different from that of early or middle childhood. Early and middle childhood’s physical developments are different from that of early or late adolescence. During the infancy period a person can already see signs of physical development. Reflexes can be noticed as early as birth in some children. These reflexes are inherited to increase their chance of survival. In the infancy stage there is a noticeable amount of physical growth
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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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The first stage that Erikson developed was trust Vs mistrust. This stage takes place between the ages of 0-½ years. This stage’s main focus is on the infant feeling uncertain about the world that they have been born into. As a result of this uncertainty‚ the infant expects to receive care from their parents. If they do receive enough care and their needs are met then they learn to trust their care giver and the rest of the people that are around them. However‚ if the child’s needs do not be met by
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able to understand speech (speech perception). The examination of the mental lexicon‚ (that is our ’mental dictionary’) also widens our knowledge in connection with speech production and speech perception. Psycholinguistics also covers the issues of child language‚ that is how babies acquire their mother tongue. A marginal area of study is bilingualism‚ which deals with those individuals and communities that speak two (or more) languages. Neurolinguistics focuses on cerebral processes during speech
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2014 Resourse File #1 Article on physical development In the first three years of the child‚ they accomplish many milestone that are the bases for a later growth. Children during infancy establish trust in their world and they find independence in their toddlerhood. Adults are an important figure on the physical development of the children during the first months. Parents or caregivers need to provide to children the opportunity to promote their development during these stages in order to create
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1. You are asked to select a reading book for a three year old. Describe the features you would want within the book in order to foster a child’s intellectual ability‚ such as colour recognition and shape recognition? For this assignment is my chosen book is: Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell. In my opinion this book contains lots of things that a three-years old needs to develop intellectually. Children at this age‚ learns quickly through exploring. They use all of their senses to discover new things
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Piaget’s theory of cognitive development is a theory used to analyze and understand human development and behavior. His theory is broken up into four stages: Sensorimotor‚ which lasts from 0 to 2 years of age‚ Preoperational‚ which lasts from 2 to 7 years of age‚ Concrete Operational‚ which lasts from 7 to 11 years of age‚ and lastly‚ Formal Operational‚ which the child enters at 11 years of age and stays in throughout adulthood (Santrock‚ 2010‚ p.24). Piaget’s theory of cognitive development is important
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lab‚ he studied the way that children reasoned. After two years of working with children‚ Piaget finally realised what he wanted to investigate – children’s development! He noticed that children of a younger aged answered questions qualitatively different than those of an older age. This suggested to him that younger children were not less knowledgeable‚ but gave different answers because they thought differently. He spent over 10 years perfecting his theory‚ and it is widely acknowledged as one
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symptoms will unfold. The danger here is the temptation of predictability when presented with similar conflicts and symptoms as other children. Therefore‚ the counsellor needs to be alert on how to best assist the child in identifying the conflicts that have disturbed their development. His role is also to teach them how to use healthier defence mechanisms (Delgado‚
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