Aja Huffman

  Description             The focus of reading and discussion in EDAT 6115 this week was on behavioral and social theories of learning. A behavioral learning theory is related to the way behaviors are learned and “unlearned”. Learning is when an individual change happens because of an experience. Learning can also be a change in the knowledge of a learner from an experience that they have had. When people, especially children watch some television programs, they learn behaviors that can be aggressive, violent and prosocial. Analyze             In children’s television programs, aggressive behaviors can be present. Aggressive behavior can cause physical or emotional harm to others. It may range from verbal abuse to physical abuse. Physical aggression can be anywhere from shooting, biting, or hitting in the program. Verbal aggression maybe yelling, putting others down with harsh words or name calling. Violent behavior in children’s television programming is when characters from

Description The focus of reading and discussion in the EDAT 6115 this past week was on cognitive, language and literacy development of children. Most developmental psychologists believe that nature and nurture are combined to influence cognitive development, but some psychologists believe cognitive development focuses on what a child goes through socially will influence their development. Some factors in the in the cognitive development of a child can be influenced by culture, parenting, biology and education. Knowing how children develop will help you understand how they learn and the best way to teach them.  Analysis Jean Piaget who was a developmental psychologist, believed children's knowledge comes from active interactions with the world around them. He developed four stages of cognitive development which reflect the different stages of how children think and process information. The first stage is the sensorimotor stage which is for children ages birth to two years o