PSY 122 Child Growth and Development *Key Assessment: OBSERVATION *OF A CHILD and GROUP OF CHILDREN (This key assessment will be in 2 parts; *a total of 4 separate observation papers*) NAEYC Standards and Supportive skills: Standard 1 Promoting Child Development and Learning 1a Knowing and understanding young children’s characteristics and needs 1b Knowing and understanding the multiple influences on development and learning Standard 3 Observing‚ Documenting‚ and Assessing to
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On November 6th‚ I observed a four year-old boy at the UCI Early Childhood Education Center. My observation starts at 4:10pm‚ and it lasts for thirty minutes. At the time I did the observation‚ all of the children woke up from the nap time and started to play outside of the classroom. The playground is at least seventy-five square feet‚ and it has many play stations for children. Three classrooms share the same outside playground‚ and the age groups of those children are from three years old to five
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development. Jean Piaget was a Swiss developmental psychologist and philosopher known for his epistemological studies with children. Piaget’s theory of cognitive development has duel and complementary perspectives that are termed as constructivism and structuralism (McInerney‚ 2015). Piaget’s theories have a major impact on the model and practice of education as it has helped create a view where the focus of attention is on the idea of developmentally appropriate education. Piaget has constructed a
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for at least 2-4 minutes. But‚ most of the time Zion chooses activities and materials that he wants to participate in or use; while observing Mrs.Jade would always give him student direction with an activity but it was always his choice. Jean Piaget stage of sensorimotor is what Zion is developing through at this point because he’s acquiring
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The infant in this observations appears to be in the active proximity seeking stage because she protested when the mother left to get more food and was happy when her mother came back to the table where they were she was sitting at. Sigelman and Rider (2015) suggest that most
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According to” Piaget theory”‚ cognitive development involves a change in cognitive process and abilities. The cognitive level of these I observed was preoperational stage to operational stage. At the preoperational stage happen from age 2-7 year olds‚ in this stage‚ kids learn through pretend paly but still struggle with logic and taking other people opinion. They also often struggle with understanding the ideal of constancy. The operational stage happen from age 7-11‚ in this stage individual are
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educator’s critical thinking skills in order to maximize the children’s potential. The observation took place in the day care of children in Grossmont College. Wednesday the 25 of April‚ 2012. The children observed were 3 years of age. Jacob‚ Jason‚ kyle‚ Jordan and Jessica and few others. They were little and cute. All of them were wearing pant and colorful t-shirt. There were 3 care givers adults
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? The influence on education of Piaget?s theory of cognitive development has been enormous? Piaget showed through his studies of cognitive development in children that it is a relatively orderly process that takes place gradually. It is through Piaget?s work in cognitive development that we can come to understand the way children learn and interact with the world around them. The environment affects a child?s cognitive development‚ as they mature their Interactions with the environment changes.
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how Piaget’s and Kohlberg’s theory both suffer from the same criticism’s as they both use dilemmas with a particular criteria of a child and culture. The theory only considers a child’s beliefs not its actual behaviour. Jean Piaget was born in Switzerland. Piaget used children to assess moral development. He did this by giving the children specific games to play the most popular one being marbles. As he studied he observed the way the children applied the rules and their reasoning to change
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In this paper‚ I will be discussing the pros and cons between the two theories by Jean Piaget‚ and by Lev Vygotsky. Both Piaget and Vygotsky provided vastly significant theories which had power on the way offspring are cultivated. Yet‚ as with every theory and study‚ there are pro’s and con’s to be emphasized. I will first assess Jean Piaget’s theory‚ trailed by Lev Vygotsky. I will then relate the two with each other‚ viewing the main similarities and differences among the two. Piaget’s theory is
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