Psychology
Cognitive Development Activities
Prior to completing this discussion, read chapter 7, Piaget’s enduring contribution to developmental psychology, and On major developments in preschoolers’ imagination. Using Piaget’s theory of cognitive development, you will continue to build your Community Center Proposal by identifying an activity and a toy for one of the rooms in your center that promotes cognitive development. You can choose any of the five rooms for this discussion, but the activity must be focused on the cognitive milestones of your chosen age group and must be clearly tied to Piaget’s theory. So your activity might be focused on object permanence for infants, conservation, transitivity, or decentering for middle childhood, or deductive reasoning for adolescence. Then think about what kinds of educational toys would promote cognitive development in this age group and, again, tie the selected object to a specific milestone. You must use at least one scholarly source in either your activity or your toy entry. Here are two examples providing you a model of how to approach this discussion and how to build the elements of the rooms in your Community Center.
Patient’s diagnosis of schizophrenia
Schizophrenia affects not only the patient suffering from the symptoms, but the family members of the affected patient, community members and the nursing/ medical team caring for the affected patient.
1. What do you think a family goes through who has a member who is suffering from schizophrenia?
2. Do you think a patient’s diagnosis of schizophrenia is easily accepted, it’s treatment compliance and acceptance of the diagnosis by the patient’s family differs based on culture? If yes, give examples. If no, give a reason.
3. Why do you think some schizophrenics have a hard time staying on medication?
Theory of cognitive development
To prepare:
Review this week’s Learning Resources related to Piaget and Vygotsky’s theories of cognitive development and next week’s Learning Resources on behaviorist, biological, and nature-versus-nurture theories.
Select two theories to compare for this Assignment.
The Assignment (3 pages):
Write a 3-page paper in which you do the following:
Briefly introduce the theories you selected.
Explain how each theory characterizes cognitive development. What are the major causes/influences, processes, or stages within each?
Which one of these theories do you think best explains cognitive development and why?
Language Communities
Language acquisition is the ability to understand and speak a new language. Learning words, phrases, and sentences allow us to more effectively interact with members of another culture. However, there are also nontraditional forms of language acquisition. For example, English majors learn terminology that economics majors are unfamiliar with and vice versa. The same idea can be applied to someone starting a new job or joining a sports team. In order to become a member of a community, one must learn the established “language.”
In this essay, you will examine how a specific group of people use verbal and nonverbal