Child development stages

The stage of adolescence is categorized by being 12 to 18 years old and psychosocial maturity the individual exemplifies. A developmental delay that is evidenced by the inability of an individual’s needs to be met can be identified by using Erikson’s stages of development (Groark, McCall, McCarthy, Eichner, & Gee, 2013). For the adolescent stage the task requires children to find their own personal identity separate from their peers and parents. This achievement of identity will lead to…

currently still in high school and has yet to be employed or have responsibilities besides school, I felt he was still an adolescent and just entering emerging adulthood. In this essay, I will go over his physical, cognitive, social and emotion development through my process of conducting this interview with him. At the age…

relationships have a big impact on a child’s future social skills and behaviors. The child learns to accept other people early and they also gain some skills in how to behave. A child who is able to get along with others early on and have quality interactions is most likely to be able to socialize later in life. Middle childhood relations provide a more deeper understanding of friendship. It also opens the doors for the child to start having negative influences from their peers. The friendships…

their thought at different stages, it explained how children and adult change over time. People start to act and think differently when they are in the different age that is because of their experience. Any challenge, problem and opportunity can change a person. This paper focuses on teenagers, such as Holden Caulfield and the challenges he is facing, how he got over his problems. The psychological concepts that apply to Holden are punishment, formal operational stage, and identity vs. role…

Erikson came up with eight stages of cognitive development that strictly focused on the nurture aspect of life and environmental influence. The stages were formatted with the idea that each one had specific needs that needed to be met in order to advance to the next. Social behavior is observed to have a better understanding of developmental age in correspondence to numerical age. Erikson’s first developmental stage is Trust vs Mistrust, which encompasses birth to 18 months…

better perception about who she actually is and how the impact of events has shaped her into the woman that she is today. My mom is 50 years of age – according to Erikson’s Stages of Psychosocial Development, that puts her in the middle adulthood (generativity vs. stagnation) category. I am 20 years old, therefore my Eriksonian stage is the early adulthood, which puts me in the intimacy vs. isolation group. Since my mom is a little over 500 miles away; this interview was over the telephone taken…

Mohammad Khan My friend just had a healthy baby girl. My friend has noticed certain movements the baby does, and they are very curious about how does the baby know how to do these movements. As I am taking a human development class and also have learned about infants reflexes, I could help them find out why the infant does what they do. The movements the infants do are called primitive reflex behavior. They are involuntary reflexes. Our lower part of the brain is what controls…

infant and toddler room. The age from one to three is the toddler years, which is very exciting and challenging for parents and caretakers. The language and interpersonal skills are being developed rapidly during this stage along with the motor, cognitive and physical developments. There are changes that can be noticed in the toddler such as the gaining of independence and struggling with separation. (Sensening, A., 2016) When I had arrived at the daycare, the children were washing their hands…

Childhood and adulthood are two crucial and defining stages in human development. These phases initiate and contribute to most of the physiological, psychological changes of a person as well social and intellectual aspects. They are both equally important since in childhood there is physical growth and during this stage, the basis for personality and character are formed which are later on consolidated during adolescence and adult life. On the other hand, adulthood encompasses building a family,…

changes. The development processes not only requires specific nutritional interventions but are also characterized by very specific growth changes (Berk, & Churchill, 1996). Jean Piaget, biologist and psychologist developed different stages of intellectual, cognitive and behavioral development from infant to adult age. This development stages are established on the basis of behavioral, cognitive and intelligence changes that are observed during these ages. These stages are named as Piaget…