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Physical Development
Physical development is the process that starts in human infancy and continues into late adolescent concentrating on gross and fine motor skills as well as puberty. Physical development involves developing control over the body, particularly muscles and physical coordination.
Cognitive Development
Cognitive development is the construction of thought processes, including remembering, problem solving, and decision-making, from childhood through adolescence to adulthood.
Psychosocial Development
the development of the personality, including the acquisition of social attitudes and skills, from infancy through maturity.
Normative Approach
A theoretical, prescriptive approach to sociological studies that has the aim of appraising or establishing the values and norms that best fit the overall needs and expectations of society. Compare value-free approach.
Developmental Milestones
A developmental milestone is an ability that is achieved by most children by a certain age. Developmental milestones can involve physical, social, emotional, cognitive, and communication skills such as walking, sharing with others, expressing emotions, recognizing familiar sounds, and talking.
Continuous Development
Those psychologists who support the continuous view of development suggest that development involves gradual and ongoing changes throughout the life span, with behaviour in the earlier stages of development providing the basis of skills and abilities required for the next stages.
Discontinuous Development
discontinuity theory says that development occurs in a series of distinct stages.
nature vs nurture
Nature vs. Nurture in Psychology. by Saul McLeod, updated 2015. The nature vs. nurture debate within psychology is concerned with the extent to which particular aspects of behavior are a product of either inherited (i.e., genetic) or acquired (i.e., learned) characteristics.
Psychosexual Stage Theory Development (Freud)
In Freudian psychology, psychosexual development is a central element of the psychoanalytic sexual drive theory, that human beings, from birth, possess an instinctual libido (sexual energy) that develops in five stages.
Psychosocial Stage Theory Development (Erikson)
Erikson's (1959) theory of psychosocial development has eight distinct stages, taking in five stages up to the age of 18 years and three further stages beyond, well into adulthood. Like Freud and many others, Erik Erikson maintained that personality develops in a predetermined order, and builds upon each previous stage. This is called the epigenetic principle.
Cognitive Stage Theory of Development (Piaget)
Cognitive development is Jean Piaget's theory. Through a series of stages, Piaget proposed four stages of cognitive development: the sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational and formal operational period.
Schema
A schema is a cognitive framework or concept that helps organize and interpret information
Assimilation
Assimilation is a cognitive process that manages how we take in new information and incorporate that new information into our existing knowledge. This concept was developed by Jean Piaget, a Swiss developmental psychologist who is best known for his theory of cognitive development in children.
Accommodation
Accommodation is a term developed by psychologist Jean Piaget to describe what occurs when new information or experiences cause you to modify your existing schemas. Rather than make the new information fit into an existing schema, you change the schema in order to accommodate the new information.
Sensorimotor
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Psychologist Jean Piaget proposed that humans experience four stages of cognitive, or mental, development, starting from the day they are born all the way through adulthood. The first stage of their development is referred to as the sensorimotor stage. This stage begins at birth and lasts through 24 months of age.
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