Theories_Of_Child_Development_As_They_Pertain_To_Middle_Chil

Theories Of Child Development As They Pertain To Middle Childhood And Adolescence “…the trouble about arguments is, they ain’t nothing but theories, after all, and theories don’t prove nothing, they only give you a place to rest on, a spell, when you are tuckered out butting around and around trying to find out something there ain’t no way to find out… There’s another trouble about theories: there’s always a hole in them somewhere, sure, if you look close enough.” -Tom Sawyer Abroad “It is theory that decides what can be observed.” -Albert Einstein Whether one believes Mark Twain’s fictional street smart character or the brilliant architect of the theory of relativity, it must be acknowledged that theories are a valuable way to think (and argue) about the world. For the scientific method of discovery, theories are essential. Theories are the starting point from which all systematic efforts can be directed for a theory is fundamental in the first step of the scientific method- conceptualizing the problem. Specifically, a theory is a set of interconnected statements that describe imperceptible, unobservable processes, events, or structures and relate them to each other and to observable events. In psychology, a theory provides general principles that help us to observe, explain, and stage, theory, stages, child, theories, development, reasoning, cognitive, children, social, versus, learning, each, through, identity, developmental, childhood, proposed, thought, moral, middle, mental, behavior, view, operations, operational, one, major, during, adolescents, words, values, skills, scientific, personality