the same abilities. So they can be taught anything no matter how clever or impaired that person. His theory ignored social and emotional factors of learning and development‚ he believed that learning could take part as a type of training. Maslow ; Abraham Maslow was a humanist who believed that individual person have certain needs that must fulfilled in order for progression to take place. His hierarchy of needs pyramid is a well know of his theory‚ it shows the most needed at the bottom of the pyramid
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development Task 2 theorists‚ Cache Level 3 CYP 3.1 pc[2.1] Explain how children and young people’s development is influenced by a range of personal factors. A child is influenced by a range of Personal factors such as: - Influences before and at birth eg. Maternal diet during pregnancy or birth itself eg. problems due to lack of oxygen etc. - Health - child who has ill health may spend time in hospital and miss time from pre-school and school affecting their learning on all levels including
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provided by the behaviourist experimental technique has been was very important to the discipline of psychology‚ and many of the theories have stood up to the test of time. Behaviourist psychologists such as were Ivan Pavlov‚ John Watson and B.F. Skinner. They used techniques such as conditioning (classical conditioning and operand conditioning) to explore the
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Development in Psychology Childhood and Adolescent Development Watching children grow is one of life ’s biggest joys‚ especially when the children are yours ans you can take certain notices of the milestones that occur from a personal perspective. But one thing people don ’t often acknowledge are the deep‚ inter-workings that actually occur during development‚ such as the psychological processes that take place. In obvious developmental stages such
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Cognitive * Psychoanalytical * Humanist * Social Learning * Operant Conditioning * Behaviourist * Social pedagogy Jean Piaget (1896 – 1980) Piaget focuses on cognitive development; he was all about the child centred approach‚ he believed children are active learners and make sense of the world through their own experiences. Piaget believed that a child develops through a series of pre-determined stages to adulthood and said that a child needs to be at a specific stage of
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current practices. There have been many theories on how children develop and learn‚ some of the theorists who influence the educators of today on how to best teach children. Jean Piaget Cognitive Piaget studied the thinking and logic of children and he believed that children had different logic to adults. Piaget started his theory by observing and studying his own children and concluded that children learn and build their ideas on what they see and experience‚ not by what they are taught. The
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http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/earlycld/ea7lk18.htm Hall‚ R. H. (2001). Behaviorist Theory. Retrieved August 11‚ 2008 from http://medialab.mst.edu/rhall/educational_psychology/2001/vl1b/behavior_new.html Huitt‚ W.‚ & Hummel‚ J. (2003). Piaget ’s theory of cognitive development. Educational Psychology Interactive. Valdosta‚ GA: Valdosta State University. Retrieved August 11‚ 2008 from http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/col/cogsys/piaget.html Pearson Education‚ Inc.‚ publishing as Pearson
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Lisa Hicklin Unit 331 2.3 Explain how theories of development and framework to support development influence current practice. In this work I will refer to the main group of psychologists that are associated with child development and their consequent impact on the way we care for and teach our children. It is clearly a vast subject‚ but I hope to identify the most important theories and show how they are implemented in order to provide each child with the greatest chance of reaching their potential
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There are many different theories on how people learn and over the years learning theories have dramatically changed. They have been superseded by newer theories based on psychological‚ social‚ cultural development factors‚ (Fritscher‚ 2011).In this paper I will be concentrating on five theories‚ three psychological and two social‚ they are; Behaviourism‚ Humanism‚ Constructivism‚ Lave and Wenger Communities of Practice‚ and Vygotsky’s learning theory. I have chosen these theories because I believe
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Development Theorist: Jean Piaget: lived from 1896-1980. He was a biologist who grew up in Europe. That fact that he was an only child could be the reason that his theory emphasizes children as individuals who are active learners trying to solve problems and experiment. Piaget moved onto the study of understanding children’s development through observing them‚ talking and listening to children while the carried out activities and exercises he set out for them. Piaget’s main insight was the role
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