The area of development I have chosen is physical development. A definition of physical development -This is the time when the body develops its performance‚ having complete control over the body. A child will expand in itself physical performances in both age ranges from birth to three years and from three to seven years. This development is divided into two fundamental sections; Gross motor along with Fine motor . Gross motor are the greater movements that obligate good muscle development plus
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Consider applications to education (16 marks) AO2 Piaget believed in the progress of a child’s cognitive development through schooling and has an individualist approach in the way in which the child is an active participant and is responsible for their own learning. According to Piaget‚ cognitive development occurs as the result of maturation. You cannot teach a child certain activities before they are biologically ready‚ for example trying to reach a pre-operationalized child to perform abstract
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child thinks about the world‚ and there are educational recommendations for each stage. In the concrete operational stage for example‚ learning activities may include solving problems or attention tasks and be given concrete materials to manipulate. Piaget believed that discovery learning environments were an important part of development. Activities should encourage assimilation and accommodation‚ so the children can discover knowledge for themselves‚ instead of it being delivered to them. Rather than
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Cited: Cherry‚ K. (2012‚ January 10). About.com. Retrieved from http://psychology.about.com/od/piagetstheory/a/keyconcepts.htm Cherry‚ K. (2012‚ June 18). Piaget. Retrieved from http://psychology.about.com/od/behavioralpsychology/l/bl-piaget-stages.htm Christina‚ G. (1999‚ May 10). Muskingumedu. Retrieved from http://www.muskingum.edu/~psych/psycweb/history/vygotsky.htm McDevitt‚ T. M.‚ & Ormond‚ J. (2009). Cognitive development. Prentice Hall
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Equibration is a mechanism that Piaget proposed to explain how children shift from one stage of thought to the next. The shift occurs as children experience cognitive conflict‚ or disequilibrium‚ in trying to understand the world. Eventually‚ they resolve the conflict and reach a balance
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Compare and evaluate three significant learning and development theories In this assignment I will compare and evaluate three significant learning theories‚ these being; Behaviourism‚ Constructivism and Social Constructivism. This will include a clear presentation of; knowledge of these theories‚ a demonstration of the understanding of academic debates pertaining to these theories and by selecting three key aspects of these three theories‚ comparing and evaluating them. The three key aspects that
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development Piaget’s theory of cognitive development is a comprehensive theory about the nature and development of human intelligence‚ first developed by Jean Piaget. It is primarily known as a developmental stage theory‚ but in fact‚ it deals with the nature of knowledge itself and how humans come gradually to acquire‚ construct‚ and use it. To Piaget‚ cognitive development was a progressive reorganization of mental processes as a result of biological maturation and environmental experience. Children construct
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When the Sandinistas’ first started to rise to power‚ those opposing begun to engage in violent actions. The United States is backing this opposing group by supplying them with weapons and other necessities for this fight. Currently in Nicaragua‚ these same anti-communist groups have begun to flee in efforts to escape the rule of the Sadanista’s. It is rumored that the groups are forming what are known as guerilla units. Guerilla warfare is fought in “fast-moving‚ small-scale actions.” The rebels
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The concept of normative development is a complex and much debated one. It is an issue that is continually researched by scientists and psychologists alike as they seek to understand the changing processes that shape development over the human lifespan. One of the fundamental questions that underlie this research is whether normative development actually exists. The volume of statistical data on normative development is constantly changing and growing adding greater complexity of the issue. Normative
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words was the release of the’ full whole nature of man’. However the Renaissance biggest contribution was the way different important individuals through their logical revelations managed to diminish the power of the Catholic Church. (Craig‚ Graham‚ Kagan‚ Ozment‚ Turner‚ Medieval Europe before the Renaissance had been a fragmented feudal society with an agriculturally based economy‚ and its culture and dominated by the Church. After the fourteenth century characterised by the growing national consciousness
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