CLD 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Recapitulation Theory, Motivation, Theory Of Multiple Intelligences

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Early Childhood Studies
• Course: CLD 111
• Professor: Aurelia Di Santo

Document Summary

exercising for future roles to become a mom: recapitulation theory (way of leaning about history. Try to explain why and how people play: two categories: Children act out feelings and work through challenges through roles switching and repetition. Ex: child wants cookie but parent wont buy so at school they play baking and makes cookies so they became the adult. Master skills quickly by repetition like walking: cognitive developmental theories. Play is a venue for children to use materials, interact with people, and build knowledge about the world they live in. Ex: child play firefighter, start to learn what they do: psychoanalytic theories. Constructivist theory: originated in the 20th century, jean piaget, cognitive developmental theory. Focus on how we obtain knowledge and understanding. Piaget (1970) suggest children participate in three distinct stages of play: functional/ sensorimotor play (birth - 2)