My name is Brenda Irazaba and this is my third year at COC.My major is child development my goal is to become a preschool teacher. My goal is to graduate at COC and transfer to Csun by next year. Some of the things I enjoy outside of class is going on hikes to different trails, I also like to go to the beach I could live at the beach.…
Olivia Hoekstra is a sophomore attending Seabury Hall. Hoekstra was born in Southern California and moved to Maui at age two. She attended Seabury for middle school. At school she has been on student council every year she has been at Seabury. With being the middle school president and member of the upper school student council.…
Caitlin Stolarczyk is this year's only 8th grader. In volleyball senority plays a big role, as an 8th grader it's Caitlin's responibility to lead the team. Caitlin said, "Being the only 8th grader is hard, but also fun. Teaching the 6th graders was difficult because we have to help them to do things right and learn about what it means to be on a team. The fun part was getting to spend so much time with my…
Anna Sokolow was born February 9, 1910 in Hartford Connecticut. Sadly she passed away not too long ago on March 29, 2000. In New York City. Anyways, Anna was an American choreographer and professional dancer. Ever since Anna was a young girl she's always desired dancing.…
Piaget believes that children vigorously obtain information and adapt it to their prior knowledge and notions about the world they know. Therefore, children create their comprehension of actuality from their individual experiences. Piaget separated intellectual development into four separate periods that investigative the changes in child’s cognitive make up. The first stage is Sensorimotor where a child develops coordination of their senses with motor response and occurs within the first two years of life. Between the ages of two through seven the Precoperational stage takes place and children develop symbolic thinking, how to accurately use syntax, and fully use grammar to communicate complete ideas.…
My name is Yesenia Lorta. I am going for my associates degree in Nursing which does not require this class however, I do want to get my bachelor's degree one day so here I am. I live in Killeen,TX. I have never lived in any other state. I have lived in many cities here in Texas but have never left the state.…
My name is Hannah Atakorah. I am originally from West African country of Ghana. I’m a single mother with four children, aged 14, 12, 10, and 7. I graduated from nursing school at Columbus State University in May, 2013 with a BSN degree. I have been working at Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center since.…
Cognition For every limitation of the pre-operational child, there is a corresponding strength of the concrete-operational child (Sigelman and Rider, 2015). Pre-school age children end to view things from their own point-of-view, whereas children in later elementary ages tend to realize others have a point-of-view of their own as…
I was very intrigued with the TED videos that were assigned to this paper. I am always interested in learning more about how children at such a young age develop everything that is essential for when we age in adulthood. In the first video “What Do Babies Think?” The first experiment included babies that were the age of fifteen to eighteen months. I was amazed to find there was a significant amount of difference between a fifteen-month and an eighteen-month baby and how their brain processes information.…
The thinking patterns of a three-year-old preschooler vary drastically from the thinking patterns of a nine-year-old student. This comes to no surprise if you follow Piaget’s stages of cognitive thinking, it becomes obvious as to why there would be such an apparent difference between the two thinking styles. What is Piaget’s theory of cognitive development? Well, Piaget believed, based on observations that children tend to form mental concepts, or schemes, as they experience new situations. Piaget also believed that children then tried to understand the unknown in a process known as assimilation.…
Vygotsky (1962) argued that “to interpret the sinking coefficient of egocentric speech as an indication that this kind of speech is dying out is like saying that the child stops counting when he ceases to use his fingers and starts adding in his head.” (p.135). Discuss and evaluate this proposal using research evidence to support your arguments. (1694)…
People have been studying the development of children for centuries. Their research has helped future generations understand how students learn, behave and their characteristics. There have been many theorists, but four of the most well known are Lev Vygotsky, Jean Piaget, Sigmund Freud, and Erik Erikson. Each one of these theorists has informed practice and the understanding of young children 's characteristics and needs. The understanding of each theorist “helps us to look at the facts from different perspectives” ().…
Essay synopsis Essay question: Jean Piaget proposed a step-wise sequence of mental development during childhood. Provide an overview of Piaget’s core ideas, discussing evidence for and against these ideas. Jean Piaget (1869-1980) started to investigate children’s development after two years of working with children in Binet’s lab (Eddy, 2010).He found that children of younger aged gave different answers than those of alder age not because they have less knowledge but because they thought differently. He describes development as sequence of stages and each of these stages represents different type of thinking occurs in variable ages in different background (Vidal, 2000)…
The cognitive connectionism theory can be used to describe Amanda’s language development. In this theory “language is learned, not innate. It relies on generic cognitive information-processing and pattern-recognition mechanisms” (Wolf-Nelson, 2010, p.61). In this theory children use cognitive abilities such as attention, perception, working memory and retrieval to receive information form their environment and construct language competence by using information processes and language. In this theory neuronal functions are part of a network, which perform parallel distributed processing (PDP), in which information is perceived and attended to.…
Jean Piaget developed a theory that children’s thought processes differ from adults. He proved this theory through detailed observations of the development of infants and children. This theory differed from others because it proposed discrete stages of maturation. These stages that Piaget emphasizes demonstrates that there are major differences between the mind of a 3-year-old and of a 9-year-old.…