Developmental_Stages

University of Phoenix Material Developmental Stages Matrix Complete the matrix by listing out the various changes in each age group. |Developmental Stage |Physical changes |Cognitive changes |Socioemotional changes | |Infancy |Rapid increase in height and weight. |Driven towards a goal by accommodation and |Social awareness heightens. | | | |coordination of reflexes. | | | |Gross motor skills improve. | |Emotionally responsive to familiar people or | | | |Active exploration through experimenting. |strangers. | | |Head circumference increases to accommodate brain | | | | |development. |Anticipate solving problems. |Self-awareness improves. | | | |Speak in full sentences. | | | | | |Learns synchrony. Attachment and independence. | | | |Responding to people and objects. | | |Early Childhood |Baby fat turns to muscles and lower body lengthens. |Very talkative and ask a lot of questions. |Emotions are regulated and controlled, | | | | | | | |Small appetite and now start to become very picky |Very curious and observant. |More attuned to past experiences. | | |eater. | | | | | |Self-centered in thoughts. |More confidence and independence is shown. | | |Growth is now steady and body becomes proportionately| | | | |thinner. |Vocabulary becomes more developed and discusses |Self-motivated. | | | |anything. | | | |Dramatic improvement in gross motors skills. | | | |Middle Childhood |This is the age between 8 and 11 years old. Growth |At this stage there is a fast expansion of mental |More autonomy from parents and family. A more solid | | |spurts occur in this stage of development, a rise in |skills. They have a superior aptitude to explain |awareness of what is right and what is wrong. They | | |weight and height occurs intermittently. |incidents and discuss ideas and emotions. This is |also have a greater awareness of the future. And a | | |Muscular development occurs as well, the child’s |also the age where there is less focus on self and |budding comprehension about their position in the | | |larger muscles and more matured than smaller ones and|more on others. They exhibit adult like judgment but |world. More concentration on friendships. | | |they have the capacity to run extended distances. |their interpretation is restricted to tangible, real | | | |They are able to throw a ball and catch it. Their |life circumstances. | | | |gross motor skills are more refined than the fine |Children at this phase also turn into better | | | |ones as well. |communicators with the improvement of cognition, but | | | | |they nonetheless learn language typically from the | | | | |perspective of dialogue. | |