Jean-Baptiste Grenouille

1) Using Piaget's Cognitive Development theory, why do 5-year-olds think like Miriam? Analyze Miriam's thought process as related to Cognitive Developmental concepts (30 pts). Piaget's cognitive theory states that, "Thoughts and expectations profoundly affect attitudes, beliefs, values, assumptions, and actions" (The Developing Person, pg. 47). In Piaget's theory, two to six-year-old's think symbolically, with language, yet children are very egocentric and can only perceive things from their…

Introduction My child goes by the name of Toothless. Toothless is about 7 or 8 years old and is in the 2nd grade. He is white, has short blonde hair and dark brown eyes. He is at the stage where his teeth is falling out, hence the name toothless. I observed Toothless at the Reeves Rogers Elementary school, after school program called ESP (extended school program) here in Murfreesboro, TN. There was generally 6-8 adults there to handle the kids and generally 1 or 2 assigned to the 2nd grade class…

The form in which children learn has often made psychologists and even educators to ponder more. There have been several theories that have come up from several theorists in important fields. One kind of this theories is the Lev Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory of learning. According to Vygotsky's theory, the mental development of language thought, and the reasoning process gets developed through interactions and social relationships. This, therefore, means that the development of an individual…

SDL originated from Malcolm Knowles’ introduction of the term andragogy, where the first of five assumptions was that adult learners are capable of directing his or her own learning. Knowles began his inquiry of how learning as adult differs from learning as a child by looking at how social roles differ for a child and adult he developed the five assumptions of andragogy. Knowles noted that a child’s primary role is a student, to learn the basic knowledge required to take on learning as an adult…

I choose the Behaviorist Theory led John Watson. Watson was an American psychologist who established the psychological school of behaviorism. The book of the Development of Children stated that according to Watson, he asserted that behaviorism entirely transformed how human behavior should be understood and studied because it shifted the focus from the inner workings of the mind and personality to external, observable behaviors and their consequences. It showed that this made the science of…

NAME AND BIOGRAPHICAL DATA OF STUDENT PARTICIPANT Daniel Anderson (alias to protect minor) is a friendly eleven-year old fifth grader who is of average size and' height. He attends an upper level elementary school in rural Washington County, Indiana. Daniel says that he makes A's and B's in school, and that he loves playing basketball. His dad was a starter on the basketball team when he was in high school. His brother is also on the high school basketball team. Daniel says he plays basketball…

CHILD PSYCHOLOGY Assignment # 1 Topic : Interpret the implication of child psychology. Analyze the future of child psychology and developmental psychology. Submitted to: Miss Zara Haroon Submitted by: Minahil Mazhar Hayat Session: 2015 – 2019 Date: 8th September 2015 Kinnaird College for Women. Definition of Child Psychology: The study of psychological aspects and application of psychological techniques to infants and children is widely known as child psychology. Definition of…

Moral Development Definition of Moral development Moral development is the way by which children polish their attitudes right way and their behavior with surrounding people, based on social and ethics, rules, and regulations. Introduction Moral development main focus is on the children; forming a perception of what is good and bad. Moral development also explains the difference between right and wrong, the teaching of good behaviors’. Moral development constitutes how people flourish in…

Introduction Play is the fundamental tools to promote children’s emotional, social and cognitive growth because children can fully express concrete and symbolic experience through play (Piaget, 1962). Due to the limitation of language ability, children cannot have fully express the complex though and their inner feeling by using world only (Piaget, 1951). Thus, similar to adult that talking is the common strategy for expression or exploration, play is the child’s natural mean to help them to…

T Introduction Jean Piaget a well-known and first psychologist to make a systemic study of cognitive development. He was a very talented scholar and his first scientific paper, on the Albino Sparrow published at the age of ten. After he received his doctoral degree at the age of twenty-two, Piaget formally began his career that would have a profound impact on psychology and education. Today, Piaget is best known for his research on children’s cognitive development. He studied the intellectual…