Developmental psychology

he transferred to Shanavsky’s University to pursue his passion in “language, literature, art, and philosophy” (Smidt p9). Vygotsky turned his focus to psychology when he was 28 years old, and he died of tuberculosis at the age of 38 in 1934. During the last ten years of his life, he conducted “ a series of investigations in developmental psychology, pedagogy and psychopathology” (marx website). Vygotsky presented his language cognition development theory in his book Thought and Language, which…

PSYC 2314-50182 November 25, 2016 Linking Psychology A young adult named Lolita Bean, 28, shared some events throughout her adolescence during a brief interview on November 25, 2016. She is from Tulsa, Oklahoma and is currently pursuing a nursing degree from Texas Christian University. The purpose for the interview was to gather information about a developmental stage in the life of Ms. Bean and synthesis it to theories and concepts of developmental psychology. She shared topics that dealt with…

Many Research studies suggest that most children are being put into the schooling system at way to early of an age which turns them off school and contributes to poor testing results. There are also studies that show children who start a year or two later, in school, are more well prepared and get higher test scores than those children who start earlier. In a research study conducted by Erdal Kucuker, he states “It was concluded from the analysis that the children who started school when 73-84…

Erik Erikson was a theorist who discussed the concept of psychosocial developmental stages in human life. Significantly influenced by Freud, Erikson continued Freud theories concerning typography in personalities and structure. However unlike Freud Erikson does not discuss psychosexual stages. Erikson focused on ego psychology underlining the effects of society and culture, and conflicts within the ego itself. By resolving noticeably social crises the ego develops. Continuing Freudian theories…

sense of individual identity is said to not be of utmost importance for males. Knowing this, it is safe to assume that he probably was not led away from this bad habit of intensely following others for direction growing up. The research article “Developmental Characteristics of Young Adolescents” by Micki Caskey and Vincent A. Anfara, Jr. states that “Gender affects how adolescents approach moral dilemmas––males view moral issues through a justice lens and females use an interpersonal care lens”…

Introduction What makes children develop morals? Do the environments children are surrounded by determine are a moral compass or is it a trait that we as humans are naturally born with? Moral development is defined as a process through which children develop proper attitudes and behaviors toward others in society. These behaviors can be built on social norms, cultural norms, rules, and laws (health of children). Kohlberg’s is a well know psychologist who took Jean Piaget’s theories and…

My field is education, specifically, birth through kindergarten and elementary education. Education has had a number of issues in the past; some of them still exist today. To narrow my focus, I looked at a number of articles, online magazines, and electronic journals. These included topics such preschool to kindergarten transitions, teacher assistants and driver’s education classes, being a teacher in your mid-career, school shootings, and using technology in the classroom. The vast majorities…

because she earned her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. She is currently a professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. Her research looks at the structure of families and the impact that it has on the child. She was also involved in the editing of many developmental textbooks. The author is credible because she had done research and she is involved in the making of textbooks. Also in this article McLoyd cites Elder in her research which connects the two…

Jean Piaget’s theory of cognitive development consists of 4 stages. These 4 stages are sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operations. Sensorimotor is the stage that a child goes through from birth up to the age of 2. The child learn coordination of senses with motor response, sensory curiosity about the world, language used for demands and cataloging, and object permanence developed. The preoperational stage is when the child becomes 2 years of age and proceeds until…

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