Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Piaget, Erikson, Bronfenbrenner, and Vygotsky are four theorist. They all developed theories involving child development. Piaget believes child development occurs in different processes. His theory also has four different stages on how a child develops. Erikson's theory is of psychosocial development he also believes in eight different stages of development that occur across the lifespan. Bronfenbrenner's theory is on levels of environmental influence. Vygotsky's theory focuses on social and…

There have been copious amounts of research conducted on the study of infants and their development. One of the more prominent studies is the debate on whether or not babies learn to walk in stages or if these stages do not matter. Researchers Adolph and Robinson argue that infants do not follow a chronological series of events in order to begin walking. Infants have shown that they somewhat know the motions of walking because when an adult holds an infant and lets their feet rest upon a flat…

The overproduction of synapses and synaptic pruning support infants’ and children’s ability to learn because has it states in the book,“about 40 percent of synapses are pruned during childhood and adolescence (Webb, Monk, & Nelson, 2001). For this process to advance, appropriate stimulation of the child’s brain is vital during periods in which the formation of synapses is at its peak” (Berk & Meyers, 2016, pg. 162). They also explain how stimulation has a part of this, “At first, stimulation…

a. Anthropologists and Sociologists have long been interested in children as a social group and how their childhoods have changed through history and across cultures the world over. They have sort answers to how we view children, how children are treated, how children develop and the immediate social, environmental and cultural factors that influence a child’s development. Towards the end of the 20th Century researchers started to feel that a more comprehensive, international understanding and…

As people begin to age their view an outlooks on life begin to change due to their life experiences. Their views on religion and spirituality will consequently adapt with their outlook on life. James Fowler designed a model of faith development that explains all forms of faith including nonreligious faith. Fowler’s model is an attempt to capture the essence of faith development in a generic sense. According to Paloutzian and Fowler, faith development proceeds in the following order. •…

believe I was a little in love with you.’” (Hugo page number) Eponine was willing to take a bullet for him, but Marius didn’t give her the time of day and only saw her as a friend. She was even the one to lead Marius to where Cosette was staying with Jean Valjean. Eponine also gave him the note from Cosette in the movie. If he had any respect for Eponine he would have left her out of it, but he was too blinded by love to see that he was hurting…

Forceville (2006) points out that even though Lakoff and Johnson’s characterization of metaphor’s essence as “understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another” emphatically avoids the word “verbal” or “linguistic,” the validity of CMT’s claims about the existence of conceptual metaphors depends almost exclusively on the patterns detectable in verbal metaphors. An early study of metaphors in pictures is Kennedy (1982). Kennedy takes “metaphor” in the all-encompassing sense of…

Piaget believed that children passed through 4 stages of cognitive development and that children think in very different ways compared to adults. These stages are: 1. The sensory-motor stage (0-2): Children use senses and motor skills to explore their world and develop their cognitive skills. A main milestone of this stage is knowing something still exists even if they cannot see it. 2. Preoperational stage (2-7): Thinking is still egocentric. Children start to use language and classify items by…

Human intelligence is defined as the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills. Gardner had a different idea of what being intelligent actually meant. In fact, he states that there are multiple types of intelligence that one can have. His works shows that children are not at the same stage intelligence wise, which challenged the work of Piaget. Gardner used his work to show that educators should integrate educational theories, teaching strategies, and other pedagogic tools in meaningful…

There are various different approaches in psychology. An approach is a perspective (i.e. view) that comprises of certain assumptions (beliefs). In the study of human behavior each perspective has its strengths and weakness, and brings something different to the understanding of human behavior. Behaviorism Perspective Behaviorism emphasize the role of environmental factors(stimuli) in influencing behavior(reaction). Behaviorist believe that all behaviour is learned and shaped by the environment.…