Over the past week there has been a lot of new material that I’ve had to learn. While it may have been a hard a times, the information we have learned is very important. In the Taking Sides book, I learned about the controversial issue on institutional childcare. Greg Parks believes yes, institutional childcare is good for children. The research he used to back up his claim was, The High/Scope Perry Preschool Project. In this project they used 123 high-risk African-American children. Of those 123 kids, 58 of them were put into a group that went to preschool 2.5 hours a day for 2 years, while the other 65 kids were in the control group that did not attend preschool. After many years of watching to see how the kids grew up they found out that:
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The thing that stood out to me most in this chapter was all of the different theories and theorists. Before reading this I didn’t realize how many different types of theories there are and how different theorists could view them differently. Both Freud and Erikson believed in the psychoanalytical based theories, which focuses on personality formation, which is composed of the id, ego, and superego. Piaget, Vygotsky, and Siegler all believed in the cognitive theories, which focuses on the way children think. Pavlov, Watson, Skinner, and Bandura all believed in learning theories, which focuses on how experiences affect behavior. Pavlov is the most recognizable because of finding of classical conditioning. He was able to get his dog to salivate by the sound of a bell because he conditioned his dog to associate the sound of the bell with food. Lorenz and Bowlby believed in ethological theories, which focused on biology and early experiences during specific periods. Finally there was Bronfenbrenner, Gottieb, Lerner, and Sameroff who believed in system theories, which focused on the interaction between environmental and biological systems. Overall there were a lot of different theories that brought a new idea to the …show more content…
Cells and DNA are what make up our bodies and perform important functions that make us who we are. Our DNA is made up of 46 chromosomes, 23 pairs. Our heredity is determined by those chromosomes, which give us our traits that are passed down from our parents. There are two types of traits, recessive and dominant. There are many ways our genes and environment interact. Some believe that it is our genes/heredity that determines who we are more than our environment; others feel it’s the environment that determines who we are rather than our genes. Our nervous system is what controls our thinking and feeling. The basic components of the nervous system contain the spinal cord and the brain. The brain is made up of neurons, which communicate through synapses sending messages to different parts of the body. Normal child development depends on good health, which depends on the environment in which a child is living
The thing that stood out to me most in this chapter was all of the different theories and theorists. Before reading this I didn’t realize how many different types of theories there are and how different theorists could view them differently. Both Freud and Erikson believed in the psychoanalytical based theories, which focuses on personality formation, which is composed of the id, ego, and superego. Piaget, Vygotsky, and Siegler all believed in the cognitive theories, which focuses on the way children think. Pavlov, Watson, Skinner, and Bandura all believed in learning theories, which focuses on how experiences affect behavior. Pavlov is the most recognizable because of finding of classical conditioning. He was able to get his dog to salivate by the sound of a bell because he conditioned his dog to associate the sound of the bell with food. Lorenz and Bowlby believed in ethological theories, which focused on biology and early experiences during specific periods. Finally there was Bronfenbrenner, Gottieb, Lerner, and Sameroff who believed in system theories, which focused on the interaction between environmental and biological systems. Overall there were a lot of different theories that brought a new idea to the …show more content…
Cells and DNA are what make up our bodies and perform important functions that make us who we are. Our DNA is made up of 46 chromosomes, 23 pairs. Our heredity is determined by those chromosomes, which give us our traits that are passed down from our parents. There are two types of traits, recessive and dominant. There are many ways our genes and environment interact. Some believe that it is our genes/heredity that determines who we are more than our environment; others feel it’s the environment that determines who we are rather than our genes. Our nervous system is what controls our thinking and feeling. The basic components of the nervous system contain the spinal cord and the brain. The brain is made up of neurons, which communicate through synapses sending messages to different parts of the body. Normal child development depends on good health, which depends on the environment in which a child is living