The nature versus nurture debate focuses on the question of whether genetic or environmental factors matter most in the course of human development. What is it that makes you who you are? Some might say that it is your genes…
Early childhood development focuses on a period of remarkable physical, cognitive, social, and emotional change. Infants enter the world with a limited range of skills and abilities. Watching a child develop new motor, cognitive, language, and social skills is a…
Child development theories are focused on understanding and explaining how kids change over the course of childhood. Psychologists and development researchers have proposed a number of different theories to describe and explain the process and stages that children go through…
All parents have their own approach to child rearing, but psychologists have also identified distinctive parenting styles that can have an impact on child development. Today, psychologists suggest that there are four major parenting styles: Authoritarian parenting Authoritative parenting Permissive…
Piaget’s theory of cognitive development suggests that children progress through a series of stages of mental development. The theory outlines four distinct stages from birth through adolescence, focusing on how children acquire knowledge, reasoning, language, morals, and memory. Piaget’s stages…
How do people grow and change over the course of life? This is one of many questions that developmental psychology seeks to answer. Development is about much more than simply the physical changes that take place over the course of…
Learning self-control is an important part of healthy social and emotional development. Obviously, when kids lose their self-control and start throwing a tantrum in the middle of a crowded store or during a family gathering, it can be immensely frustrating…
