Jimena Renteria
Liberty University
Introduction
This essay will demonstrate the relation between different theories and distinct 5-year-oldl’s behavior in a natural in her setting. One theory that will be explain in the Piagetian approach, which addresses the cognitive progress during the sensorimotor stage of a child. The sensorimotor stage occurs when children start learning about their surrounding through different motor activities and their sense experiences During the preoperational stage the child begins to comprehend the symbolic function of language, object spaces, causality, and categorization (Martorell, Papalia, Feldman, 2014). In addition, other psychological approaches will be related with the following observations, like Bandura’s beliefs in gender development and Vygotsky’s point of view in intelligence.
Child’s Background
The child comes from a united family where both parents work full time …show more content…
She claimed for help and a scaffolding was developed. Vygotsky approach of scaffolding is “the supportive assistance that a more sophisticated interaction partner provides, and ideally it should be aimed at the ZPD” (Martorell, Papalia, & Feldman, p.290, 2014). ZPD is when children receive help when they cannot do something by themselves (Martorell, Papalia, & Feldman, 2014).
Christian Worldview
Human beings’ life-spans are a continuous cognitive and physical development. Ecclesiastes 3:1 emphasizes how God has designed everything for a special time. Everything life’s stage has its own changes and people differently grow in each aspect of their lives. Throughout the different theories of distinct psychologists like Freud or Erickson, who believes in that people experience different stages during their life-spans, the bible says that each of this stages were designed by God. God planned every season and He knows what changes each of them contains.