PSYCHOLOGY OF DEVELOPMENT

This area of knowledge of psychology studies the development of human beings in all its aspects: physical, motor, intellectual, emotional and social-emotional development - from birth to adulthood.


Human development

Human development refers to the mental development and organic growth. Mental development is a continuous structure. These are the forms of organization of mental activity will be improved and solidified by the time that all of them. Some of these mental structures remain throughout life.


The importance of studying human development

This study is to understand the importance of studying human development. Studying human development is to know the common characteristics of an age. Plan what and how to teach involves knowing who is the student. There are ways to perceive, understand and behave toward the world, specific to each age group.


Factors influencing human development

• Inheritance - a charge down the genetic potential of the individual, who may or may not develop. Intelligence can be developed in accordance with the conditions of the environment in which it is.
• Organic growth - refers to the physical aspect.
• neurophysiological maturation - is what makes possible certain standard of behavior.
• Environment - the set of influences and environmental stimulation alters the patterns of behavior of the individual.


Of human development

• Physical Appearance-engine - refers to organic growth, maturation neurophysiological.Example: A child who takes the pacifier to his mouth.
• Appearance intellectual - is the ability to thought, reasoning. Example: A child of 2 years using a broomstick to pull a toy that is down from a mobile.
• affective-emotional aspect - is the particular mode of the individual to integrate their experiences. Sexuality is part of that. Example: The shame we feel in some situations.
• Social aspect - is the way the individual reacts to situations involving other people. Example: When a group is a child who stands alone.
Can not find an example of "pure", because all these aspects relate permanently.


The human development theory of Jean Piaget

The author divides the periods of development in accordance with the emergence of new qualities of thinking.
This period, the most important thing happening is the emergence of language. As a result of the emergence of language, thought development accelerates. The interaction and communication between individuals are the most obvious consequences of language. One of the most important is the respect that nurtures the child by individuals who thinks more than she.During this period, the neurophysiological maturation is complete, allowing the development of new skills such as fine motor skills - picking up small objects with the fingertips, hold the pencil correctly and to make the delicate movements required for writing.

Period of concrete operations
(childhood itself - 7 to 11 or 12 years)
At this age your child is ready to begin a process of systematic learning. The child acquires increasing autonomy in relation to adults, started organizing their own moral values. The categorization of the opposite sex decreases. The child, who at the beginning of the period also saw enough opinions and ideas of adults at the end is to face them.

Period of formal operations
(a teenager - 11 or 12 years onwards)
Can deal with concepts like freedom, justice, etc.. It is able to draw conclusions from pure chance. The target of his reflection is the society, always looked at as possible to be reformed and transformed. In the affective aspect, the conflicted teenager.

Youth: life project
The personality begins to emerge in late childhood, between 8 to 12 years. In adulthood does not arise any new frame of mind, and the individual then moves to a gradual increase in cognitive development.