Jean Clemens

What is an Assessment Tool? The early year of children’s development is an important time for the growth of children’s brain growth and the opportunity in maximizing children learning in the different developmental domain i.e. physical, intellectual, emotional and social. Poor quality child care is of a concern as children requires responsive and simulating environment from the caregiver; this in turn helps them to enhance their social, cognitive and language development (Bronfenbrenner &…

There are a number of factors that may result in children needing additional support in their daily lives through nature or nurture. Therefore, nature or nurture both matter and result into children needing additional support. However, it is important to first understand the term additional needs which means children who may need support for some reason, with disabilities or medical conditions or those needing reassurance because they are settling in a new setting/school. In addition,…

GPS2016 Child Psychology Essay Definition A working memory is a process that involves storing, focusing attention on, and manipulating information for a relatively short period of time, such as a few seconds (Working Memory. 2018). The working memory has three functions which includes, encoding, storage and retrieval. There are also two types of working memory, one being auditory memory and the other would be visual-spatial memory. An example would be when a child has a weak working…

Children under the sensorimotor stage demonstrate a certain number of stages, which range from simple reflexes to the coordination of means and ends. Sensorimotor cognition focuses on movements and actions without language, like the thumb-sucking or the finger-grasping of a baby. According to Piaget, the sensorimotor stage is made up of displacements which are subject to reversal, although not mathematically. This means that a child can return to his starting point and attain the same ends by…

Cognitive developmental theories provide a framework for understanding about how children act and perceive the world. However, every theory has both strengths and weaknesses. A certain theory may explain one aspect of cognitive development very well, but poorly address or completely ignore other aspects that are just as important. Two well known theories of cognitive development are Piaget’s stage theory and Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory. As I plan to be a pediatric nurse, these two theories…

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. •…