| The 2 main principles | 1. Factual knowledge is important for learning and developing skills.
2. Practice and effort are important for learning |
| Cognitive development | Suggests that problems should be new and achievable but also require some effort.
Need to aware of the child's stage of development and put in factors of weather children understand the task. |
| physical development | Related to brain processing to motor skills (muscles movement)
Build a physical skill you must practice movement in order to become automatic.
Need to be age appropriate and suitable depending on their stage of development, conscious effort must be applied to further develop the motor skills. |
| Social development | Important aspect for the child is to take on someone else's viewpoint, which happens at 18, this is known as decentration, meaning separate yourself from the world and take a different view.
Children learn most of their behaviour by observing and imitating others. This is called social learning.
Impulsive behaviour needs to controlled, can be achieved by an organised environment, can develop behaviour which can help to build up friendships.
Children need to engage in activities that require self-regulation, means they can control their own behaviour and not be influenced with others. |
| A weakness | There is no supporting evidence, uses other theories to combinde, making it hard for him to prove that he is correct and the theory cannot be verified. |
| A strength | Can be applied to a real life setting to promote child's development. Challenges Dweck's theory because he relies on the genes which Dweck didn't agree with. Also is reductionist |
