Jean-François Lyotard

child proof and has white baby gates in front of the stairs for protection. Upon entering the household my first glance, I notice that they were a variety of developmentally appropriate toys scattered across the floor. Noah is a boy wearing denim blue jeans and a blue and white striped shirt with long curly black hair. Noah was demonstrating as he watched his favorite educational video that he has remembered what happens during the video as he is ready to start demonstrating what the video is…

Assignment 1 – Domains of Development Child development was largely ignored throughout much of history as children were often viewed simply as smaller versions of adults. However, as a child, you rapidly engage in new experiences and acquire most of your personal characteristics during this time. Therefore, it has been recognised that this is the most significant stage of an individual’s growth. Childhood development begins from infancy to adolescent and follows a predictable, yet progressive…

Children are our pillars for tomorrow. It is therefore important to study children in different ages. The main goal of this project is to understand child development by using case study method along with child observations and parents interview. Given the circumstances of long distance, Skype is used to observe the child and parent interview. Matthew, who is born and raised in Hong Kong, is an outgoing and smart 7th grader. He is a 10 year-old Chinese boy growing up in a middle class family…

Critical Examination of Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Development Although Kohlberg’s theory of morality has been crucial in understanding human’s moral judgments, it makes certain assumptions that may compromise its credibility. The theory is divided into three main stages: pre-conventional, conventional, and post-conventional morality. At the pre-conventional stage, children’s moral judgments are dictated by the rules and regulations handed down by the parents or school administration (Gale,…

In this chapter we learned about the role society plays in developing the people we become. Particularly, in the discussion of the development of self. Self is defined as our internalized view of how others perceive us. Basically, it is how we see ourselves “from the outside” or from another person’s perspective. Three of the most notable theories about the development of self are by well-known sociologists. Two were symbolic interactionist yet they had different theories on how one’s self is…

Born on August 9, 1896 Jean Piaget grew up In Switzerland under care from his father who studied medieval literature and his mother Rebecca. His mother credits her son’s interest in science due to his own tendencies. In Piaget’s early life he was fascinated with molluscs up until he attended college. Piaget worked under Carl Jung and Paul Eugen Bleuler while studying psychology. His interest was to get a more in-depth meaning to psychoanalysis, and further study abnormal psychology.…

During the early 1900’s there were two psychologist that stood out from all the others, Lev Vygotsky and Jean Piaget. Vygotsky is a part of the foundation for study of cognitive development. Born in end of 1869 and died in 1934 he was the leader of developmental psychology, education, and child development in his short thirty-five years. Moreover, Jean Piaget was born in 1896 and died in 1980 during those eighty-four years he made drastic leaps in psychology and childrens’ development. Even…

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, has been central to American literature for over a century. He was born on November 30, 1835 in a small town in Missouri. Mark Twain is one of the most famous American literature authors of all time. He has changed the way people look at American Literature and has wrote hundreds of stories about his past childhood experiences and way of life. Twain tried to embody his virtues into the stories he wrote to help readers through tough times…

ability to use his imagination in his play by believing he is a Martian. In one part of the movie, Dennis placed the vacuum handle on his forehead, starts walking around the room and making sucking-like sounds as if he is the vacuum. This is relevant to Jean Piaget’s Preoperational Stage: Mental Representation, which is typical of children Dennis’ age. This theory also falls under the Cognitive Development…

DEVELOPMENT Physical Development As far as this young girl’s physical development went, she seemed to be ahead of where most three-year-olds usually are. When I heard that she was three years of age, I was surprised; her stature appeared to be much taller than that of an average girl of her age. She seemed to be closer in height to her six-year-old sister than to the two-year-olds in the daycare. Her thin but strong frame was suggestive of a healthy diet and plenty of exercise over her short…