Psy/211 Development and Matrix

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Development Matrix

Part I – Developmental Stages

For each developing field, physical, cognitive, and social, identify two key changes or challenges related with the following stages: childhood, teenage years, and maturity.

|Stage of Development |Physical Development |Cognitive Development |Social Development |

|Childhood |Mechanical skills consist of |Learns to use language. |Enjoy exploring objects with |

| |coordination and control of large|Thinking reasonably about actual|adults. |

| |muscles and abilities like |events, but struggle accepting |Shows stress when others are |

| |walking, sitting and running. |abstract or hypothetical |unhappy. |

| |Vision is the ability to see near|concepts. | |

| |and far, and to interpret what’s | | |

| |seen. | | |

| | | | |

|Adolescence |Changes in height and body. |The capacity for insight and | Begin to spend more time with |

| |composition |judgement is developed through |their friends and less time with|

| |Erections with ejaculation. |experience. |their parents. |

| | |Begin to question authority and |Drug...