Jean-François Lyotard

The rapid economic development has impacted our life tremendously. Life is getting much easier and more convenient thanks technology and quick accessed information. However, we do not have everything for granted, we have been working so hard for it. As parents, we spend more time working to bring home money and at the same time dealing with the stress of keeping the job. Consequently, we spend less time with our family, especially with our children, to play with our children or read them a good…

The first topic I will cover in my report is physical development. I will begin with my mother’s pregnancy, and how her circumstances effected my development as a fetus, as well as the person I am today. Her pregnancy was pretty normal, however my mother did smoke cigarettes and was only fifteen while she was pregnant. I developed in what appeared to be a normal way, and was delivered at 39 weeks and 4 days via vaginal delivery I was born weighing 6.4 pounds and 21 inches long. Piaget’s…

Jean Piaget was and still is a very famous psychologist in Human Development. He was born in Neuchatel, Switzerland on August 9, 1896 and died in Geneva, Switzerland on September 16, 1980. While his father was interested in the city they came from and medieval literature, Piaget’s mother was a very kind, smart lady but was not psychologically stable and that is what influenced his interest into human psychology. As a kid Piaget found animals, such as mollusks, birds and anything else from…

1. The first stage of labor is the longest stage and it consists of three substages. Latent or early labor is the first part of the first stage. What begins to happen at this point is a thinning of the cervix and there will be a dilation of up to 3 cm. Other signs during this early labor stage can include heavy discharge and also leaking of amniotic fluid. The bigger sign at this point will be the contractions starting up. They will hurt but you will still be able to walk around.. Contractions…

mother, Cristy Lopez, and her father, Luis Lopez, questions concerning their daughter’s infanthood up until now. Then I moved on to experiment with Laura herself, to which she was more than willing to participate in. The experiment was to test what Jean Piaget called the concept of conservation.…

Arthur Jones has just come back home from kindergarten, eagerly telling his older sister Alice about the enormous sand castle that he built with his best friend Jonathan. Arthur, a fictional child, has just recently turned five years old. He is loving kindergarten and has made many new friends in class. He’s a very clever child who loves to read. When he’s not at school, he likes to watch cartoons and make puzzles. Occasionally, he will play some video games. Arthur is developing parallel to…

COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT The first prominent area of development in my life is cognitive development. According to Jean Piaget, adaptation or adjustment to the environment include two basic processes, which are assimilation and accommodation. Assimilation is the act of using one’s existing schemes to make meaning or to interpret events in the world—an attempt to comprehend new information by fitting it into pre-existing information or knowledge. Sometimes, distorting new information is necessary…

In the movie E.T., directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Melissa Mathison, there are many examples of developmental theories of psychology. Throughout the entire movie, all of the children exhibited examples of varying developmental theories. Elliot went through cognitive childhood development; Michael went through the nurture side of nature vs. nurture and intellectual development; Gertie fit into Piaget 's theory of concrete operational; and lastly all the children came together with…

master the above mentioned skills. Assessments and theories with different methods, approaches and techniques are continuously put into action throughout a child’s education to make sure that they have everything they need for their learning experience. Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky has greatly influenced many methods to teaching, through their study of children’s cognitive development. They share many similarities and differences in the way they view cognitive development in children.…

vary, so as a teacher, having resources such as these different theories, are to help create the environment that each child needs to be successful. Since there are a variety of learning theorist, the two that will be mentioned are Erik Erikson and Jean Piaget. Both theorist have been influential for early childhood education, and have provided concrete learning styles that children develop. Erik Erikson was a psychosocial theorist, which he proposes eight stages of development. He…