Stage Development Theory

Examples of this being throughout the first few chapters he does what he is supposed to do without running around screaming like the other kids but gets excited when something happens. On page 3 he says “Crane-man! A good thing you greeted me… use the proper words!” This shows that he was happy and excited, but wasn’t acting like a normal kid his age being screaming and jumping around.

In the video “Oakley arrives,” Oakley just arrived in his center and would not let go of his mom; the educator took him from his mom and he did not cry, because he was familiar with his educator; and the educator suggested a book for him. The HighScope Infant-Toddler Key Developmental Indicators (n.d) skill #5 Attachment states that “Children form an attachment to a primary caregiver.” Inconclusion, Oakley demonstrated emotions that meets the norm for his age in the video.

Show and Tell Scott McCloud begins his graphic essay, Show and Tell, with a series of sixteen panels of a young boy demonstrating how to turn a toy robot into an airplane. By doing so, McCloud is informing the reader of just how everyone starts out as a child. For example, as McCloud points out, at a day like “Show and Tell”, students would present with them their favorite animal or whatever was needed for that day to present to the class. This is just like using words and images interchangeably which is what everyone was taught to do as a kid. However, this is all considered normal so long as the child grows out of this habit as they approach pre-adulthood.

Children need to be children. Children need to fantasize and learn, not feel less than others. Children’s voices should be heard, like an angel on your shoulder, not as an

Cognitive abilities enable children to process the sensory information that they collect from the environment. According to Wood, Smith and Grossniklaus (2012), Piaget defined cognitive development as the progressive reorganization of the mental processes that results in biological experience and maturation. As numerous researchers have explained, children normally undergo many changes from birth to adolescents, most of them being growth related. According to Cook (2005), the changes in thinking is what researchers call cognitive development. In toddlers, cognitive development is observed through the early use of tools and objects, the child’s behavior when objects are moved in front of them and their understanding when objects and when people are in their environment.

The thinking patterns between a three year old preschooler and a nine year old student are different in many ways. The three year old is in preoperational stage of thinking and the nine year old is in the concrete operational stage. These two stages have differ in a few ways. Three year olds, being part of the preoperational stage, thinks in a unique way. They are able to construct mental representations of an experience.

Many theorists discuss ways in which children are developing. Physically, emotionally, socially and language progressions. Within the early childhood sector, the study of children's development is vividly important as teachers learn to observe the children's individual learning patterns and habits. The practical knowledge of how to develop a child further will assist in utilising the children's skills and holistic development to their fullest potential, however, knowing how to practically aid children in the separate developmental domains is also key as individual kids need more help in some areas than others.

Infants’ self-initiated visual preferences to implicate that even at an early age, it is preferable to focus their attention on stimuli that enhances their learning and cognitive development. In addition, infants contribute to their own cognitive development through their observation of cause and effect. One of the major ways in which infants develop knowledge on cause and effect is through the observation of the physical world around them (Baillargeon,

(Burton, Westen, & Kowalski, 2014, p. 464). Piaget has proposed 4 stages in his theory of cognitive development; the first is sensorimotor stage, pre-operational stage, concrete operational stage and finally, formal operational stage. Mollie and her friends are in the Pre-operational stage of cognitive development. This can be shown as they are in a pre-school

However, children in the preocupational phase still struggle with solving problems that have to do with things that are not tangible or visible. For example, Piaget would say that a child in this stage would have difficulty thinking about abstract math concepts, such as those involved in

He has been advanced in the timing that Piaget has created, but it is good to know how infants learn through stages and that they are all individuals and learn at their own pace. Piaget has done something great by discovering these stages of cognitive development that can almost give parents and educators a map of what is happening in a child’s mind as they are growing up. In the video, Inside a Child’s Brain by David Eagleman (2015) it talks about how you become who you are by what is removed from the brain, after the age of 2 the neurons in the brain slow down. The links that you do not use in those first years of age in your brain you lose as you grow (The Brain). The video shows how important the first two years of age are in a child’s life while the sensorimotor stage is

The first stage is the sensory motor stage ( birth-2 yrs.) , in this stage child does not know the physical object in existence when out of stage. Second stage is called the preoperational stage (age2-7), no abstract conceptualisation is possible where it needs concrete physical situation. In the stage is concrete operational stage (age7-11), starts to conceptualize with experience that accumulates. The fourth stage is formal operation (11-15), cognitive structures resembles like adults and includes conceptual reasoning.

Introduction Development refers to the pattern of continuity and change in human capabalities that occurs throughout the course of life (King, 2008). Children development is is a part of human development that refers to a biological, emotional, and psychological changes that take a place in human beings between birth to adult. To develop from the child to adult, there are two main focus which is nature and nurture that must come together. Nature refers to the gene or heredity, meanwhile nurture involve the environment around us.

The second stage is between age of 2 to 6 years old, children form ideas with words and images, which is tend to be over generalizing. Developmental phenomena of this stage include pretending play, egocentrism and language development. And then the third stage from 7 to 11 years old, children think logically about concrete events and understand similar events. In this period, abilities of conversation and mathematical transformation get to be developed. Last stage, 12

Piaget’s theory of cognitive development Piaget asserts, children are born with inherited scripts, called schema, these schema are building blocks for cognitive development. As a child grows, he acquires more of these building blocks; moreover, these building blocks become more complex as the child progresses through different stages in development (Huitt, Hummel 2003). Piaget’s 4 stages of cognitive development are as follows. First, The sensorimotor stage where an infant has rudimentary motor skills, and can eventually