Developmental Stages
Developmental Stage/Age Group: Infancy and toddlerhood (0 - 3 years)
Erickson maintains that the first human developmental stage involves an individual’s interactions with his/her surroundings, normally the baby’s immediate social and physical environment, which is made up of home and family (Levinson, 1986). Especially important at this point (i.e. infancy) is the mother- baby relationship – the very first social bond one forms. Receptive mothers sensitive to the distinctive requirements of their baby will help cultivate a sound sense of self- worth within the baby, facilitating the development… Continue Reading...
move from one stage of development to the next. Overall, there are several major developmental stages in the life of a child. There are the toddler years, the prepubescent years and the adolescent/teenage years. The brief literature review that follows in this report shall focus on the last of those. To be complete with this analysis, adolescence is not the end of human development given that many suggest that development extends into the 20's and 30's. Even so, the adolescent years of development are hailed by many as being the most pivotal, at least in some regards. While many would debate the above, it… Continue Reading...
style exhibited by his parents, language development and personality and cognitive developmental stages. At the park, the subject in question was largely seen playing the following games.
• Sardines
Sardines represents a unique form of the traditional game of hide and seek. A single player hides whereas the remaining are to turn the other way and count. When the hiding player is found by any one seeker, the latter joins him/her. One by one, all players crowd into the player's hiding place and this marks the end of the game.
• Blob tag
When the "It" player tags another player, both… Continue Reading...
hold a perception of being actively engaged in shaping their future. They follow developmental stages that are intelligible in exploring and pursuing long-term goals. I have realized that the lifespan development theory is essential in my realization of timely goals in life as a social worker. In this study, I have elucidated the motivational theory of lifespan development and illustrated how I will incorporate it in my life as a social worker.
The motivation theory of lifespan development focuses on the adaptive capacity of people to maximize their development across major platforms in their lives. Regulating motivation is among paramount features of adaptive… Continue Reading...
developmental stages of life. The key elements of the preoperational stage include centration, egocentrism, symbolic representation and pretence and animism (McLeod 2018). The attributes of this stage and…[…… parts of this paper are missing, click here to view the entire document ]…themselves based only on their natural abilities.
Another important feature of Vygotsky’s theory is the scaffolding approach to a child’s cognitive development. Scaffolding is one of the ways through which Vygotsky expressed the importance of the social environment to a child’s cognitive growth. It states that a child develops… Continue Reading...
2015).
The intrusion of television in households has made it more of a necessity as opposed to a mere luxury tool. Babies have been exposed to the television in their early developmental stages, with the average four – month old baby spending 44 minutes watching television each day in Australia. Toddlers under two years spend an average of 1.2 hours on the television in the United States of America. Pre- teens in Britain have also been caught up in the web of watching TV and playing online games at an average of 5 hours daily (Barkham, 2009).
According to Chonchaiya and Pruksananonda (2008), watching television has its pros and cons but that the cons seem to outweigh the pros. In as… Continue Reading...
