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While learning different concepts and theories regarding the the field of child development there Piaget’s cognitive - developmental theory and Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory are to theories that we can’t deny have a huge impact on the field of child development. With that being said we will get into both their similarities and differences in specific aspects such as whether development within humans is continuous or discrete etc. But first we will discuss the overall theories of each, we…

At birth and up to 3 months old, an infant uses different sounds of crying as a method of communicating their needs and wants to the caregiver. These differentiated sounds can indicate pain, hunger, or tiredness. As they cry, the caregiver will provide them with food, comfort, or the companionship they are seeking (NIDCD, 2010). Typically, a crying infant will calm down when they are upset if they recognize the voice of the caregiver or mother (icommunicate, n.d.). Babies at this age actively…

Tyler Robertson Social Development in Infancy: Roles of Temperament and Attachment Temperament represents a set of inherent qualities of an individual that affect the organization of his or her behavior. Most experts agree that temperament has a biological basis justified by factors such as genetic influences, but they disagree on temperament’s strict definition or what are its basic dimensions. However, one of the most prominent methods for measuring temperament based on Mary Rothbart’s three…

Executive function refers to the cognitive systems that control and manage other cognitive processes. Executive functions help people to manage their life tasks; some of these processes let children to be organized and keep track of things physically and mentally. Working memory helps children to keep information in their mind. Decision making helps them to think before they act. Also Executive function helps them in attention, focus and other more tasks. According to David Zelazo Executive…

As children develop, certain milestones are developed. Based on Jean Piaget these milestones are called stages. In Piaget theory, there are four stages; Sensorimotor Stage, Preoperational Stage, Concrete Operational Stage and the Formal Operational Stage. The children involved in the Zoo study would be in the Preoperational and the Concrete Operational stage; recognizing children does not always meet each stage at the same time. Piaget Theory explains that children will gravitate to what…

Piaget, a man of the high regard in the developmental word. He devoted his life to studying how children grow and develop. In what stages different habits and traits are expressed and what to call these stages. Piaget’s theory is that a child develops by learning through their environment, and once they meet the max of one stage they directly move to the next. To test these (however biased the test were) he came up with a series of experiments to show. I ran these test and here are my findings.…

Infancy, “early childhood,” and “a beginning or early period of existence,” a time of vivid transformation in the physical body and cognitive mind, including that of emotional attachment and one’s first social interactions (Infancy). A period of the origins of life which babyhood and toddlerhood unfold from a child’s birth through two years (Berk, 2010, p. 6). As a scholar in the field of human development, researching a subject and evaluating an authentic encounter with the said subject are two…

The preschool child I had observed was Joel . Joel has straight short brown hair with blue eyes and bushy dark eye brows. He is shorter than most of his classmates and slightly chubby .Joel has a small button nose, full cheeks, a full set of teeth inside his mouth, and dark tan skin. TH Preschool of choice is Chino hills Christian preschool. The abilities of Joel comparing to his other classmates is that Joel is very energetic and likes to use his hands to piece puzzles together. When…

development. Childhood development is the growth of a human from birth to 17 years old. Several psychologists research the process of childhood and conclude their own ideas on the subject. Jean Piaget, Eric Erickson, and Lawrence Kohlberg are three psychologists who had similar and different views on children's advancement. Jean Piaget was a psychologist who concluded that people developed by connecting to life with actions. He went into more detail about his theory by having steps. There are…

According to Piaget, a child’s mind develops throughout the course of four stages in their earlier years of life. Piaget believed that children establish their understandings of the world by actually experiencing it. He also believed that nature and nurture were both valuable factors in a child’s cognitive growth, but he presumed that it happened in different stages rather than a continuous progression of growth. Piaget separated cognitive development into four stages. The first stage, from…