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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…
The goal of developmental cognitive neuroscience is to know how brain function gives rise to mental processes such as logical thinking, reasoning, and vision. This approach looks at cognitive development through the lens of brain processes. ‘Developmental cognitive neuroscience is…
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…
Bronfenbrenner Ecological Model 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 and…
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…
Life-Span Perspective It is not related to a specific area of development (for example, psycho-social) or age period (adolescence) rather, it attempts to understand the development of an individual throughout the life within a changing socio-cultural context. Before entering into…
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.…
PERSPECTIVES IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND THEIR EDUCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS Different perspectives on development explain behaviour as well as predict behaviour that can be observed. Biological Perspective Let’s begin our discussion of perspectives with the biological perspective. In the development of psychology,…
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.…
DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS IN DIVERSE SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL BACKGROUNDS A developmental task is a task which arises at a certain period in the life of the individual. The individual passes through a socially regulated cycle from birth to death and there…
ISSUES IN DEVELOPMENT Nature vs. Nurture When we talk about nature in child development, we are talking about what comes to children through heredity. When we talk about nurture, we are referring to the influence of the environment. People who…
A balanced development occurs because of the combined role of heredity and environment. A child may have good heredity background, but if the environment in which he or she is brought up is not good, he or she may not…