Relational Child Development

According to Paige (1977), this stage is the second preoperational stage of cognitive development in child’s life in which the child cannot use logic or transform, separate ideas or combine things. As I go through each developmental stages, I don’t remember a lot of this thing, however, based on what my mom has shared with me, by the age around two, despite the fact that I was not much talkative, whereas according to Paige, language development is one of the hallmarks of this period, I rather was determined, I learned quickly to dress up by myself. At this stage, children don’t have a logic understanding. As the above photo shows (wearing my moms’ shoes) did not understand that shoes it was not my size. Probably I slowly was adapting the idea …show more content…
Although I still was at the preoperational stage, slowly entered to the concrete operational stage, as I was somewhat able to understand the reason of moving to another location. My world was expanding; I began making friends and connected with more adults, relatives beyond my immediate family. While I was not too talkative finally I become more and more chatty, yet was an observer, I was curious about things and started making connections between new locations and family. Based on the social learning theory, it is a critical time in this stage of development in which parents play a central role. Bandura noted that external, environmental reinforcement was not the only factor to influence learning and behavior. As I was exposed to a different environment and culture, not to mention we spoke another language, too, among us, we adapted fairly well the new environment, a location that gave us a sense of accomplishment. We learned from our own trial and error, watched other people. According to Bandura (1980), when the behavior makes sense, we go through it in our minds then try it for ourselves. When we succeed, we become more