nurture theories

Question 1

what is Jean Piaget’s theory

Answer 1

• cogntitive theory
• a childs competence with language comes hand in hand with their understanding
• without basic understanding, language wouldn’t be there
• language is linked with intellectual development
• 4 stages of matury
  1. pre- linguistic stage- between birth and 1 years old, childen start to form a sense of physical identify
  2. sensoric motar stage- between birth and 18 months, children learn about Earth
  3. pre operational stage - between 18 months and 7 years old when children generalise and begin to understand basic symbolic reperesentation
  4. concrete operational stage- between 7 and 11 years, when children learn mental tasks, but they are limited to only real life object

Question 2

what is skinners theory

Answer 2

• we write on our ‘blank slates’
• we learn to speak through a process of limitation, positive and negative
• children are likely to be coreected on the truth, not linguistic accuracy
• he used animals to justify as all behaviour in the animal world is affected by consequences

Question 3

what is Vgotskys theory

Answer 3

• he suggested the importance of ‘doing’ for a childs development
• caregilvers act as a knowledge other
• through more knowledge, the adult can direct the child into a ‘zone of proximinal development’
• ‘ZPD’ = the difference between what a learner can and cant do without help
• egocentric is the childs inability to understand another persons pov
• he agreed that egocentric speech is observation, if an object is in the way of a child, they will get annoyed