Essays on Development

Social deprivation, a psychological term, is the reduction or prevention of socially normal interactions between an individual(s) and the society at large. Social deprivation, a common phenomenon, especially in first world countries has an innumerable number of effects. Based on data published by the UNICEF, more than 8 million children...

Adolescence is the stage in life that lasts from puberty to full adult status. Adolescence largely describes the developmental change from childhood to adulthood, which is commonly perceived as the teenage years lasting between 13 and 19. However, the changes that do signal the beginning of the transition, both psychological...

The Physical, Cognitive, Emotional and Social Developmental Aspects of a Young Child The physical development of a young child called Marx (not his real name) is characterized by changes in the growth of the brain, excellent motor skills, and health. On the other hand, the cognitive concept of Marx entails the...

Parents have the responsibility of raising their children in the desired manner which affect them in their expected lifetime. Therefore, being good parents and how to make a long-lasting, confident, and loving relationship with their children is what is expected of them in their cognitive development. The degree of cognitive...

A moderator variant is measurable or attributive variable which alters the way or power between the independent and dependent variables. An intervening variable describes the   link between an independent and dependent variables (Hong, 2015). A moderator refers to a third variant that alters a zero-order connection between other two variables. A...

One of the most natural but yet challenging things is becoming a parent for the first time. A parent is an individual with the task of guiding and raising up a person from childhood until the person becomes an adult. They are critical since they form the primary example for...

Development in Early Childhood Development is the sequence of change related to age that occurs throughout the course of life (Bjorklund Causey, 2017). Various popular psychologists such as Jean Piaget, Erik Erickson, Lawrence Kohlberg, and Sigmund Freud have answered some questions to do with cognitive development in children. Some...

Human Development Human development is a continuous predictable process that starts from infancy and move through the stages of childhood, adolescence to adulthood. Physical, social, cognitive and emotional changes take place during human development. Normally, there is a general fixed sequence that human development takes. However, the rate at which human...

For a long time, I believed that developmental psychology is only concerned with the changes in cognitive development when people transition from childhood to adulthood. Both the video and the study text point out clearly that this sub-discipline is not only concerned with the cognitive development of adolescents but children...

Arguments for caution in using personality measurement Arguments for caution in using personality measurement to make inferences have been presented by Mischell (1977) in an evidence-based framework. In fact, Mischell (1977) is one of the ardent critiques of the social-cognitive hypothesis through the detailed discussion of personality traits. Mischell (1977) asserts...

When babies enter the second year They crawl vigorously, walk, and use their developmental limits to explore rules and boundaries set by the parent. When playing a complex sport such as tennis, the child will provide little attention, increased memory but less thinking to help in exploring the game. For instance,...

A Piagetian and Productive Struggle A Piagetian supports the idea that children who have attained the age of between six or seven and eleven or twelve years can apply logical operations in their thinking process to solve a classroom-based problem or mathematical question. The Productive Struggle The ability to persevere in understanding and...