1. Human Development
Development = coordination of skills into complex behaviors
Development will occur in a common pattern with everyone else but you will develop at your own pace.
Throughout the course we will look at different areas of human development including:
Cognitive development
Social development
Emotional development

2. Cognitive Development
As a child you were only capable of concrete thinking based on observing the real world.
Thinking about things that cannot be seen such as love, truth, or fairness (abstract thinking) challenges you to develop more complex thinking skills
In adolescence logical thinking skills develop and you can solve more complex problems. You will also become more skilled at predicting possible consequences of your choices when you are making decisions.

3. Piaget’s Stages of Development
Theory shows how children develop into an individual who can think and reason
According to theory
All children go through 4 stages of cognitive development
All stages must occur in order (must achieve a stage before can move onto the next)

4. Piaget’s Stages of Development
Stage 1: Sensorimotor Stage (0-2 years)
Most of understanding of world is done through motor movements and senses
Children use reflexes like sucking, reaching and grasping to learn more about their environment
Learn by imitating others
Learn through objects can have specific purpose
Example: rattle
Develop object permanence
Activity:

5. Piaget’s Stages of Development
Object permanence
Knowing that an object exists even if it is hidden
Ability to form a mental idea/image of object without having to see it
Examples:
Peekaboo – children without object permanence will think you are gone if they can’t see you

6. Piaget’s Stages of Development
Preoperational (2-7 years)
Rapid increase in language ability
Can’t yet perform mental operations
Symbolic play
Riding a broom is a horse
Egocentric thinking
Can’t take own other people’s view points
“Animism”
Teddy bear’s have feelings

7. Piaget’s Stages of Development
Concrete Operational (7-11 years)
Thought process is more rational, mature
Ego centric thinking is diminished
Can work things out in head
Conservation
Things stay the same in quantity even though
appearance changes
Difficulty with abstract thinking

8. Piaget’s Stages of Development
Formal Operational (11- into adulthood)
Can perform more abstract and hypothetical thinking
Can think beyond concrete experiences
May still prefer concrete thinking because it is easier
Can draw conclusions about things that may not have actually happened
Don’t always have to test it out
Important in actions

9. Emotional Development
When you were a child you trusted and liked almost everyone.
You were generous with your smiles and hugs. However, you were easily hurt and you cried easily.
By elementary school you learned to look for opportunities to feel success and accomplishment. These feelings of trust, acceptance, independence, and competence still represent your major emotional needs.

10. Emotional Development
Children express their emotions freely without embarrassment
As an adolescent you learn to use appropriate emotional reactions that do not hurt you, your reputation or other people.
When you were a child your parents and other adults looked after your feelings.
They also guided your emotional development by helping you to identify what you were feeling and correcting you when you expressed your feelings in an unacceptable way.
As you grow you learn how to take responsibility for your behaviors and to control your emotional responses.

11. Social Development
Socialization = how you learn acceptable behaviors so that you can fit into society
Effective interactions with others are a sign of your social maturity.
Developing physically, cognitively, emotionally and socially are all necessary for you to be socialized.
Your challenge in adolescence is to develop personal
standards for acceptable behavior, so that fitting in does not mean losing sight
of who you are.

12. Social Development Children are naturally self-centered.
In order to meet their own needs, they relate to others from their own point of view.
As someone develops:
Learn to share viewpoints with others and think about other people’s needs.
Develop empathy 
Learn to help people you love when they need support
Social development in adolescent enables you to cooperate and compromise with those around you.
Find commonalities with people

13. How do you find ways to connect with others?
With technology, it it harder to find ways to socialize with people face to face?
How do you find ways to connect with others?
Connections are important for relationships (friends, romantic)

14. Activity: Speed Dating
You will have 3 minutes to have a conversation with someone you don’t know
Your goal is a way to connect with them

15. Journal Were you able to connect with the people you talked to?
Why or why not
How did you feel about this activity? Good, bad, awkward?
How can talking and connecting with others can help social and emotional development?