GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
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is not heavily influenced by maturation.
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is like a blank slate at birth because infants aren’t born with any reflexes or behaviors.
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is heavily dependent on the child’s personality.
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interprets reality differently from an adult because of different schemas.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Theory of Cognitive Development by Jean Piaget, the Swiss psychologist, suggests that children’s intelligence undergoes changes as they grow. Cognitive development in children is not only related to acquiring knowledge, children need to build or develop a mental model of their surrounding world (Miller, 2011).
Detailed explanation-2: -A schema, or scheme, is an abstract concept proposed by J. Piaget to refer to our, well, abstract concepts. Schemas (or schemata) are units of understanding that can be hierarchically categorized as well as webbed into complex relationships with one another. For example, think of a house.
Detailed explanation-3: -To Piaget, cognitive development was a progressive reorganization of mental processes as a result of biological maturation and environmental experience. Children construct an understanding of the world around them, then experience discrepancies between what they already know and what they discover in their environment.
Detailed explanation-4: -In Piaget’s view, human thought originates in the development of the motor capacities. Hence babies acquire their earliest knowledge not only through their perceptions but also through their actions and the changes that these actions let them effect in the world.