Development

For my project, I picked Jean Piaget’s cognitive development theory. He was a Swiss Scientist and he did a study on the thinking process of children, which was popularly known as clinical method. His study was based on the schemas. According to Piaget, in order to constantly adapt to our environment, human mind organise its way to understand the situation and current changes (Theories of development, 43). Moreover, schema is a cognitive framework that place a concept into categories and…

Physical development includes physical growth and body development. I don’t remember much of my early physical development, though my parents did have me start taking piano at a young age, (I was five or six) which helped me develop my motor skills effectively. Adolescence also includes much physical development, which was definitely an awkward time for me with such incredibly varied changes taking place. Additionally, I take comfort in that my brain is still developing into my early adult years…

the way children think is fundamentally different from the way that adults think.” “Piaget was the first psychologist to make a systematics study of cognitive development” (McLeod, 2015). But, what is cognitive development? According to (Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 2017), “cognitive development refers to the development of the ability to think and reason.” Piaget defined cognitive…

Cognitive Development In this tutorial we leaned about three experiments that were conducted by Jean Piaget focusing on cognitive development. I learned various things from the views of Piaget, terms and the different stages of intellectual growth. Piaget made an observation of how children's thinking adapt to their environment as they get older. Meaning that the children learn in a form of adaptation. People organize metal thoughts to understand the way the world works. Piaget called it a…

Piaget's theory of cognitive development Jean Piaget was a Swiss scholar who argued that children are not little adults. Also, he believed that everyone is born with a natural tendency to organize the world meaningful by constructing mental models of the world called schemata. Schemata are mental models of the world that we use to guide and interpret our experiences (Nairne, 2014) Piaget’s primary contributions was to demonstrate that children’s reasoning errors can provide a window into how…

Erik Erikson came up with each stage of life that has its own psychological development task which is a crisis that needs resolution. There are eight stages of psychological development beginning at infancy (to one year) through late adulthood (late 60s and up). He states that infants develop trust when their needs are met, toddlers learn to be independent, preschoolers learn to do tasks, elementary school children learn the pleasure of applying themselves to tasks, adolescence teens learn to…

CC psychologically is where she shows her developmental stage the most. She is currently transitioning into adulthood. CC has a Context. Ethnicity is not something that is especially practiced in this household. With roots coming from Norway, Mexico, Germany, and Italy there are many practices that could be incorporated but there are no strong ties. After supper every night, with her desert, SC has a cup of coffee and she states that is because of her Norwegian roots. JC enjoys spicy food…

are unique in their stages of development. The first stage of an infant's development according to Erik Erikson is trust versus mistrust. Erikson’s first level of development is the most important period that occurs from birth to 18 months old. Depending on the infant's environment and caregivers will be the contributing factors to the first stage. There are various components for reason that the infant will develop trust or mistrust in the caregivers. The development of trust depends on the…

Conclusion Psychologists formed several theories about childhood development. Each one took a different perspective on developmental stages and provided guidelines to assess a child’s developmental level compared to their age group. Bandura’s theory focused on observation and imitation of behaviors (Crain, 2011). Erikson’s theory expanded on Freud’s psychoanalytic theory and provided details of development that surpassed just satisfying physical desires (Crain, 2011). Piaget’s theory focused…

the virtue in this stage is purpose. The fourth stage in Erikson’s Psychosocial development - Industry vs. Inferiority which happens around the school age years. In this stage the basic virtue is competency. The fifth stage - Identity vs. Identity Confusion this stage occurs during the adolescence years and the basic virtue of this is fidelity. Intimacy vs. Isolation is the sixth stage of the psychosocial development. This stage occurs in young adulthood. The basic virtue of this stage is love.…