Physical and Cognitive Development

In this paper I plan to discuss the developmental stages of adolescence. Adolescents are also referred to as "teenagers" or "young adults." Adolescence begins after the childhood stage and ends right before adulthood. The years of adolescence range from 12 years old to 21 years old. The years of adolescence can be quite a roller coaster ride. Young people in this stage encounter a great deal of changes in their life as they prepare for adulthood. I will discuss emotional, intellectual, physiological, and social domains of development and how it relates to adolescents. I will also discuss some helpful tips for teachers to aide in communicating effectively to adolescents and understanding their

There are factors that can influence cognitive, social and physical development. Everyone develops at a different pace. Tyra Beckett development was different and not easy. But she overcame her challenges and became the person she is today. Tyra Beckett is a native New Yorker, who moved to Virginia. She has faced many obstacles in her life such as not speaking until three, having a speech impediment, losing her father, being bullied and stressing in college. She plans on finding a career in Human service, helping the community and finding love. At a young age she was taught about spirituality. She attended bible studies, events and church every Sunday and holiday. Her spirituality has been a positive influence on her and her decisions. Spirituality and her development will continue to affect her decision into the rest of her life. Everything Tyra is today is because of her spirituality and belief in God.

Another key area of a child’s physical development is gross motor skills. Gross motor skills includes aspects such as head control, sitting up, the prone position, and walking. It is important that a baby had full head control this is so that it allows the child to be able to progress onto other areas or gross motor skills. It is vital that when picking a baby up that the head is supported this is so that no injury is caused to the neck. Once the muscles in the neck has developed then you can stop supporting the head as there is little chance of the neck becoming injured. A way that you can check if the neck muscles have developed properly is to put the baby into a sitting position and if the neck wobbles a bit then this means that the muscles

Physical development of children correlates to other areas of development, for example, fine and gross motor and results in healthy development of the brain. A teacher should observe and assess the development of the learners’ fine-motor coordination and gross-motor developmental milestones during outdoor play. However, children grow at different rates, which is an indication that a child may regress in a skill or reach a milestone earlier than another.

This group of students is quite diverse. This group of fourth grade students also exhibit diversity from their home life, culture, and socioeconomic areas. This school has over an eighty percent ration of students on free or reduced lunches. Religious diversity also plays a part in this group of children. These children break up into social groups based along these lines of diversity.

During a lifetime, there are many changes that we go through to make us who we are, starting when you are a child. Growing up, there are things that may affect our cognitive development that may disrupt the learning and growing process. Adolescence and emerging adulthood represent core formative periods of the life span, in which young people face multiple challenges that are crucial for self and prosocial development (Crocetti et al.) It is very important that a child has the adequate amount of time to obtain the cognitive skills and social abilities that are required to live a happy and healthy lifestyle. If certain milestones are not met, it will affect them drastically and raise concern because the child is not developing at the correct

Adolescence is the transition between childhood and adulthood (Berk, 2014, p. 361). During adolescence, children and teenagers begin to form their identity, establishing who they are based on their values and goals (Berk, 2014, p. 361). Adolescence typically begins with puberty and is followed by changes in motor and cognitive development (Berk, 2014, p. 362). During adolescence, teenagers often experience Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development, Erikson’s Theory of Development, and Kohlberg’s 3 Levels of Moral Development. These theories and ideas have helped form the basis of normal adolescent development. Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development describes how the use of more advanced and abstract thinking occurs in a sequence for all children,

PSY 3313 Psychology of Adulthood and Aging introduced the student students with an integrative overview of five different areas of adolescent development: biological, cognitive, cultural beliefs, gender, and the self. It also provided an opportunity to familiarize the student with the multiple contexts in which adolescent development takes place: family relationships; friends and peers; dating, love and sexuality; school; work; and

In current times everyone is constantly surrounded by old and new technology and people, especially children, are constantly using it. A Topical Approach to Life-Span Development talks about how the increased screen time that children are having is linked with lower levels of activity (Santrock, 2016). Activity levels during childhood and the effects it has on physical development has been a focus recently with initiatives by people like Michael Obama and campaigns like the NFL’s Play 60. With obesity more than doubling in children and quadrupling in adolescents in the past 30 years, there has been an increased focus on how diet and physical activity can play a part in the prevention and treating of obesity in children because of the negative health effects it can have (“Childhood Obesity Facts,” 2015). In addition to the importance of exercise in physical development, exercise can also be linked to children’s cognitive skills (Santrock, 2016). It can have benefits for children’s memory, attention, and future cognitive performance.

The age of adolescents is generally a time of great change within a person's life. Between the ages of twelve and eighteen, adolescents do not only experience rapid physical change, but also begin to find their own unique personality by completing cognitive, behavioral, moral and social stages. These stages were defined by different theorists such as Erik Erikson, Jean Piaget and Lawrence Kohlberg. After completing these stages an adolescent should be able to develop into a healthy and happy adult who can think abstractly and has their own set of morals and identity (Berk, 2014, pg. 402).

What variables influence the adolescent developmental process? Does biology outweigh the effect of environment? Do teenagers mature in a continuous or discontinuous fashion? What effect do early verse later experience influence the young people’s maturity into adulthood? Through the ages, researches have investigated these questions to better understand the growth adolescent experience between the ages of ten to twenty-one. The intermingling of the biological, cognitive, and socioemotional process constitutes the development of an adolescent. By examining the effects of nature verse nurture, continuous verse discontinuous development, and early verse later experiences, we will conclude that the developmental process in an adolescent is the intertwining of all these variables and not a result of one over the other.

When it comes to physical health it does affect your cognitive development when a young child comes from a home where the environment is not the best place to stay when they come to school that focus and mind set is not there at all. Many times in class you may hear a child say there tummy hurts or when is lunch or did they miss breakfast if a child doesn’t eat that morning that’s doing nothing more than stoping there growth and sadly that mental development is not there. This can happen very often when the child lives in poverty where there isn’t enough food in the household for them to eat.

The purpose of this issue paper is to compare and contrast two different articles one written by L.E. Berk in 2010 that explores lifespan development. The other article was written by the staff and research team at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford in 2012 that addresses what cognitive development is and the progress of adolescence cognitive development. Cognitive development begins from the moment of birth and continues throughout life. However, this student finds the cognitive abilities are more complex during the adolescent years. Therefore, the issue this paper will address is adolescence cognitive development.

Nowadays, more and more children have obesity compare to the children in thirty years ago. The research showed that children who have obesity in their early age may cause either short-term or long-term consequence. The short-term consequence for the obesity children include low self-esteem and the long-term consequence includes asthma and heart disease. (CDC) The best way to prevent these is to encourage children do at least one hour physical exercise a day within the trained instructor guided. ( Epstein 2014) My paper is mainly focused on how my curriculum promote physical development in a child care center.

Adolescence is the distinct transitional stage between childhood and adulthood in human development, extending primarily over the teenage years and terminating legally when the age of majority is reached (Rathus, 2014). However in some instances, this biological, cognitive, social and emotional maturity may not be reached until a later stage and may be dictated by gender. Adolescence is characterised by rapidly changing and unpredictable behaviour (Freud, as cited in Rathus 2014), heightened and unstable emotions (Hall, as cited in Rathus 2014), disturbances in identity, the gradual development of one’s moral reasoning (Kohlberg, as cited in Rathus, 2014) and the gradual establishment of one’s independence. Several of these changes may occur at differing phases in adolescent growth. This development is categorized into three separate stages; early adolescence, middle adolescence, and late adolescence. Early Adolescence, commencing from the ages of eleven or twelve until the age of fourteen, comprises of several features such as rapid biological development and maturity, heightened stress levels and limited coping capabilities. On the other hand, middle adolescence, from the approximate age of fourteen to sixteen, involves the gradual cease of biological change, an increase in coping strategies and declined stress levels. Furthermore, late adolescence, commencing from the age of sixteen until the age of eighteen or nineteen, encompasses physical maturity, whereby the