Developmental psychology

Vygotsky theorized that children develop their own ways to think through problems as they grow and develop. They gain mental abilities and use them in everyday activities like communicating. This is part of the awareness phase of the learning cycle. Children become aware of themselves, others and different things in their environment. As the child begins to explore their environment they are challenged as described by Vygotsky in the zone of proximal development and they begin to learn more…

Emily Bazelon discussed the national topic of bullying in her lecture, “Sticks and Stones” Defeating the Culture of Bullying”. Bazelon starts by defining bullying as a commonly misunderstood concept. She argues that not all conflicts between children are considered bullying. Bullying, Bazelon believes, should be a narrow term, which excludes drama or regular two-seeded conflict; consequently, she regards bullying as repetitive behavior that is a “campaign to make someone miserable”. In other…

Personal conflict The conflict I encountered was me and my husband fought about how to raise our daughter. I choose to raise her with a cause and effect method. Basically let her learn on her own and show her what I can. My husband want to start disciplining her and showing her right from wrong. Our daughter is seven month old, she can say four words. I think that makes her crazy smart but not smart enough to know the difference between inside and outside voices. My husband seem to think that…

Socialization is crucial to the growth of society. Socialization is the way that a culture is formed. For the Bushmen people, their way of socialization is crucial for their development. Their way of socializing may differ from my own, but it is not completely different. Socializing creates behaviors and values for every individual within a culture. Socialization for the traditional Bushmen people is the way in which they learn their own culture. Socialization starts in infancy. The Bushmen’s…

The Home of Human Sciences Annie Danielson a wise philosopher once said, “Home is where our story begins” and so our story will begin. Home is anywhere a person can be themselves and can feel comfortable there without feeling pressured. When Human Science majors think of their home at Iowa State they think of one building in particular, Palmer, the Human Development and Family Studies Building. Palmer is the utmost significant place on campus for Human Science majors because of the history of…

Introduction: Why is socialization important for child development? There are many types of child development. Three main area of child development are physical development, emotional development and social development. These three are of development are important for every child to be develop fully. One of the most important development areas is social development because socialization is important for children’s development of interacting with peers. Socialization does not begin at birth but…

child. In contrast, the paper “Children’s Development Through Sports Competition: Derivate, Adjustive, Generative, and Maladaptive Approaches” by Hong Suk Choi, Britton Johnson, and Young K. Kim brings to light many of the aspects that show the developmental benefit of sports competition. Contrary to what Statsky purports, sports team participation gives all children an unique opportunity to develop many positive aspects of living in adult society, because the essential lessons of team building…

Within the article, “Documenting Play” by Lynn Cohen, readers are able to understand how important play is in the early childhood setting. Cohen talks about situations that she has seen where children are participating in play and relating how those skills can help the child later in life. Cohen provides an example of play by giving the readers a dialogue of children playing doctor and patient. Cohen states, “Children are learning about the world of hospitals through play.” Most parents don’t…

skills. By the children engaging with materials, getting involved in different activities and working closely with other students this help meet the needs of the ever growing child. I found it is important to teach children to work together in the developmental process. Plants and gardening will do just that it also teaches the students about learning through doing, plants and gardening will help to…

We talked to the teacher and said that we hoped we could pick up the group from their classroom after we had set up the room after discussion with Ann. The group shared their break and seemed in harmony. The group dynamic changed after Andie went in and asked for his music, in which Helen and Julia’s energy went down. I introduced an elastic cloth for warm-up by telling them that it is utilized to help them engage with each other without harming. Calvin did not join in as Helen and Julia did…