Piaget's Theory of Infant Development

If I could teach a pregnant mother it would be 1st trimester of pregnancy. I think that the 1st trimester is very important. Just knowing something grown inside of you and it’s also become a part of you. I would start talking about how the hormonal changes will affect almost every organ in your body. The swollen on her body may protrude the frequent urination, weight gain or loss and maybe an experience of discomfort. I would go to detail about how 4 weeks your baby development nervous system and heart begin to form. At 8 weeks the baby embryo to develop into a fetus. All major organs have begun to form, the sex organs begin to form and the nerves and muscles begin to work together. I would like to tell her everything she would want to know about her baby. The considering stage of a

They teach their fetuses about abundances, scarcity, safety, and harm. Annie argued that learning is an essential quality of life that begins way before we can imagine. It is important to understand the way mothers contribute to the learning of the fetus before they’re even

The four stages are sensorimotor stage birth two years old. The child, through physical interaction with his or her environment, builds a set of concepts about reality and how it works. This is the stage where a child does not know that physical objects remain in existence even when out of sight object permanence. Preoperational stage ages are two to seven (Funderstanding Education

~Alexis’s language development is very good. She likes to tell people about things she has done, but she sometimes leaves out details. When I hear her telling stories I ask questions to help her to fill in a few details. Alexis is also fascinated with her new baby sister Ashlynn and tells everyone about her.

The original due date for this unborn child was not until three months from this night, however, the doctors had the situation under control. When my mom went into labor prematurely, they had the ability to perform a Cesarean section and give birth to my little sister. This was only the beginning of the adventure for three pounds one ounce Elisabeth Marie Ballard. The first stop on her journey was the NICU to be placed in an incubator to be kept warm and monitored for developmental problems. During the first weeks of her life, she was fed breast milk through a tube that ran from her nose to her stomach. After two months in the NICU incubator, she was finally gained enough weight to go home. This exciting moment did come with a few strings attached. Her weight and vitals still needed to be monitored, so the hospital sent home a machine that allowed them to receive all of her vitals in real time. Her size and prematurity have never stopped her from leading a regular life. Thanks to the technology advancements in the medical field, my sister survived her prematurity and is now leading the life of an annoying six-year-old sibling. Libby, as we call her, transcended the process of natural selection and childhood mortality, and her life is a miracle. The credit can be given to the technology and the people who wield the knowledge

Discuss the history that you would take on this child in preparation for the well-child visit. Include questions regarding her growth and development that are appropriate for her age

After constantly observing that certain actions lead to certain results, around 8 to 12 months, infants increasingly acquire knowledge of cause-effect relationships. Accordingly, they begin to engage in goal-directed behavior: They behave in ways that they know will bring around wanted results. They also begin to combine behaviors in new ways to achieve their goals. One achievement in this sub-stage is object permanence, the recognition that physical objects still exist even when they are removed

Provide information about a baby developing in the womb, such as the baby's position and heart rate.

Infants in this stage learn from schemes or the organization of their knowledge, which then influences how they interpret the world and react to it. They learn how to use their sensory stimuli to respond to events and how to utilize skills and abilities that they are born with to learn about their surroundings.

Piaget, Erikson, Skinner and Vygotsky all have similarities and differences within their approaches in regards to cognitive development. Firstly, Piaget’s theory of cognitive development describes the changes in logical thinking of children and adolescents. Piaget suggested that children proceed through four stages that are based on maturation and experience. Piaget managed numerous intelligence tests to children and this led to him becoming interested in the types of faults children of different ages were most probable to make. Piaget hypothesized that cognitive development proceeds in four genetically determined stages that always follow the same sequential order (Developmental and Learning Theories, 2011). The four stages in Piaget theory are the Sensorimotor stage (infancy), the Pre-operational stage (Toddler and Early Childhood), the Concrete operational stage (Elementary and early adolescence), and the Formal operational stage (Adolescence and adulthood). Furthermore, Piaget’s theory is guided by assumptions of how learners interact with their environment and how they integrate new knowledge and information on existing knowledge. In brief, Piaget proposed that children are active learners who build knowledge from their environments and they learn through assimilation and accommodation, and complex cognitive development occurs through equilibration (Developmental and Learning Theories, 2011). Piaget also believed that the interaction with physical and social

When Finley did her developmental testing for 19 months, she scored at about the 12-15 month old range in terms of communication skill, language comprehension, and language production. This indicated that she was below average in these developmental categories. The doctor recommended that I should work on asking Finley questions that have an extended answer and require more than a “yes” or “no” answer. The doctor also suggested that I should read books with Finley and look at and name the things in picture books.

This is where an infant uses a combination of actions to solve simple problems and/or achieve simple goals. Throughout this period infants commonly make the ‘A-not-B error’. This error means infants will almost always search for an object in the place they last found it (place A), rather than in a new place (place B). Zara made this error in her game of ‘hide-and-seek’. when Zara is looking for her toy rabbit, she reaches for the cushion her pacifier was last under, showing exactly how the ‘A-not-B error’ occurs in infants. As Zara grows out of the substage she is currently in, by around 18months old, she will have full capability regarding object permanence. This means she will no longer make errors such as the ‘A-not-B’, and instead will fully grasp invisible displacements. Zara will be able to mentally signify when an invisible action is occurring, such as her toy rabbit being hidden, and comprehend the location of the object whether it is visible or

Piaget’s theory has been criticised for underestimating an infant’s abilities; especially the timings in which an infant is able to carry out a particular behaviour. So it’s difficult to pin-point an exact time frame of development. However, his theory is still heavily influential, maintains empirical validity and preserves heuristic values by stimulating many hypotheses today.

Meltzoff suggests that the theory of infant and toddler cognition needs to be updated because Piaget’s theory doesn’t align with empirical evidence. Evidence suggests that infant and toddler cognition development occurs early than previously thought. Additionally, the interconnection between visual input, proprioception, and infant behavior is supported by this evidence. In contrast, Piaget’s theory involves a separation of development through various time frames. Overall, Piaget’s theory fails to accurately depict normal development when compared to data on infant and toddler

Education and learning is a big role in our lives. Accessing knowledge doesn’t just happen in a classroom, but in all walks of life. The ability to learn starts way before anyone can walk or talk. A fetus can hear the actions and conversations happening around the mother’s belly. However, the sounds are muffled. Similar to placing a hand over the mouth of a person that is talking, but the fetus can still hear the rhythm of speech (Skwarecki, 2013). The ability to learn doesn’t start at birth, it starts in the fetal stage. There are many things a baby can learn while in the womb during the third trimester. They can learn the dialect of the mother’s native tongue. They will recognize the theme song to a program that was played frequently. The infant’s psychological brain functions can also be altered by what the mother endured while pregnant (Paul, 2011). Therefore, as a society we should all be tactful and wary of what we say or conflict around a woman that is expecting.