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A Brief Report
Objectives
Explain the concept of socialization;
Assess the importance of early experience for later social and emotional development;
Explain the impact of social and biological factors on the stages of human development.
Identify and discuss physical and psychological changes that take place during
adolescence;
Discuss the impact of particular life events on adulthood; for example marriage,
• It has developed a
spinal cord and a two-
lobe.
Fetal Period
• Different kinds of
reflexes and motor
activities help newborn
babies to survive after
birth.
Infancy
1. Motor skills
2. Reflexes
Grasping reflex
Rooting reflex
Reaching reflex
Swimming reflex-
Early Childhood
• In line with biological
development, children
progress from immature
stages of mental
development to complex
stages of mental
development.
• This developmental
aspect is called cognitive
development.
Jean Piaget (1896-1980)
1. Genetic programming
theories of aging
• The theory suggests that
there is built in time limit to
the reproduction of human
cells.
• Some cells are genetically
programmed and become
harmful and self destructive
to the internal biology of the
body.
Old Age
2. Wear and tear theories of
aging
• The theory suggests that as
time goes on functioning of
the body stop working
efficiently.
• Waste-by- products
eventually accumulate and in
effect creates problem on
cells reproduction
Erikson’s 8 Stages of Development