Jean Rouch

The Connectionism Theory of Learning was introduced by a prominent psychologist, Edward Thorndike. His theory was based on creating stimuli that would generate responses, and called these bonds the stimuli-response connections. Thorndike wanted to apply his laws to mathematics and other fields for humans, but he began with his puzzle-box studies. Around 1900, he conducted a series of experiments where he placed a hungry cat in puzzle box with food outside the cage. The cage could be opened by a…

Toy library allied to learning, reassessment twenty years after the implementation of the method. ABSTRACT: This article tries to evaluate the method introduced by Lou de Olivier in 1997 with repercussion in Brazil, Portugal and England. The referred method consists in the use of toys, games and toys to stimulate the learning of children considered with normal development and, specially, in children who present some especially learning disturbance. This article examines the twenty years of…

Both Sara Novic’s Girl at War (2015) and Philip Roth’s Plot Against America (2004) are told from the perspective of a child. The narrators of these novels construct their own methods of understanding to grasp complex sociological issues. Inevitably, as children, their understanding of these issues are simplified to accommodate their capacity. Although, the mature audience of these novels understands the shortcomings of childish understanding, the authors use these perspectives to speak to our…

The article that I read was “The Visual Cliff,” by Eleanor J. Gibson and Richard D. Walk. Based on what I read in the article, the intent of the paper was to investigate depth perception in babies, and in animals. The authors thought that a child would have common sense if they are places on a piece of glass that would have a depth to it, they would be able to notice the depth that is created. The hypothesis of this was to see if children and animals know depth perception. Depth perception can…

Overtime, as we begin to grow up and become Mature, we realize our mistakes and learned from in coherent ways in order to grow as a person and become more civilized. In Araby and How I Met My Husband , both authors showed how their main characters coming of age and developed over the passage. Each protagonist from both stories go through a child phase to a young juvenile who’s more experienced than at first. However, their path’s adapt in a different order to find themselves. In , Araby the…

The rhetorical arguments used in this commercial are a balancing amount of ethical and emotional. The questions posed by the father as he narrates, indirectly challenge the morality of our society’s patriarchy. Often young children are thought of as having the best moral compass due to their naivety and innocence. The ad implies that if it would not seem right to a little girl that her mother and father or grandpa and grandma are not thought of as equally important, then societal gender roles…

This essay is going to look at the different theories of attachment, as well as the concepts that are associated with them. It will also discuss how attachment has changed but continues to be a crucial part of a child’s development. Attachment is a key part of developmental psychology and was introduced by John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth who made an influential contribution in terms of the importance of attachment in relation to contemporary children’s settings ie nursery’s. Attachment is a tie…

The 3rd -grade students in Elliott's study are around 8-9 years old. According to their age in Piaget's theory, they are in the concrete operational stage. Apart from their age placing them in that stage, the children are able to think logically about the study they were under. In the class divided video the children wearing the collars were able to express their feelings, as they were less than themselves and distracted by the collars. On the first day of the study when the blue-eyed children…

Introduction This report argues how Vygotsky’s socio-cultural theory underpins education principles and practices, and student’s learning and development, informed by scholarly material, and observations of practices, formulated from observing a lower primary class. Vygotsky’s socio-cultural theory illustrates the power of language, culture and social interactions with more knowledgeable others, to generate critical thinking. As according to Vygotsky, the major influence on child’s learning and…

studied these developmental milestones, and put them into broad stages of development, which many children go through during certain time frames. Jean Piaget, one of the most well known child development theorist, formed the Cognitive Development Theory which has helped educators to understand a child’s cognitive abilities from birth to early adolescence. Jean Piaget disagreed with behavioral theorists who believed that a child’s learning depended on reinforcers. He believed that a child’s…