Of the five theories discussed in the “Recent Theoretical Perspective” section pages 21-29, select three and explain how each regards children as active contributors to their own development. Information Processing Theory The theory of information processing as related to child development specifies that children’s minds are like very sophisticated computers. Children can take information given them, input it, code it, transform it and organize it, then utilize that information as a behavior, thus making their response the output.…
PSYCH 212- Introduction to Developmental Psychology will provide me with some background knowledge of how people grow and change throughout life. I believe this class will provide greater personal insight for me, and can help me learn a lot about children, and be able to interact with them which will help me if I decide to become a child custody lawyer. PSYCH 221- Introduction to Social Psychology is a branch of psychology that is concerned with how social influence us and how people interact with others. Understanding social psychology can be useful for m as a lawyer for so many reasons. for example, social psychology can help me better understand how groups impact others choices and actions.…
According to Erik Erikson (1971) developmental theory, human growth and development evolves throughout a person’s lifespan ranging from birth until death. One certainly in life is change and growth as we adapt to the elements of life. During this constant growth and development, one establishes his/her identity and personality shaping their existence. There are many external and internal factors that shape each development stage from youth throughout adulthood such as the following: socioeconomic status, location, culture, spiritual beliefs, and our basic human need. A society change so does our individual needs.…
Developmental psychology is a branch of psychology that deals with the factors that affect how a person grows and develops physically, mentally, and socially with age. The human body is constantly changing and adapting to new emotions and surroundings, but the foundations of how you respond to outside stimuli goes back to childhood and infancy. The aspect of nature and nurture also affect a person 's development and how they will respond in certain situations. The aspect of nature deals more with a person’s biological factors and nurture deals with how the person was raised, how they learned, and what they have gone through. Early childhood is when a person starts to develop an ability to think, morals, language, social patterns, and they start…
I believe that the perspective that best explains the human behavior is developmental perspective. This perspective combines heredity along with our environment, allowing us to get a broader view of what could possibly be changing someone’s behavior. As stated in our book, “development can be seen in predictable processes as growth, puberty, and menopause”. This kind of perspective lets people see predictable changes. For example, when a child grows up he or she will start to act differently due to the changes of his or her surroundings.…
Systemic cognitive development and family dysfunction There are many theories’ that address human development. Piaget’s cognitive theory was “expanded and modified by Allen Ivey” (Nugent & Jones, pg. 80). Piaget’s theory relates “mostly to childhood and adolescence, Ivey added another stage that addresses dialectic/systematic stage” (Nugent & Jones, pg. 81).…
"Tuesday 's with Morrie" and Developmental Theories The movie "Tuesday 's with Morrie" opens one 's eye to the reality of the developmental psychology theories by Erikson, Marcia, and Kubler-Ross. In the movie you fallow the perspectives of Mitch and Morrie the two main characters. These characters experience multiple stages of each of these theories. Erikson 's theory and its later stages, which start at young adulthood, were very prominent in the movie "Tuesday 's with Morrie".…
The following essay will focus on the film Boyhood (2014) in attempts to explain how three significant events in the main character’s life story, Mason, exemplify developmental changes in the lifespan. There will be references to three developmental domains, cognitive development in terms of information processing, conceptual resources and perceptual skill, physical development referring to growth in the process of puberty and psychosocial development being the expansion of the personality, including the gain of social attitudes and skills particularly according to Erikson theory, the battle of identity vs role diffusion (Sigelman, 2013, p. 38). Boyhood is a story, based over a 12-year period, of growing up captured through the eyes of a…
Developmental Age: Growth and Development According to Erickson’s developmental theory, patient is in Middle adulthood in the Generativity vs. Stagnation stage. Erikson argued that when adults focus too exclusively on the dependence of their children, they may forget about the importance of their own dependence on the next generation (Jensen, 2014, p.166). During this stage adults suffer from changes in their physical state such as andropause and some of the health concerns at this point are health screening such as prostate – specific – antigen (PSA), stress reduction, healthy lifestyle strategies and adjustment to life transitions.…
Cognitive development is all about the way a person thinks. According to these theorists, Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky, David Elkind, and Benjamin Bloom , there are many different ways of thinking. Jean Piaget believed development occurred in four different stages of thinking. He considers the stages to be universal as the individual develops throughout their environments.…
Richard Peet and Elaine Hartwick’s book Theories of Development explains about Development as Modernization in chapter 4. In the beginning of this chapter, Peet and Hartiwick provided history of approaches to modern economic progress through explaining about Naturalism and Rationalism. Herbert Spencer clarified about Naturalism which is if there were great environments, these were able to create increased economic and make better politics and well supported societies. Also, they explained about Rationalism which is the opposite of naturalism, so Rationalism assumes that social institution and human behavior to be founded on natural bases (123). After this, they explored how theorists identified theories of modernization, five historical stage…
There are five major perspectives on child development: psychoanalytic, behavioral, cognitive, context, and evolutionary. Psychoanalytic perspective is the theory of personality developed by Freud that focuses on repression and unconscious forces and includes the concepts of infantile sexuality, resistance, transference, and division of the psyche into the Id, ego, and superego. Freud was also the first one who believed that all human beings were born with the desire towards hunger, sex and aggression. The Id is present at birth at represents unconscious desires, the ego is conscious and balances the needs of the id with societal demands, and the superego is the moral guide. Freud broke this development up into five stages.…
Erikson believes that one’s identity changes constantly due to new experience and information acquired from interactions with others over the years. Erikson also believes that a series of successes and a feeling of competence motivates behavior and actions (Cherry, n.d.). On the other hand, if a person handles a stage poorly it will result in a feeling of inadequacy. In each stage, the potential for personal development is high, but so is the potential for…
Human development presents a set of guiding concepts that are described and explained with different theories. One may recognize five developmental theories, with distinct perspectives, while looking over the course of a person’s lifespan. One theory is the psychoanalytical theory. This is a theory of human development that starts in childhood and claims that unconscious desires and intentions, motivate human behavior. One may use this principle to comprehend mental functions and stages of growth and development.…
Introduction Sigmund Freud, was the founder of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic theories. These theories are based on the belief that developmental changes occur because of the influence of internal drives and emotions on behavior. In this assignment we have to briefly explain, how does the psychosexual theory of development suggest, how parents must manage their children’s sexual drives during the first few crucial years of development? The Purpose of assignment is to evaluate whether the students are able to apply different concepts of psychosexual theory of development in daily life.…