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Babyhood, Early & Late Childhood, and Adolescence - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Development of Understanding
    - - Teeth
      - Height
      - Weight
- - - - The Preoperational Phase
        
        Drawing
        
        Mental Image
        
        Symbolic Play
        
        Verbal Evocation
        
        Deferred Imitation
    - - Social
        
        acquiring the preliminary training and experience needed to become a member of a "gang" in late childhood.
        often called the "pre-gang" age.
        It is important that young children enjoy their contacts as it will positively affect their future social contacts.
      - Emotional
        
        Children's Emotions
        
        characterized by heightened emotionality. They experience love, fear, joy, and anger as much as adults, however, young children's emotions are usually felt more strongly and expressed more openly than those of adults. The duration of those feelings only last for a few minutes as opposed to adults which may take hours or days. Due to being newly introduced to these kinds of emotions, they are easily stimulated to experience the emotions mentioned above.
        
        Children's Fear
        
        common sources:
        
        noise
        
        objects that make noise
        
        strange objects
        
        persons and situations
        
        They manifest fear of darkness, imaginary creatures, and being alone, and experience dreams that give rise to fear reaction.
    - - Body Proportion
- - - - a period of slow and relatively uniform growth until the changes of puberty begin, approximately two years before the child becomes sexually mature, at which time growth speeds up markedly.
      - Focuses on the physical growth before being sexually mature with the theme of females hitting developing earlier than males
    - - Crystalized intelligence by Cattel's Model of mentality sums up the cognitive development in children who are in their late childhood phase. It consists of constant adaptation of continuously acquired patterns dependant on one's culture.
      - Period of Concrete Operation
    - - Social Development
        
        the self emerges in the process of socialization - a process of social interaction and social activity mediated by language.
      - The Generalized Others
        
        The integration of various roles or set of norms in a social group. They define their relationships based on the attitudes and responses of others in social activities they participate in. The visualization of their own action as a part of a whole pattern of group activity.
      - Frienships
        
        They begin to form friendships in the context of a peer group. In a series of stages described by Youniss (1980), the system is presented wherein it describes several descriptions of stages and phases of the meaning of friendships.
        
        In this phase of childhood, children aged 6 - 8 are said to base friendships based on reciprocity.
        Sharing draws them together; negative social behavior such as hitting drives them apart.
      - Emotional Development
        
        Developed in the context of groups (family, social circles, etc.)
        First and foremost, the children learn in the family what it expects and what it rejects.
        The reinforcement of self-expression can be helpful in their future relationships, mental health, and success.
- - - - The difference in the biological factors of growth of males and females are prominent.
        Satisfaction with the physical changes that take place as children's bodies are transformed into adult bodies is so important.
        A person's appearance, along with their sexual identity is the characteristic that concerns most adolescents and affects their self-confidence.
    - - adolescents also experience a "cognitive spurt" wherein the changes that take place in the intellectual growth are both quantitative and qualitative. Skills are specialized during adolescence, and the individual may demonstrate what appears to be emerging interests.
    - - There are difficult adjustments to be made in this stage in order to achieve the goal of preparing themselves for adult patterns of socialization.
      - Peer group acceptance comes into play and it is very importance to the adolescent. He engages in the same behavior of his peer group to feel a sense of acceptance and belonging.
      - As adolescence progresses, peer-group influences begin to wane as most adolescents want to establish their self-identity. In turn, their identities may not align to their peer group and as a result, they narrow down their friends to a smaller number where they feel like they belong with their newfound identity that continues to develop.
    - - A "storm and stress" periods of life as heightened emotional tension resulting from physical and gradual changes that are taking place.
        Emotional maturity progresses as years pass and it is said that a more stable approach to incoming emotions which were previously hard to control are a telltale sign of emotional maturity.
      - Indications of maturity show when one assesses a situation critically instead of irrationally. He should able to think properly to solve conflicts in any relationships he has and it will be an important factor in maintaining healthy relationships.