Jean Piaget, a cognitive developmental theorist, trusted that individuals change their ways of viewing the world gradually as they grow. His thought was that all encounters and lessons are …show more content…
It basically declares that human growth occurs throughout someone 's entire lifespan. He believed that each stage of development discussed in his theory was centered around overcoming a problem. For example, in Erikson’s theory talks about Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt and in the movie, Mari, the baby from japan demonstrated a good example of how babies generally try their best to solve their problems, even if they end up feeling ashamed of themselves, or doubting their abilities. In the movie, Mari was in her room playing with some of her toys, which included a stick and a donut shaped toy, her goal in this situation was to put the toy stick through the donut-shaped toy, but she was not able to accomplish this. Due to her inability to accomplish this task, she threw the toys, rolled over, and started crying. This is a great example of Erikson’s psychosocial theory due to her feeling ashamed of her inability to put the toy stick in the other toy, it further portrays how human growth is something that definitely does occur throughout our lifespan due to us continuously learning from our …show more content…
This theory was basically the observation that people learned more efficiently by observing other people 's behaviors. “Most human behavior is learned through observationally modeling from observing others”, this clearly mean that a child will learn how to perform certain tasks by watching their mother or siblings perform the same exact task. For example, the child shown in the babies movie who lives in Namibia, named Ponijao is shown in the beginning of the movie sitting next to his brother hitting a rock against another rock. This may seem like any easy task to accomplish but for a baby it isn 't seen as ‘common sense’ or a common action, it is simply the act of them mimicking and trying to do exactly what their sibling is doing, by observing. Which is what Bandura was trying to prove his theory, that children are able to learn better by observing others close to them such as friends and family. That is why kids in school typically in elementary school tend to get in trouble because they try doing the same ‘bad’ things as the bad kid in the class. They are habits learned by