Moral absolutism

Later Adolescence Autonomy from Parents People ages eighteen to twenty-four are considered later adolescence. One of the key factors in later adolescence is achieving autonomy from parents, which is the gateway to adulthood. Autonomy from parents is achieved when a later adolescent can regulate their own behavior and no longer rely on parents for decision making. One of the main ways this autonomy is achieved is through leaving the family home. The age at which a person leaves their family home…

The Cultural Dimension Theory is a theory that Professor Geert Hofstede developed beginning in the 1970’s. The theory analyzes the connections between communications and behaviors between cultures. The original theory consisted of four dimensions, and over the years it expanded to six dimensions. Power Distance Index, Uncertainty Avoidance Index, Individualism Versus Collectivism, Masculinity Versus Femininity, Long Term Orientation Versus Short Term Orientation, and Indulgence Versus…

Child developmental ideas: 1. Psychoanalytic ideas (Sigmund and Erik Erikson) 2. Friendly developmental ideas (Bowlby) 3. Cognitive ideas (Jean Piaget) 4. Behavioral ideas (Pavlov) Psychoanalytic Theories Sigmund Freud: The theories suggested by Sigmund Freud pressured the value of childhood occurrences and experience, but almost specifically give attention to mental disorders somewhat than normal performing. According to Freud, child development is referred to as some 'psychosexual periods.'…

Lawrence Kohlberg believed that people advanced through their moral reasoning in a series of stages. There are six identifiable stages that are classified into three levels. Pre-Conventional, Conventional, and Post-Conventional. When organized on a chart, it was classified as Level, stage, and social orientation so that you could understand which level, what stage as in age, and behavior of the person. The concept of moral development is based on thinking and logic, not on feelings for others.…

1) Using Piaget's Cognitive Development theory, why do 5-year-olds think like Miriam? Analyze Miriam's thought process as related to Cognitive Developmental concepts (30 pts). Piaget's cognitive theory states that, "Thoughts and expectations profoundly affect attitudes, beliefs, values, assumptions, and actions" (The Developing Person, pg. 47). In Piaget's theory, two to six-year-old's think symbolically, with language, yet children are very egocentric and can only perceive things from their…

Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development talks about how people gain information through the years. This happens in four stages: the sensorimotor stage, the preoperationational reasoning stage, the concrete operational stage, and the formal operational stage. This past week I have been studying a child in the concrete operational stage. This stage is from ages seven to eleven. In this period of time, the child will have “more flexible thinking and can…

Four Stage Model González-Herrero (1994) and González-Herrero and Pratt (1995, 1996) developed a four-stage model for crisis management which the various phases of crisis is considered analogous to the biological lifecycle from birth to death. The model describes the development of crisis with following sequential steps- birth, growth, maturity, and decline (death). The purpose of such demarcation is to clearly identify the different stages of the crisis so as to effectively deal with them.…

Cognitive development is the process of the mental activity within the human brain. This involves the method of thinking, memory and perception. Oakley (2004, p.2) states that ‘As a child develops, their thinking changes’. In this essay, I will compare and contrast two cognitive theories in child development and define how these theories might be applied by professionals working with children and families. Piaget and Vygotsky are both cognitive theorists. They established that cognitive…

In the mid-eighties of the last century, Robert Sternberg, a psychologist Yale University, proposed his triad theory of intelligence. Their model is based on intelligence mental operations performed by the individual. Defines as intelligence conduct that has as its object the conscious adaptation, selection and configuration of the environment on the basis of the interests and needs from the person. For Sternberg: Intelligence is modifiable. Intelligence is at least partially defined by the…

Evaluate the view that stage-based approaches to development are unable to account for individual differences in development In a quest to explain development, stage based approaches are often used. Stage based approaches look at the development of children in particular being divided into concrete stages, in which the fundamental development takes place (Bukatko & Daehler, 2001). One of the most relevant stage based approach is that of Piaget. Piaget believed that cognitive development could…