Assignment 2: Human Development There are seven stages a human moves through during his or her life span. These stages include infancy‚ early childhood‚ middle childhood‚ adolescence‚ early adulthood‚ middle adulthood and old age. Infancy is recognized as the stage of life from a human ’s birth up until he or she learns how to speak: generally until the age of one or two. During this stage‚ the child transitions from a dependent toddler to a relatively active child; he or she is typically
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Stages of critical thinking How to move to the next stage Obstacles to moving to the next stage EXAMPLE: The Unreflective Thinker Examine my thinking to identify problems that affect my thinking. Deceiving myself about the effectiveness of my thinking The Challenged Thinker Figuring out that my thinking is causing me serious problems. Realizing that my thinking is not as perfect as I believe and develop awareness of how thinking operates for good or bad. The Beginning Thinker Making attempts
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Preoperational stage- Piaget’s second stage‚ lasting from 2 to 7 years of age‚ during which time children begin to represent the world with words‚ images and drawings. In this stage‚ they also form stable concepts and being to reason. At the same time‚ their cognitive world is dominated by egocentrism and magical beliefs. In Piaget’s theory‚ reversible mental actions that allow children to do mentally what they formerly did physically. Piaget’s first substage of preoperational thought‚ in which
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psychosocial crisis stages (syntonic v dystonic) | Freudian psycho- sexual stages | life stage / relationships / issues | basic virtue and second named strength (potential positive outcomes from each crisis) | maladaptation / malignancy(potential negative outcome - one or the other - from unhelpful experience during each crisis) | 1. Trust v Mistrust | Oral | infant / mother / feeding and being comforted‚ teething‚ sleeping | Hope and Drive | Sensory Distortion / Withdrawal | 2. Autonomy v Shame
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The process of prenatal development occurs in three main stages. The first two weeks after conception are known as the germinal stage; the third through the eighth week are known as the embryonic period; and the time from the ninth week until birth is known as the fetal period. The germinal stage begins with conception‚ when the sperm and egg cell unite in one of the two fallopian tubes. The fertilized egg‚ known as zygote then moves toward the uterus‚ a journey that can take up to a week to complete
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Developmental Stages of a Toddler Kim Wilson-Mister ECE 332: Child Development Elizabeth Golen Johnson 4/17/2010 During the toddler years from ages one to three‚ young children want to become independent. “I do it” or “Me do it.” With gentle consistent care toddlers can learn to trust others. Being a toddler can be fun and at times one of the most trying stages for both child and the parents. Toddlers are now developing out of infancy and learning important language‚ cognitive‚ social‚ emotional
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Erikson’s Stages of Development Stage|Ages|Basic Conflict|Summary| Infancy|1 to 2 years|Trust vs. Mistrust|The child‚ well - handled‚ nurtured‚ and loved‚ develops trust and security and a basic optimism. Badly handled‚ s/he becomes insecure and mistrustful. | Early Childhood|2-3 years|Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt|Children will begin to develop their feeling of personal control over physical skills. This can cause feelings of autonomy; however failure makes them feel shameful and doubtful.|
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developmental stages. Each of these stages are very important for growing babies. Emotional development is when the baby is recognizing and expressing feelings‚ Intellectual development is the process where a baby starts making sense of his world. When a baby starts using their motor skills‚ and watching you is when they are going through Physical development‚ but when the infant starts to express themselves and interact with others is when they are going through the social developmental stage. These very
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language acquisition; social‚ personality‚ and emotional development; and self-concept and identity formation. Developmental psychology includes issues such as the extent to which development occurs through the gradual accumulation of knowledge versus stage-like development‚ or the extent to which children are born with innate mental structures‚ versus learning through experience. Many researchers are interested in the interaction between personal characteristics‚ the individual’s behavior‚ and environmental
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Task 1 Describe and explain the stages of children and young people development. Go through such areas as physical‚ intellectual‚ social‚ emotional‚ behavioural and moral development. At the beginning‚ I would like to introduce the best-known theories of development‚ because it is useful to know how psychologists and scientists describe the stages of children and young people development. In developmental psychology‚ we have many types of theories. At the broadest level‚ we have three grand
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