Differentiate Between Authoritative, Authoritarian, and Permissive Parents and Explain How

question 12

Essay

Differentiate between authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive parents and explain how each type of parent might approach a child that does not want to go to sleep at night.

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Definitions:

Conservation

Understanding that physical properties do not change when appearance changes, crucial in cognitive development, repeating definition with emphasis on its role in cognitive science.

Preoperational Stage

A phase in Jean Piaget's cognitive development theory where children from ages 2 to 7 engage in symbolic play and struggle with logic and taking the perspective of others.

Three Mountains Task

A cognitive development test designed by Jean Piaget to assess children's ability to understand and appreciate different perspectives and viewpoints.

Formal-Operational Thought

The final stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development, characterized by the ability to think abstractly and logically.