Category: Developmental Psychology

Symbolic play is a tool used by children to try and communicate with the world in a different way. As a society or even practitioners we follow this to try and have a greater understanding of how this helps a childs cognitive, social and emotional development, and in this essay I am going to be…

Promoting effective nursing care is based on the thorough understanding of human development across the lifespan. It aids in forming appropriate expectations regarding human behaviour and responding appropriately. Many theorists over the course of history have philosophised concepts regarding this, from Freuds psychosexual theory to Vygotskys social development concept. Each theoretical approach differs but play…

Introduction According to Britannica a feral child is a child that has grown up, accidentally or intentionally, with limited human contact. But just because these children grew up with little to no human contact; it doesn’t mean that they are any less human. For example, Victor of Aveyron, a twelve year old boy who was…

Developmental psychology is the study of how and why humans change throughout their life (Hurlock, 2001). This explains criminal behaviour through several ways, mainly that criminal behaviour develops due to developmental problems such as attachment problems or poor social skills. Developmental psychology asks the question is a criminal born or made? By explaining criminal behaviour…

Within the field of Developmental Psychology, genetics and the surrounding environment play an outsized role in factors like personality traits, emotion and language. One of the longest debates in Western intellectual history concerns the relative influence of genetic and environmental factors on human behavioural differences, also known as the nature vs nurture debate. The argument…

Throughout life, children are constantly going through change. There has been much debate about the pathway of development from birth to adulthood; some argue that development occurs in stage like periods whereby the stages are chronological (children develop according to their age). A person may become stuck at a specific stage if they do not…

The participants in this are the children that were interviewed. There was a total of nineteen children interviewed; there were seven interviewed in the three to five age range, five in the eight to ten age range, and seven in the thirteen to fifteen age range. Out of the nineteen, eleven of the children were…

Developmental psychology, in a few words, is a scientific approach for social and emotional growth usually practiced with children. The main features of development can be split four groupings, these are behaviour, socialisation, communication and cognition. The approach is to use a systemic method of intervention and healing, taking the individual through developmentally appropriate sequences…

The article that is presented by the New York University is dealing with the parents influence on the childrens ability to control emotions and recognize them. It is claimed that the aggression between parents is likely to have an adverse effect on the development of children. There is no difference whether it is verbal or…

Table of Contents The Understanding of Theories Vygotskys Sociocultural Theory of Cognitive Development Piagets Theory of Cognitive Development Eriksons Theory of Psychosocial Development Conclusion References Various developmental theories explain learning processes and provide psychologists with recommendations on how to facilitate childrens development. The understanding of these theories is important because it helps to create environments…