Jerome Bruner‚ Burrhus Frederic Skinner‚ Albert Bandura‚ Jean Piaget‚ Lev Vygotsky‚ Sigmund Freud‚ Abraham Maslow and John Watson. Jean Piaget born 1896 and died 1980 was a theorist who came up with a theory on children’s cognitive development. He came up with his theories as a result of working on intelligence test‚ where he noticed that children consistently gave similar wrong answers to some questions and out of interest‚ he began to wonder why this was. Jean Piaget came up with a theory that children
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the individual at the centre of the learning process; it is based on the study of the learning needs of an individual. There are a number of Humanist theorists the most prominent being‚ Malcolm Knowles and Carl Rogers. The most recognised is Abraham Maslow who developed the theory of a hierarchy of needs. The basis of this theory is that learning will occur by the educator acting as a facilitator to establish and atmosphere in which learners are comfortable to consider and further explore new ideas
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Theories of Development Piaget Psychologist Jean Piaget theory centred on the intellectual development of children. Concepts such as schemas‚ egocentrism‚ and assimilation are central to Piaget’s theory. According to Piaget‚ children progress through a series of four key stages of cognitive development. Each stage demonstrates how children understand the world. Through observations of his own children‚ Piaget developed a stage theory of intellectual development that
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encapsulate your own beliefs and experiences Approach Theorist Underlying Model Theoretical Beliefs/Assumptions Key Terms Example Humanistic Maslow Organismic/ Contextual All individuals are unique and whole‚ and strive toward the fullest development of their potential. Meta- and basic needs‚ self-actualization‚ peak experiences Behavioristic Pavlov‚ Watson Skinner Bandura Mechanistic Mechanistic/ Organismic Contextual/ Organismic Child learns through conditioning of reflexive behaviors
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Stephans‚ M M3_A1 Piaget was interested in how children think; Piaget says children learn with intelligent‚ video‚ cognitive development. He believes putting the development and learns. He believes that children learn by doing or copying as their fears. Anal stage is an important stage. B.F. skinner is a. behaviorist he believed that behavior is learned such as praising. He believes to praise for good things and not for bad behavior ignore
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down three key points for each theorist and give an example of how it is put into practice in your setting. SKINNER – Operant Conditioning 1. Skinners theory is based on the idea that learning is a function of change in overt behaviour. 2. Changes in behaviuor are the result of an individual’s response to events that occur in the environment. 3. Reinforcement is the key to Skinners theory. A reinforcer is anything that strengthens the desired response Example in Setting: All the children have
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External Factors Nutrition Having a healthy diet and getting the right nutrition is essential for the growth of children’s development years. This helps children become physically strong‚ healthy and also the brain can reach its full potential‚ eating healthy can reduce the risk of diseases and vitamin deficiencies. It is important children eat healthy fresh food and not processed foods as they have high levels of salt‚ fat and sugar and this can lead to obesity. Education Children need
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2.3 Some of the theories of development and how the frameworks to support development can influence practice: Jean Piaget (1896-1980) Jean Piaget believed that intelligence is a process that helps an organism adapt to its environment. His “Cognitive-Developmental Theory” suggested four major periods of cognitive development. Piaget’s influence created a revolution in human development theory. He proposed the existence of four major stages‚ or “periods‚” during which children and adolescents
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how did the theorist explain child development? The back page must contain the following information: -Interview a teacher of young children. Find out whether they are applying any aspect of your theory/theorist (i.e.‚ Piaget‚ Vygotsky‚ Skinner‚ Freud‚ Erikson‚ Gesell‚ Bandura‚ Maslow‚ and/or Rogers‚ etc.) in their everyday teaching or interaction with young children. Possible questions include: How are you influenced by developmental and/or learning theory (you’re your theorists)? Describe how you
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Operant Conditioning is a type of learning which is modified due to the consequences of something that happens. This learning theory is based around a theory created by Skinner. Skinner invented a chamber where he kept pigeons and rats. In order for his theory to be successful the animals had to perform simple responses‚ Skinner recorded their responses by a graph monitor‚ the details that he recorded were how many times they responded correctly. The pigeons and rats had to do certain tasks to retrieve
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