Developmental psychology

During my time at Rivelon Elementary I experienced all five of the developmental domains, often tines within the same hour. Social development is probably one of the main developmental domains I experienced while I was placed in the library at Rivelon Elementary. Most of these children were learning how to be fair to each other. For instance, while I was at the school one of my responsibilities was to run the school store. Children were rewarded every week “tiger bucks” for reaching reading…

Intergenerational Interview Paper Introduction The person that I interviewed was my mother, Catherine Scurlark. I thought I knew everything there was to know about her, but after this interview I feel like I have a much 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)…

seem unimportant and little, these different types of play activities can lead to a child’s developmental areas being affected. A child’s cognitive level of play is affected when the child plays with others or even with themselves. There are four specific…

Family centres really help out different varieties of families and build a partnership with parents, for example foreign families or single parents. They support them and build a relationship with the parents involved in the child’s life. Communication is a main barrier for family centres and their children. However this has improved a vast amount during the years by providing translators or having welcome packs in different languages. Hewison (2004) suggested that language was an issue of…

thoughts and experiences, separate assessments must be undertaken for each child. The framework for assessments is a holistic evidence-based approach showing a balance outlook of the child’s world by concentrating on three key areas namely; child’s developmental needs, such as whether the child’s self-care skills reflect their age, parenting capacity, including the caregiver’s ability to respond with emotional warmth; and family and environmental factors, like housing and overcrowding (DOH,…

Emotional and Social Development in Early Childhood Homework Two Children experience many changes during socio-emotional development in their early years. They begin to develop the person they will become as an adult and everything builds on top of itself to form a personality. Hereditary and environment come together to build the intricate design that is a human being. And through everyday interactions, children increase their social skills, their capacity to feel emotion, and the ability to…

The movie “Boyhood” represents a seemingly perfect depiction of child development in a boy from ages 6 to 18. This movie is very relatable to viewers because the experiences of both Mason and his sister Stephanie are experiences every child faces from childhood to adolescence. Over the course of the movie you are able to analyze normative development in several different aspects of Mason’s life, as well as some non-normative events. More importantly, viewers are able to take notice on the…

Erik Erikson, the developer of the psychosocial theory approach to human development, believed that people follow a sequence of stages of development from birth to death. “These development stages include tasks that result from biological forces and age related social or cultural expectations (Ashford & LeCroy, 2010, p.99)”. Within his psychological theory, Erikson identified eight psychosocial stages of human development which are equipped with “appropriate physical, emotional, and cognitive…

Samantha Perez is four years old who has been attending day care since she was two years old. According to her mom, Samantha’s daily routine is to go to day care in the morning until 5:00 pm. Samantha lives with her mom and older brother in an apartment in Miami Lakes. Although Samantha was born in the United States, her mom is Cuban and works as a therapist, and her dad, who was born in this country is an electrical contractor. She comes from a Catholic family. She is really close to her…

cases in which parents are blamed or get in trouble because their children buy those things. Fourth reason is that giving children money can actually lower their motivation. According to Carol S. Dweck, PhD, the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, rewarding a child for getting good grades have its risks. In her video “Dangers of rewarding achievements”, she…