T-Berry Brazelton (Thomas Berry Brazelton) is a well known pediatrician, author, and clinical professor of pediatrics emeritus at Harvard Medical School. He was born May 10, 1918 and is still alive to this day at the age of 96. He was born in Waco, Texas, to Thomas Berry Brazelton and Pauline (Battle) Brazelton. Brazelton wanted to become a pediatrician at a very young age. He used to babysit as a little boy during family reunions and parties. After babysitting, he knew he wanted to be pediatrician by the 6th grade leaving behind his other choice or career of becoming a veterinarian.
Brazelton attended many schools throughout his life. He attended a prep school in Alexandria, Virginia (Episcopal High School), after that he attended New Jersey’s Princeton University, following the pre-medical curriculum. While he was in Princeton he enjoyed acting a in a few number of college theatre productions. Brazelton was then considering of accepting a role on Broadway. However his parents did not like the idea of him accepting the role in Broadway. His parents said if he’d wish for them to pay for medical school in the future he would have to focus on his pre-medical studies. With an offer like that from Brazelton took his parents advice, leaving behind Broadway and concentrate in pre-medical school. Brazelton received his A.B. from Princeton in 1940, then he continued to earn his M.D. from the College of Physicians and surgeons at New York City’s Columbia University. After, that he did his internship through Columbia University, at Roosevelt Hospital. Then he served the United States Naval Reserve for a year. By 1945, Brazelton began a medical residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. His training as a pediatrician began in...
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...tals. We could say he is a very lucky person because many pediatricians don’t get this far with their theories.
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Although more than ten years can pass prior to the moment one first calls oneself a pediatrician, the hard work and dedication pays off when one saves the first life a helpless child. Throughout the long process of applying for school after school, obtaining scholarship after scholarship, and proving one’s medical skill with each and every exam, one must feel true bliss when grasping the newly received medical license in one’s hands. A career in pediatrics will allow one to save the lives of young people who haven’t yet truly lived.
Erick Erickson has made a huge contribution to the field of psychology with his developmental theory. Like Sigmund Freud, Erickson also saw that humans developed within stages of their life. With this he developed his eight psychosocial stages. Born on June 2, 1902 in Frankfort, Germany to a Jewish mother, Karla Abrahamsen and his biological father Valdemar Isidor Salomonsen. There isn’t much information on Erickson’s father because before he was even born his father abandoned his mother. Instead in 1905 his mother married Dr. Theodor Homberger who was also at the time Erickson’s pediatrician. Throughout Erickson’s youth he struggled with his identity because there wasn’t a father figure around his youth, Erickson never really knew
Well as we all know Jean Piaget was an very important person in our history. Piaget was born August, 9th 1896 Piaget died of unknown causes in September , 16 1986 they would like to think he died of old age. He was born to Arthur Piaget and Rebecca Jackson in Neuchatel, Switzerland. His mother was a very kind and energetic woman but she did have small temper problems and it made family life very hard in the household of Piaget’s family. His mother’s mental disorder is one of the main things used to inspire Piaget’s desire for the cognitive thinking of the mind. He also became interested in pathological psychology during this time. His father was a very well dedicated man with his writings of medieval literature. At just the age of 11 Piaget was already starting his career as a researcher, because he had recently wrote a short paper on an albino sparrow. Shortly after that he continued to study natural sciences and also received his Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Neuchatel in 1918.
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I read this book in 5th grade and still remember it as if I read the book yesterday. Little did I know, back then… that this was the first small step to what lead to my inspiration in choosing a future career. The motivation Peg received from Dr. Bevis was similar to that I received from Dr. Wayne, my pediatrician, when I would get sick and visit his office.
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Children’s development grows in developmental stages and is also contributed by their own cultural settings. Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky both contributed to the understanding of children’s psychology. Piaget and Vygotsky have theories of development that I agree with. Piaget’s theory was that children go through four different stages during their development. He believed in the influence of learning from others (Woolfolk, 43). I compare my cousin Jayel to the chart that Piaget has created. According to Piaget’s Chart, Jayel is in the sensorimotor stage because he is within the age of 0-2 years old. The baby is learning through his senses of seeing, hearing and even touching. He has even begun to imitate the people around him as well. Jayel
Smith P.J., Cowie, H., & Blades, M. (2003). Understanding Children’s Development (4th ed.). London, UK: Blackwell Publishing. (Chapter 15 covers the work of Vygotsky, Bruner and Call)
B.F. Skinner was born of a father who was a lawyer who worked for the local railroad and a stay at home mother in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania. Skinner’s parents were Presbyterians and were of the middle working class background. Skinner went to the local school in town where both of his parents attended as children themselves. Skinner read for pleasure as a student because he described his father as “a sucker for book salesman.” Many have spoken with Skinner about his childhood, which he describes as “a happy one.” Skinner labeled his upbringing and home life as “warm and stable.” During Skinner’s youth, he also showed a high interest in building things. He built wagons, model airplanes, and other makeshift items, which exemplified his mechanical intellect.
Diffley’s role as a pediatrician is assisting, supervising, and coping with children from infants to twenty-one years old with measles, mumps, respiratory problem, respiratory, stomach infection, acute immune disease, bronchitis, and other infectious disease. Meeting, and communicating, interacting with families with different culture to help them understand parental education has to be the best part of his job. The most difficult part of his job is when he encounter children who are terminally ill. Being a family man himself, it has been always a challenge for him on how to deal and how to tell these patients how sick they are. Volunteering in different facilities, offices, summer internship jobs, or even joining medical mission specifically in underdeveloped countries are some of his advices to someone who wants to pursue and be successful in this job. He also suggest to have good test and note taking skills in college because it is such a fast phase environment to learn. The skill to summarize and take notes assist students to understand and analyze the context and remains in the long term memory. Being a doctor is not just a job that you get paid for, it is a devotion to mankind where your goal is to serve as a full time public servant. It is an unlimited commitment to deliver
Raised in different cultures all over Europe and the United States, four theorists have become world renowned for their theories of child development. As we review and learn their methods, the hope is to be able to apply them to everyday life by recognizing and utilizing them in the classroom setting.
Wertlieb, Donald. "Child." World Book Advanced. World Book, 2011. Web. 16 Aug. 2011.Retrieved from http://www.worldbookonline.com/advanced/article?id=ar110700&st=middle+childhood+development&sc=1#h4
Many researchers have written about child development, but none are quite as well known as Jean Piaget and Lawrence Kohlberg. Jean Piaget’s cognitive development theory and Lawrence Kohlberg’s moral development theory have been essential for researchers to gain a better understanding of child development. While these theories are unique in explaining different types of child development, they have many similarities and differences as well.
No matter who you are I believe that everyone will go through stages in their life that will get them to where they are on today. I am a person who has a very interesting story; this is the first time it will be told in full. We were asked to use Erik Erikson’s theory of development as a guideline to telling the story of our lives. At first I was very nervous; however, I soon realized that this would be a fun task. Erik Erikson has eight stages of Development (Zastrow and Kirst-Ashman). I will be walking you though my life using each one of his stages drawing out the map of my life. Within my life I have had some very interesting encounters. I have been through foster care, abuse, rape, molestation, starvation, adoption, depression, and success. Although my life may not be perfect, I believe that I have overcome these battles and become the person that I am on today. I will be talking about a few crises, milestones, and some of the people that were set in place to help me and or hurt me.
B.F. Skinner was born in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania on March 20th, 1904. He had described his child hood as “warm and stable.” His younger brother had died at an early age of a cerebral hemorrhage. Skinner as a child had a significant fear of hell which eventually led him to turn towards atheism. His fear did not indicate that he was at all mentally un- stable. One of his most fond childhood activities was inventing things. A skill that became useful in his later psychological experiments. He was extremely fond of the outdoors and of attending school. His Father was a lawyer and his mother was a very intelligent woman who spent her days as a homemaker. Skinner had an enjoyable childhood.