(Optional) Describe physical, social, emotional, and cognitive growth.
Description should include physical, social, emotional, and cognitive growth and how each type of growth relates to the others.
Process/Skill Questions:
Thinking
- What factors affect an individual’s physical, social, emotional, and intellectual growth?
- What criteria can be used to evaluate an individual’s stage of physical, social, emotional, and intellectual growth?
- How would you classify the developmental stages from birth to death?
- What is the relationship between late adulthood and social withdrawal?
- What is the relationship between the identities of self in relation to others?
- How does childhood trauma affect human growth?
Communication
- How are physical, social, emotional, and intellectual growth interrelated?
- How does an understanding of human growth and development help build strong families?
- What are the consequences of poor communication on an individual’s growth?
Leadership
- Why are observation skills crucial when working in a child care setting?
- How do cognitive abilities change as people move throughout the lifespan?
- What leadership skills promote physical, social, emotional, and intellectual growth in ourselves and others?
- What happens to one aspect of human growth if another is neglected? For example, what happens to an individual’s social growth if emotional growth is not nurtured?
- What additional skills are needed when working with children who have experienced trauma?
Management
- What could be done to manage emotional stress?
- What data would you use to measure a child’s development?
- How could you prove that culture affects human development?
- What cues help people recognize milestones in their physical, social, emotional, and intellectual growth?
- What are the milestones in your physical, social, emotional, and intellectual growth?
- How can family activities be managed to enhance family members’ physical, social, emotional, and intellectual growth?