Development and Theories Related to Adolescence Daphne Holstin PS 220-01 September 3‚ 2012 Professor Smith Development and Theories Related to Adolescence Adolescences is the period of development between the ages of 12 to 18 years of age. During this period many physical changes begin both boys and girls as they grow rapidly and enter puberty. Rapid physical growth differs in boys and girls; boys usually start physical growth approximately 2 years after the girls do. Girls begin growth
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childhood education. These developmental goals are: language‚ intellectual‚ personality‚ social‚ moral‚ aesthetic and creative development of preschool age children. “At the center of any literature program for children is the literature itself and its contribution to the development of children’s imaginations” (Giorgis & Glazer‚ 2008‚ pg. 27). Reading to children in activities strengthens the developments of these goals. When choosing literature to read to young children‚ there is a criterion for
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circumference‚ and leg length in relation to body height. Motor development • Motor dev becomes much smoother and more coordinated. • Children gain greater control over their bodies and can sit and attend for longer periods of time. • Their lives should be activity-oriented and very active. • Increased myelination of the CNS is reflected in improved motor skills. • Improved fine motor skills appear in the form of handwriting development. • Boys are usually better at gross motor skills‚ girls at fine
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Understand how children from birth-5 years learn through play Piaget Jean Piaget (1896-1980) was one of the first psychologist to study the cognitive and language development of children. When working on their theory Piaget had discovered that children discover and think in different ways to adults‚ this was then how Piaget carried out observations to find out how children develop their reasoning and thinking skills. Stage and approximate age Description of age How this influences play 0-2 years sensorimotor
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exemplified in Gordy‚ Chris‚ Teddy‚ and Vern throughout the movie. The four kids are identical to one stage each of Jean Piaget’s stages of cognitive development‚ Lawrence Kohlberg’s stages of moral development‚ and Erik Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development. By the end of the movie‚ you see a character change in Gordy and Chris Gordy The stage of development theorized by Piaget that is most identical to Gordy is the formal operational stage. During this stage‚ children develop abstract thoughts and
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Woldcom’s Whitleblower: 1-which of Kohlberg’s six stages of moral development would you say that Cynthia cooper had reached? Explain. She has reached the universal ethical orientation in which the meaning of right is explained by the decision of conscience in accord with self-chosen ethical principles appealing the logical comprehensiveness and universality. This stage is also concerned of universal principal of justice‚ equality of human rights will respect for the dignity of human beings as
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father from doing further harm‚ and leaves his family in the process. Sarty Snopes desire is to break away from the moral deficiency of his family life and live life with some resemblance of normalcy even at the expense of never seeing his family again. A growing body of evidence‚ suggest that humans have a moral sense from the very start of life and family does not instill this moral compass from the very start of life. His father was a man of little or no education who had developed
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Cognitive development "addresses the expansion of a child’s intellect or mental abilities. [It also] involves recognizing‚ processing‚ and organizing information and then using it appropriately" (Martoz pg. 39). Cognitive development uses mental strategies of classifying‚ sorting‚ exploring‚ depicting‚ and manipulating. Piaget’s contribution to the cognitive domain holds that "cognitive development is an ongoing process of interaction between the child and his perceptual view of objects or events
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Developmental approach to Adolescent Morality According to Kohlberg‚ moral reasoning is the ethical behavior. Morality is an idea that is primeval‚ unparalleled and social as the adolescent transits through various stages. Kohlberg talks about three basic levels of moral level‚ the pre conventional level or pre moral level‚ the conventional and the post conventional or autonomous level. As the adolescent graduates from childhood into adulthood the moral thinking also develops and in some individuals it brings
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Cognitive Development Theory‚ Erikson’s Psychosocial Theory‚ and Kohlberg’s Development of Moral Reasoning Theory. In Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development‚ he develops a theory of cognitive development that occurs in stages from persons under two years of age through age 14. Piaget’s theory relates to the cognitive development of a human person. In Erik Erickson’s Theory of Psychosocial Development‚ Erikson describes a theory consisting of eight stages of psychosocial development. This is
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