MABINI COLLEGES, INC.

Daet, Camarines Norte

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
1st Sem., S.Y.2020-2021

Name of Student: JOY A. VISITACION

Date Submitted: October 25, 2021
Course/ year: Methods of Teaching
Class Schedule: Tuesday-Thursday (7:00 pm – 8:30 pm)

Prof. Ed. 1 – The Child and Adolescent Learners and Learning Principles
Title: Human Developmental Theories

Focus Questions
Thinking to learning thoroughly…

1. What are the universal stages of development by Jean Piaget? Provide a brief
description per stage.

Answers:

Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development suggests that children move through four
different stages of mental development. His theory focuses not only on understanding how
children acquire knowledge, but also on understanding the nature of intelligence. 1 Piaget's
stages are:

 Sensorimotor stage: birth to 2 years

 Preoperational stage: ages 2 to 7
 Concrete operational stage: ages 7 to 11
 Formal operational stage: ages 12 and up

2. Erikson said, “ Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough
not to fear death.”
Give descriptions of a healthy child taking into account Erikson’s Psycho-Social
Theory of Development.

Answers:

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Erik Erikson said, "Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough
not to fear
death." He believed in the impact of the significant others in the development of one's view
of himself,
life and of the world. He presented a very comprehensive framework of eight psycho-social
stages of
development.
Erik Erikson said, "Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough
not to fear
death." He believed in the impact of the significant others in the development of one's view
of himself,
life and of the world. He presented a very comprehensive framework of eight psycho-social
stages of
development.
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
" He believed in the impact of the significant others in the development of one's
view of himself, life and of the world. He presented a very comprehensive framework
of eight psycho-social stages of development.

3. What is the principle behind Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory? Why did he said “ The
ego is not master in its own house”?

Answers:
Freud used the word ego to mean a sense of self, but later revised it to mean a set
of psychic functions such as judgment, tolerance, reality testing, control, planning,
defense, synthesis of information, intellectual functioning, and memory. The ego
separates out what is real.

4. From Vygotsky’s point of view, what factors in the environment influenced you to
learn a certain skill?

Answers:

Vygotsky concentrated more on children's immediate social and cultural environment

and their interactions with adults and peers. He argued that cognitive development
occurred first through children's immediate social interactions, and then moved to the
individual level as they began to internalize their learning.

5. What are the different stages of moral development according to Kohlberg? To what
principle each level operates? What drives or motivates a person’s actions and
decisions per stage?

Answers:

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 Kohlberg identified three distinct levels of moral reasoning: preconventional,
conventional, and postconventional.

6. For Bronfenbrenner, how do the bio ecological systems affect learner’s development?

Answers:

Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory focuses on the quality and context of the
child's environment. He states that as a child develops, the interaction within these
environments becomes more complex. This complexity can arise as the child's physical
and cognitive structures grow and mature.

7. How does your learning of these theories better assist you as an educator?

Answers:

An understanding of learning theories helps teachers connect to all different kinds of

students. Teachers can focus on different learning styles to reach different students,
creating teaching that focuses directly on student needs and aptitudes.

Learning Activities
Enriching what have you learned...

A. Matching Type. Match these quoted statements in Column A with the name of educational
psychologists in Column B.
Write the letter of the correct answer on the space provided before the number. (Use capital letter.)

__D___1. “The teacher must orient his work not on yesterday’s A. Sigmund Freud
Development in the child but on tomorrow’s.”
__F___2. “ Healthy children will not fear life but if their elders B. Urie Bronfenbrenner
have integrity enough not to fear death.”
__E___3. “Right action tends to be defined in terms of general C. Jean Piaget
individual rights and standards that have been critically
examined and agreed upon by the whole society.”
__C___4. “ The principal goal of education in the schools should be D. Lev Vygotsky
creating men and women who are capable of doing new
things, not simply repeating what other generations E. Lawrence Kohlberg
have done.”
__A___5. “The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh F. Erik Erikson
of its bulk above water.”
G. Robert Havighurst
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__B___6. “ We as a nation need to be reeducated about the ne-
cessary and sufficient conditions for making human beings
human. We need to be reeducated not as parents – but
as workers, neighbors, and friends; and as members of
the organizations, committees, boards – and, especially,
the informal networks that control our institutions and
thereby determine the conditions of life for our families
and their children. brenner-ecological-theory/

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