There are multiple stages of development that all children go through. The depth and breadth of these developmental changes ebb and flow greatly as growing children 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… Continue Reading...
Piaget’s Stages of Development
Few theorists have had as strong an impact on developmental psychology as Jean Piaget. While the theories of Lev Vygotsky have offered compelling counterpoints to Piaget’s theories, the stages of psychosocial development Piaget proposed remain salient. In fact, it is easy to combine emerging research on childhood development from infancy to adolescence in terms of Piaget’s stages. As Lightfoot, Cole & Cole (2009) point out, evolutionary theories, information processing theories, and systems theories can all be integrated within the staged concept of development that Piaget proposed. Piaget… Continue Reading...
is an aspect of culture. Family is probably the most important agent of socialization in the younger stages of development, but once the individual begins to have a sense of independence, that socialization process kicks over into a different direction and the individual wants to be more accepted in other groups than just one’s family. So a church group or a school group or a work group or a street group or any other kind of group might be more appealing to the person and so they become a more powerful socialization agent for the individual.
Some of the cues and behaviors that individuals learn through the… Continue Reading...
internally socialized to overcome the drive.
Psychosexual Stages of Development
According to Freud, the nature of conflicts among superego, ego and id keep on changing as one matures from childhood. He argued that the conflict progresses through a series of stages. He identified 5 stages each of which had a different focus: genital, latency, phallic, anal, and oral. Freud called this idea the psychosexual theory of development. Each of the psychosexual stages was believed to directly relate to the physical center of pleasure. Consequently, the child is presented with conflicts between the id (biological drive) and superego… Continue Reading...
objects within those same schemas, and through the achievement of cognitive equilibrium as each individual progresses through the various stages of development.
Identify two key ideas from this theory that are found in the current trends or best practices used in the early childhood care settings of today.
Especially within early childhood education, children learn via active play: interacting with their environment in a physical way rather than only encountering new information via verbal lessons (Hopkins, 2011). Also, Piaget contributed greatly towards the trend of age-appropriate learning experiences, curricula, and classroom design. Piaget also helped to promote the idea that in early childhood especially, learning is not about right… Continue Reading...
traced to fixation or stagnation, a neurosis that is due to a previous difficulty at one of the stages of development.
Freud’s theory is interesting, certainly, and has its own internal logic. However, Freud’s model is not at all scientific. Freud also focused almost exclusively on male libido, being personally perplexed by female sexual desire and by women in general (“Modules on Freud: On Psychosexual Development,” n.d.). Without any substantial research to back up his theories, Freud’s work remains theoretical. Therefore, I do not necessarily agree with the details of the theory.
However, there is no doubt that Freud is correct that the suppression of desire can cause… Continue Reading...
engineers, they resolved to change that trend through developing a learning management system for their masters project (Its Learning, n.d.). In the initial stages of development, the system was a single platform through which teachers could share their academic files and resources while students could complete and deliver their assignments. As the system became an instant hit, ITs Learning was founded with a vision of promoting effective use of technology to significantly enhance the field of education. Through its cloud-based LMS, ITs Learning has developed to become a digital learning platform that supports teachers and students to effectively manage the learning process, develop multimedia resources, and share academic information and work online (EQT… Continue Reading...
Family is probably the most important agent of socialization in the younger stages of development, but once the individual begins to have a sense of independence, that socialization process kicks over into a different direction and the individual wants to be more accepted in other groups than just one’s family. So a church group or a school group or a work group or a street group or any other kind of group might be more appealing to the person and so they become a more powerful socialization agent for the individual.
Some of the things people learn through the socialization process across… Continue Reading...
