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[email protected] of this document is illegal1 | P a g e CHILD DEVELOPMENT QUESTION ONE Determine (settle or decide), Discuss (Debate - explore solutions / consider argument) & Evaluate (Judge/ determine worth or quality) Vygotskys Sociocultural Theory & the =nformation-Processing Approach Humans = COMPLEX. Change physically, mentally and emotionally. No single theory can explain development. 1. Continuous Development: Process = add more information to what we have already Skills born with. Violin = practice (day by day practice - develop their ability) 2. Discontinuous Development: Process = new ways understanding & responding emerge at specific times. Child moves through series of developmental stages until = highest level of functioning. Stages - qualitative changes in thinking, feeling and behaving that specify periods of development. E.g. Crawl to Walk 3. One course of development or many? Universal Development = Stage theorists assume that all children follow the same sequence of development. Any differences are called variations from the fundamental development process.