The Importance Of Human Development

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Introduction Every human being goes through many stages and challenges throughout their lives. Psychologist and theorist are important in human development, as they would produce an insight understanding about the lifespan changes on each individual. Development is where an individual goes through each stage to adapt on their environment. People in the society share similar experiences and challenges however, because of stages of development we find our own way to cope up with all of our adversities, which makes each individual unique. Throughout the human development the key domains focuses on Physical, Cognitive, Emotional, Social and Moral domains that is associated with theories. The theories include Piaget, Frued, Erickson, Bowlby and …show more content…

The main development that occurs at the school age years or the concrete operational stage is the fine moral development (Berk, 2007). Unlike the preoperational stage children in concrete operations will not have any difficulty of finding a solution to a problem. Affected by the Nurture vs. Nature along side with the cognitive domain, the moral reasoning of a child will be more advance as they would follow the rules and will know the consequence if they did something wrong. I was only 4 years old when I started school. I use to always cry in front of our school because I don’t want my mother to leave me in the kindergarten but if this will occur again in middle school year I would respond differently as I have developed the moral judgment. The improvement in the intellectual is not inherited from the parents but it is believed that this stage is part of the child’s growth. The use of language during this stage is very important for communication. When I was around 9 years old my cousin use to teach me English, in that age I hated English because it is my second language and it is really hard for me to understand. My cousin made up a game where we have to speak English for the whole 4 hours and who ever speaks Tagalog (Philippine language) will have to give the opponent a candy. On my point of view I thought that if I did not talk for the whole 4 hours I would gain more because I can keep the candy for my self. This shows the egocentric speech from Piaget’s theory (Berk, 2007) as I only think about myself and what will happen to me but I did not think that my cousin is playing that game for me to learn English. From this experience I gain negative development from thinking that I am winning, as I will have the one with most candies at the end. At a young age not talking for 4 hours is a bit

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