(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?