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Role Models Robert K. Merton is the sociologist who coined the term, “role model”. Merton focused his work on social Through Merton’s research and studies on social groups, Merton discovered that people tend to set the behavior, instead of individuals setting the behavior. A role model is someone who sets the example and appropriate behavior in situations. Psychologically, role model are important to the development of the youth. The knowledge of the role model guide the youth to a successful…

Jean Piaget, in my opinion, was one of the most influential developmental psychologist in psychology. In his early theories, Piaget used his three children to develop his ideas. Piaget divided the cognitive development of children into four different stages. He saw children as being little scientist and explorers trying to understand the world around them. Over the course of a child’s life until adulthood they go through the four stages; sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and…

Introduction Jean Piaget theorized a model for Cognitive development. Before examining and describing my experiences from observing a class from Beverley Hills girls, a brief understanding of Jean Piaget?s theory on cognitive development must be made. Simply put, Piaget theorizes that children are prevented in learning certain concepts relative to their development stage (Woolfolk & Margetts, 2016, p. 80). Piaget argues that thought processes change over time, depending on certain factors and…

However, the notion of stages in development is not unique to Piaget. A great deal of representations of development use stages to unify significant times in one’s life to reflect upon. The psychologists that used these models were Gesell, Freud and Erikson. Piaget differed in a sense that the notion of the stages is closely related to the concept of structural change and distinguished them in eight characteristics. The first characteristic states that “the organism begins…

Motivation Growing up if Rachel wanted something she had to prove to her parents that she was responsible enough to have it. For example, before Rachel could get the iphone, her parents gave her a less expensive phone to have for a couple years. She had to show them that she was responsible. She did that by taking care of the cheaper phone…ie not losing or breaking it.Once that happened she was allowed to eventually get the iphone. Her motivation for taking care of the cheaper phone was to show…

As a child, my parents taught me my native language, Spanish, by reading books to me any chance they had. At the age of 8, when I had the opportunity I would bring home a variety of books from school eager to read them and learn new words. I spent a great amount of time reading that I eventually decided to move into short novels. This helped me improve so much that I never had trouble speaking Spanish. I specifically remember in our small class of 15 students, me speaking Spanish more fluently…

One might say that the cognitive development theory is very crucial in day to day life. Everywhere one looks there is a use of cognitive development in the child development facilities, whether it be a private facility, or a state facility cognitive development is in practice. However, before getting to far one might ask what the cognitive development is and it is “changes in problem solving, memory, language, reasoning, and other aspects of thinking” (Woolfolk, Perry, n.d, p.G-2). The cognitive…

sensorimotor focused on birth until 2 years old is basically the motor skills along with sensory organs infants develop during the first years of life. In this stage, the child should have motor schemas, sensory info, and imitation thoughts while learning object permanence and language skills. The second stage is preoperations thoughts develop in 2 to 7 years…

substages: simple reflexes, first habits and primary circular reactions, secondary circular reactions, coordination of secondary circular reactions, tertiary circular reactions, novelty, and curiosity, and internalization of schemes. Object permanence is the understanding that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be seen or heard. This is demonstrated in the game of “peek-a-boo”. The child knows that you are still there even if you are covering your face with your hands. The…

This essay discusses the four grand theories of development. A theory is an attempt to organise a lot of different facts and give an overall explanation of something. The four Grand Theories of child development is Behaviourism, Social learning theory, Piaget’s cognitive-developmental theory and Vygotsky’s social-cognitive theory. It is important to examine these theories because it has a huge influence on how we think about children, how we interact with children and the way we view children.…