Social cognitive theory

In chapter five physical development in infancy and toddlerhood this reading emphasize’s on motor development. The definition of motor development refers to the development of a child's bones, muscles and ability to move around and manipulate his or her environment. Motor skills are a milestone in a parents life in consideration of there child taking their first steps to speaking their first words. “ When motor skills work as a system, separate abilities blend together, each cooperating with…

When a child is born, one of the first things they do is open their eyes, little do they know how sight will control their lives. Children's eyesight develops from focusing on toys, following parents and being attracted to lights and colours. Eye conditions also develop in the early stages of childhood. From a young age, I grew up with an eye condition known as strabismus, only now do I know how my sight has been affected. Being slightly myopic, I became more intrigued in optics after being…

The main stages of human development. The main stages of human development are the prenatal period, Infancy, early childhood, middle and late childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, and late adulthood (Santrock, 2015, p. 14). The prenatal stage starts at conception and ends with child birth (Santrock, 215, p. 14). The infancy stage starts with child birth and ends somewhere close to two years old (Santrock, 2015, p. 14). The early childhood stage starts around three and ends around five years…

According to Piaget’s stages of cognitive development, the infant that was observed would fall into the second stage, preoperational stage. Piaget’s preoperational stage is where the infant develops his/her thoughts focusing on mental exploration of the world (Anderson, 2015a). Infants are mentally manipulating information obtained and do not yet understand the concrete logic of their surroundings (). Within the preoperational stage (2-7 years of age), infants develop centration, egocentric…

The Sensorimotor Stages of Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development has six sub-stages. The most intriguing characteristics of a child’s behavior happen during the first two years of their life. Jean Piaget said “During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions.” Infants live in the present and are not mentally developed enough yet to thinking of the future or look back on the past. Object only…

Jean Piaget, a Swiss psychologist opened the world to the idea of children going through “four universal stages: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operations”(Feldman 2011,pg.168). The backbone to his theory comes from a basic calculation that, “action= knowledge”(Feldman 2011,pg.168). With this equation Piaget is suggesting that for children to learn and grow they must be provided with the right tools. Just like the virtual child on the MyLab program, it is…

Systemic cognitive development and family dysfunction There are many theories’ that address human development. Piaget’s cognitive theory was “expanded and modified by Allen Ivey” (Nugent & Jones, pg. 80). Piaget’s theory relates “mostly to childhood and adolescence, Ivey added another stage that addresses dialectic/systematic stage” (Nugent & Jones, pg. 81). Ivey called his “model DCT or developmental counseling and therapy” (Nugent & Jones, pg. 82). Sandra Rigazio-DiGilio expanded upon…

Piaget began as an evolutionary biologist—he thus believed that organisms adapt to survive (Bee, 1997). Just like these organisms, children too need to adapt to their environment to ensure their survival (Bee, 1997; Carlson & Buskist, 1997). In order for a new born child to understand the world they live in they need to develop schemas (Bee, 1997; Carlson & Buskist, 1997). Schemas are units of knowledge, each pertaining to a different aspect of the world. Furthermore, schema can be classified as…

turned seven years old, and during this part of my life, I was a part of two stages of development in both Piaget’s and Erikson’s which are Concrete Operational and Industry Vs. Inferiority. The Concrete Operational stage is Piaget Third stage of Cognitive Development and it begins from seven to twelve years old. “(kids) can perform concrete operations and can reason logically as applied to specific or concrete examples” (Mendez, 2018, Chapter 7.1). In this stage, I can use logic in any given…

of the mind were Piaget and Vygotsky. Piaget’s theory allows teachers to identify the characteristic ways in which students learn based on their age group and grade level, and Vygotsky’s theory gives teachers the ability to instruct students based on where they are developmentally by the concepts of the Zone of Proximal Development and scaffolding; these concepts can, also, be reflected in teaching in a variety of ways. Understanding Piaget’s theory is vital to understanding the mental…