Assignment 1 – Know the main stages of child and young person development Throughout the early years‚ children will grow and change. Piaget was a major theorist psychologist who developed stages to understand cognitive development. When we talk about normal development‚ we are talking about developing skills like: Gross motor: using large groups of muscles to sit‚ stand‚ walk‚ run‚ etc.‚ keeping balance‚ and changing positions. Fine motor: using hands to be able to eat‚ draw‚ dress‚ play
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Ten Principles and Brain Development At birth there are about 100 billion brain cells produced and they are beginning to connect with each other. At the first week of age‚ brain development starts with conception. It is important to reach the age of an infant and practice the ten principals. In the early years‚ young brains produce almost twice as many synapses as they will need. By age two‚ the number of synapses a toddler has is similar to that of an adult. By three the child has twice as
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Three Important Events in the History of Aviation Development December 17th‚ 1903 at 10:35 am marked the beginning of aviation as we now know it. The Wright brothers launched the Wright Flyer into the air near Kitty Hawk‚ North Carolina with Wilbur Wright at the controls. The aircraft stayed airborne for twelve seconds and covered a distance of one hundred and twenty feet. This was the culmination of many years of hard work and research to achieve these results. The Wright brothers had overcome
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Chapter 14 DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVE While enunciating a development perspective for Punjab‚ an essential prerequisite is to spell out a vision for the state – the kind of economy‚ society‚ polity‚ ecology and ideology envisaged for it‚ over a given period of time. This style of dealing with the issue is strikingly different from the usual style wherein the future agenda is set in the light of the evolving scene‚ particularly with reference to problems that have emerged on the way. The intention
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from around them‚ using the data to develop perception and thinking skills. Cognitive development refers to how a person perceives‚ thinks‚ and gains understanding of his or her world through the interaction of genetic and learned factors. Among the areas of cognitive development are information processing‚ intelligence ‚ reasoning‚ language development ‚ and memory. Historically‚ the cognitive development of children has been studied in a variety of ways. The oldest is through intelligence tests
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Prenatal Development References: Santrock (2009). Child Development Berk (2008). Infants‚ Children‚ and Adolescents Pregnancy Signs and Symptoms • • • • • • • • • Spotting or Implantation bleeding Delay in menstruation Swollen/tender breasts Fatigue/tiredness Nausea/Morning sickness Backaches and headaches Frequent Urination Darkening of Areolas Food craving or food aversion The Course of Prenatal Development • Divided into 3 periods: The Germinal Period The Embryonic Period The Fetal
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Four Planes of Development "We know how to find pearls in the shells of oysters‚ gold in the mountains‚ and coal in the bowels of the earth‚ but we are unaware of the spiritual gems‚ the creative nebulae‚ that the child hides in himself when he enters this world to renew mankind." The Absorbent Mind‚ Maria Montessori Maria Montessori’s Four Planes of Education was a lecture given by her in 1938 at the Seventh International Montessori Congress. The four planes (or phases) of
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paper we will be exploring and discussing human development. We will explain the life span perspective of development as well as summarize two theories of lifespan development. Lastly we will explain how heredity and the environment interact to produce individual differences in development. Life Span Perspective of Development Set forth by Margret Baltes‚ Paul Baltes and their associates‚ the life span perspective is the viewing of human development as multi directional‚ multi cultural‚ multi contextual
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What is child development? Why study child development? Child development involves the scientific study of changes in the child’s biological‚ social‚ cognitive and emotional behaviour across the span of childhood. Every child’s development is unique and complex. Although children develop through a generally predictable sequence of steps and milestones‚ they may not proceed through these steps in the same way or at the same time. Psychologists and development researchers have proposed a number of
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endeavour to be sensitive and responsive to all of a child’s needs and developing abilities are closely inter-connected and very much intertwined with the needs and circumstances of each child’s family. In addition‚ all aspects of a child’s welfare and development are viewed as part of a co-ordinated system and are seen as growing alongside‚ influencing and interacting with each other. What does Early Childhood Studies actually involve? In summary‚ Early Childhood Studies involves a study of the child within
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