Prepositions in English – Shortcut Rules
Prepositions in English – Shortcut Rules Rule 1 : Across Across – On teh opposite side of My Cousin lives across the river.✔ Across – From one side to another The boy swam across the river ✔ Across – both…
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Prepositions in English – Shortcut Rules Rule 1 : Across Across – On teh opposite side of My Cousin lives across the river.✔ Across – From one side to another The boy swam across the river ✔ Across – both…
Conjunctions in English – Shortcut Rules Rule 1 : The co-relative conjunctions are used in pairs. Not only – but also, Either – or Neither – nor, Both – and, Though – yet, Whether – or. Please see that the…
Verbs – Shortcut Rules Shortcut Rule 1 : If the subject is of the third person, singular number (He, She, It) add ‘S’ or ‘es / ies’ to the first form of the verb to make it singular number. She…
Adverbs – English Grammar Shortcut Rules Rule 1 : The adverbs ‘too much’ is used with nouns and ‘much too’ is used with adjectives. Too much pain / Too much insincerity (Nouns) Much too painful / much too careless (Adjectives)…
Adjectives – English Grammar Shortcut Rules Examples : Sizes : big, small, large, thin, thick Shapes : triangular, round, square, circular Colors : black, blue, white, green, red Personality : happy, sad, angry, depressed Time : Yearly , monthly, annually…
Noun- Shortcut Rules Shortcut Rule 1 : The following words are uncountable and are normally used in the singular form only. The indefinite article “A or An” Should not be used with them. They have no plural forms. ‘A/An’ not…
English Grammar Shortcut Rules For CDS, NDA, AFCAT Exams Articles – Shortcut Rules Rule 1 : The indefinite article ‘A’ should be used before the word ‘Half’ when it follows a whole number. I stayed in Madras for one…
Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development Piaget’s Basic Tendencies in Thinking Piaget identified that children actively construct their own cognitive worlds. To make sense of the world, they organize their experiences and adapt their thinking to include new information. Organization is…
Emotional Development Emotion has been defined differently as ‘a stage of agitation’, ‘disturbance of equilibrium’, ‘intense random and disorganized response to a stimulus’. In modern life, emotions demand greater understanding because of their pervasive effects on behaviour, personality and health.…
Characteristics of Physical Development During childhood there are changes in a child’s height, weight and body proportion. The pace of this growth is more in later childhood (7-12 years) than in early childhood stage (3-6 years). Legs lengthen rapidly and there…
Physical Development Prior to the concept of physical development, let us imagine a process. Consider a newborn baby. Right now s/he has no control over her/his movements, but within 18 months s/he will be walking, in another year running, and…
Looking back at our lives, we have memories that remind us about the changes we have faced over time and it is a fact that humans grow and change throughout their entire lifespan. For example, Riya is just now learning…
CONCEPT OF THE DIMENSIONS OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT Looking back at our lives, we have memories that remind us about the changes we have faced over time and it is a fact that humans grow and change throughout their entire lifespan.…
Socio-cultural perspective emphasizes the role of culture and social interaction in the process of child development. Lev Vygotsky, the propounder of socio-cultural perspective, focuses that a child’s thinking does not develop in a vacuum but rather is influenced by the…
Information-Processing Approach Information-Processing approach traces the ways individuals manipulate information, monitor it and strategize about the information. As this approach is built from Piagetian research, it is also known as Neo-Piagetian approach. It explains how the thinking process of children…
Piagetian Approach or Cognitive Developmental Approach Famous cognitive psychologist, Jean Piaget proposed an important theory of cognitive development. This perspective focuses on how children construct their understanding of the world as they pass through four stages of cognitive development through…
Bioecological Perspective To understand the life course of a child and how that child interacts with her /his environment. In the 1970s, Urie Bronfenbrenner (1917-2005) developed the ecological viewpoint to explain how all aspects of the environment affect the child…
Selective Optimization with Compensation Model (SOC) Paul Baltes and his colleagues developed a model named Selective Optimization with CompensationModel (SOC) wherein an interaction between three processes, i.e., selection, compensation and optimization are depicted. Selection processes serve to choose goals, and…
Characteristics of Life-Span Perspective: Life-span development expert, Paul Bates and his colleagues provide many of the main approaches to human development based on this perspective. They highlighted the following features of life-span perspective as follows: Development is a life-long process.…
IMPACT OF SCHOOL ON DEVELOPMENT Development has been a critical issue in the education process. School holds a central place in the developmental process set forth for the students. They are the longest, organized and sustained extra-familial context for students.…