EDUC 501
DEVELOPMENTAL BEHAVOIRS
In reference to developmental behaviors, T. M. McDevitt and J. E.Ormrod assert that there are
three developmental trends: physical, cognitive, and social-emotional stages (Ch.1, 2015).
The physical development entails the physical changes ones body goes through. This was
displayed by the changes in each of the four children body types and or growth. The cognitive
development domain refers to the age-related transformations that occur in children’s reasoning,
concepts, memory, language, and intellectual skills; these changes are nurtured by children’s
interest in their families, schools, and communities (2015). A child’s social-emotional
development includes many modificaitons that occur in emotions, self-concept, motivation,
social relationships, moral reasoning and behavior; these advancements that depend in large part
on children’s interactions with other people (2015). After observing the child form the early
childhood oberservation, I would say that he fouces on physical development because hes not
able to give answers when asked how does the teacher or his parents encourage him to be better
at his school work. As a result of possible lack of nurturing the child is physically developing and
his social-emotional development is not be addressed on a daily basis. The child in the middle
childhood observation cognitive development is accelerating at a higher level because she has a
teacher who chanllenges her and make reading extremely fun. The child mentioned that her
teacher incentivizes learning new words and that she loves when the teacher chanllenges her with
higher grade level test. This child is also older than the child in the early childhood observation
and I believe as a result of the age difference the early childhood child likes playing more that
learning, like the child in the middle childhood observation. The child in the early adolescence
observation is in between physical and cognitive development stages. She likes to move during
her math activities and likes the teachers to keep her focused by being enthusiastic during the
lessons other lessons to ensure her learning experience is fun. The child in the late adolescence
observations has mastered his social-emotional development stage. He wants to learn because his
parents taught him this is the way to go and as a result he now wants to make them proud of him
by incorporating the same values of getting good grades. All four observations show the range of
developmental behaviors expressed in one or more than one developmental styles.
References
McDevitt, T. M., & Ormrod, J. E. (2016). Child development and education (6th ed.). Upper
Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson.
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