Adolescence and Adulthood PSY 202 September 11, 2011 Many changes happen during the transition from adolescence to adulthood. Physical changes, moral changes and social changes are all happening at the same time during these very important adolescent years. All of these changes come together and create individual adults that contribute in their own way to society. According to Feldman (2010), the psychosocial development stage of adolescence is a search for one’s own identity. This stage is a learning process on how to consider others and not be only self-aware.
This development in children includes both emotional and social development. From infants to adults, children are constantly adapting and learning about the environment and the world surrounding them (Maggi & Irwin, 2008). As a result, they begin to understand how to co-exist with others and the world. It is very early on when the child develops a certain personality depending on the type of upbringing and environment provided. Children do develop differently depending on their genetic makeup and environment, parents and guardians can play a huge role to ensure that the child grows up to be an emotionally mature individual.
These factors are taken into account in all areas of development, such as; physical, emotional, intellectual and even social development. We grow from the moment we’re conceived, until the moment we die, so the rate of development is classed as a ‘lifelong’ process. This rate of development differs for each specific individual, what one child can do at 10months another may not be able to do until 18months. If a Child is completely behind in his/her rate of development then they may have delays in certain aspects of their growth. This is why we monitor a Child’s developments- all 4 factors; physical, intellectual, emotional and social, whilst they’re at School, to ensure that any special needs are met, including contacting any additional help or contacting professionals.
ZHENG 1 Tianai Zheng HDFS 129 10/23/14 In this paper, I’m going to compare Infants and Toddlers with School Ages. And my topic is cognitive development. Rapid changes will occur during infant and will continue through adolescence and later in life. Different period of life time would have different levels of thinking. So I’m going to discussion Erikson’s cognitive development stage at different ages.
(For full explanation on schemas, conservation, assimilation and accommodation and explanations of terminology see appendix 2). He put forward a theory of cognitive developmental stages and theorised that children would operate at a certain level/stage (this would also apply to adults in the Formal Operations stage). His particular insight was the role of maturation (growing up) in children's increasing capacity to understand their world: they cannot undertake certain tasks until they are psychologically mature enough to do so. He put forward a theory of 4 stages of development: Sensori-motor Birth – 2 years Preoperational 2 – 7 Years Concrete Operational 7 – 12 Years Formal Operational 12 Years and up (See appendix 1 for detailed description of four stages) Example of sensorimotor and contradiction of Piaget’s theory Children can be more cognitively skilled than Piaget recognised. For example, babies as young as four months appear to have a concept of object permanence and young children are capable of conservation if given meaningful context.
Life Span Development Robert Diaz 9/9/13 PSY/375 Shaun-Katherine Robles The human life is developed from the time a person is born until their death. However long (or short) a person's life span is, over time, they develop both physically and cognitively. Many psychological researchers look to see how a person develops and why. Prominent figures in psychology like Sigmund Freud and Jean Piaget, along with so many others, have spent good portions of their own lifespan trying to answer these questions and give a better picture of how a person develops throughout their entire lives. Both Piaget and Freud looked at development over a life span in stages.
Life Span Development The Childhood Years (ROUGH DRAFT) Erica The childhood years encompass the years of birth to preadolescence, zero to twelve years, respectively. There are major milestones that a child is experiencing during these early stages of life, thus making these the most important and formative years of a person’s life; from forming secure and healthy attachment during the infant years, which extends into the adult years, to developing their autonomy and independence in their toddler years. What children learn in these childhood years will determine the type of adult they will grow to be. This discussion will focus on the period between three to twelve years old. The preschool years, age three to five years, are the next step after toddlerhood.
Aging and Changes in Physical Appearance Barry Gentzel PSY 202 Instructor Newman June 17, 2012 Aging and Changes in Physical Appearance The science of psychology is quite unique, in that it covers so many aspects of the human body and the development covering many stages from birth through one’s entire lifetime until passing. The psychosocial development stage during adolescence is crucial for several reasons, examples of childhood discovery of role identity and personality traits exemplify the broad effects of this stage in future development, as well as peer pressure faced and the response to these, and the physical and cognitive changes involved in the social and physical aspects of late adulthood and the similarities in transition occurring during adolescence and late adulthood. The psychosocial development stage during adolescence is the stage during the course of development when we attempt to develop an understanding of ourselves and others and the world around us, which also includes Erickson’s theory of identity-versus-role-confusion stage where we try to discover our uniqueness, who we believe we are, our strengths, and the roles most suitable for our future—or our identity. (Feldman, 2010) During this stage in my life, I struggled in my search for identity, for there was no proper adult guidance. I was primarily exposed to abuse causing an abundance of confusion.
Life span Perspective The life span perspective of development The science of human development attempts to understand how and why an individual will change or remain the same over time (Berger, 2008). There are stages in life that begins with birth and infancy then continues to early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, adulthood, late adulthood, and finally the end of one’s life (Berger, 2008). If an individual lives a full lifetime, the stages mark different developments including physical, emotional, and psychological. Currently, there are five characteristics of development. First, multidirectional is a characteristic suggesting change occurs in every direction (Berger, 2008).
The Theory of Adult Learning: Andragogy James Bryant College 100 American Military University Karine Blackett The way people learned new things always interested me growing up. I knew as we grow up from children to adults the way we learn new things changes. The way we learn as adults is factored by a lot of things such as experiences we had over the years. I will be discussing the theory of adult learning. The term for this theory is andragogy.