Jean Charest

Over the course of my entire life, and the events that I have gone through, one thing has become quite evident. I have learned that my actions as a human being directly correlate to the type of person that I am. For instance, when a person learns something at a young age, their mind grows on this idea and they learn how to act. As a child I could distinctly remember an instance where my actions affected the person who I am now. Before I think of doing something or expressing what I would like to…

The film Piaget’s Development Theory: An Overview was about Jean Piaget, who was born in Neuchatel, Switzerland in 1869. He was a scientist in early age. Throughout his career, he wrote more than sixty books and wrote more than hundred articles. Piaget is known as a psychologist, but he really was an epistemologist. At the age of ten, he published his first scientific paper an observation of an albino sparrow. He was well publisher that by the age of sixteen he was offered sight unseen the…

Jean based his theory of cognitive development on his background and training as a biologist (Eva L. Essa 116). Piaget was the first psychologist to make a systematic study of cognitive development. In Piaget 's cognitive sense he explains that adaptation…

The world around a child is a wondrous and expansive place in which many queries and faults can arise, I observed this very situation on Thanksgiving night with my younger cousin Sebastian Otenti. Sebastian is 3 years old and his mind reflects the inexperience he holds, this inexperience makes him special and garners amazement from me at every turn. I began observation of Sebastian about an hour before dinner was served to everybody so at this point appetizers were still being displayed and…

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…