The first five years of a child’s life are the most crucial for successful development in the future. Similarly, a child’s development is based off of the five basic principles. Children development is similar for everyone yet highly individualized. All development builds on earlier learning, different areas are interrelated, and development is a continuous process throughout life. Piaget, Vygotsky, and Bandura express their opinions of childhood development through their theories, which are all alike and different in their own ways.
Piaget 's idea is primarily known as the developmental stage theory. His theory focused on growth of intelligence from infancy to adulthood. The theory is a gradual restructuring of a child’s mental processes …show more content…
Bandura’s theory of learning relies heavily on the concepts of self-efficacy, self-regulation, and modeling. Humans are active information processors and think about the relationship between their behavior and possible consequences. Observational learning could not occur unless cognitive processes were at work. For example, children observe the people around them behaving in various ways. This is illustrated during the Bobo doll experiment. Therefore, parents or caregivers will reinforce the imitated behavior with either positive reinforcement or punishment.
Overall, all three theories are fairly similar. Successful development occurs because children are active learners, and social forces set the limits for development. Also, development is at an all time peak in early developmental years, and later cognitive development will decline with older age. However on the contrary, Piaget believes children start as egocentric learners to become sociocentric, while Vygotsky believes children begin as sociocentric learners and mature to become egocentric. All three theories have greatly influenced the psychology field, postulating factors that influence development of …show more content…
Because children are extremely observant, I need to be careful the children do not mimic my negative actions for example, swearing. Furthermore, when children are around the age of 2 or 3 their minds still operate in an egocentric mindset. For example, when a child is playing with other children they may say “MINE” with a certain toys. The idea of sharing with others is extremely important and the child will benefit when he or she learns the concept in earlier stages of development. Lastly, a third change I can make is challenging a child with activities that can be solved. For example, if I challenge the child with too hard of a task they will get frustrated and let down easily. However, if I make the task challenging to the child’s ability they will be more intrigued to solve the puzzle using problem solving
Piaget 's idea is primarily known as the developmental stage theory. His theory focused on growth of intelligence from infancy to adulthood. The theory is a gradual restructuring of a child’s mental processes …show more content…
Bandura’s theory of learning relies heavily on the concepts of self-efficacy, self-regulation, and modeling. Humans are active information processors and think about the relationship between their behavior and possible consequences. Observational learning could not occur unless cognitive processes were at work. For example, children observe the people around them behaving in various ways. This is illustrated during the Bobo doll experiment. Therefore, parents or caregivers will reinforce the imitated behavior with either positive reinforcement or punishment.
Overall, all three theories are fairly similar. Successful development occurs because children are active learners, and social forces set the limits for development. Also, development is at an all time peak in early developmental years, and later cognitive development will decline with older age. However on the contrary, Piaget believes children start as egocentric learners to become sociocentric, while Vygotsky believes children begin as sociocentric learners and mature to become egocentric. All three theories have greatly influenced the psychology field, postulating factors that influence development of …show more content…
Because children are extremely observant, I need to be careful the children do not mimic my negative actions for example, swearing. Furthermore, when children are around the age of 2 or 3 their minds still operate in an egocentric mindset. For example, when a child is playing with other children they may say “MINE” with a certain toys. The idea of sharing with others is extremely important and the child will benefit when he or she learns the concept in earlier stages of development. Lastly, a third change I can make is challenging a child with activities that can be solved. For example, if I challenge the child with too hard of a task they will get frustrated and let down easily. However, if I make the task challenging to the child’s ability they will be more intrigued to solve the puzzle using problem solving