Kade Royce
Psychology 1100
I have learned many things in this class, when I first started this class I was unclear on
exactly to be expected. I learned many of things that deals with kids on their learning process and
why they do certain things. It was a fun and interesting class, it was great to meet everyone in
that class and learn everything that was taught. In the beginning I learned about nature vs.
nurture. Where they debate on how much characteristics of growing up comes from nature or
nurture. I feel that from all I learned both, nature and nurture are part of the characteristics of
everyone, there might be more of one then the other but I think it depends on the person. There
are domains of human development, the Biosocial Development, Cognitive Development, and
Psychosocial Development. The Biosocial Development is like the changes that occur in the
body such as genes and what not. For the Cognitive Development is the thought process and
knowledge. The Psychosocial Development is like social skills emotions, culture family ex…
In the process of learning these things we also so learned about cohort which is a group
of same age that move throughout life together experiencing many of the same things but are
influenced by their values, culture and more in their time period. We learned about Erik
Erikson’s stages that were partly built on Freud’s theory. There was eight stages one trust vs.
mistrust, second autonomy vs. shame doubt, third initiative vs. guilt, forth industry vs.
inferiority, fifth identity vs. role confusion, sixth intimacy vs. isolation, seventh generatively vs.
stagnation, eighth integrity vs. despair. Which some of this was followed throughout some of the
semester? We learned some of the area on genetic and we watched a video on birth. That video
was interesting on how much I learned about the male and female aspects on how the whole
process of getting pregnant.
We went on to learn the first few years of growing up and the development of the brain.
We found out some of the things children do are not just because they do it but because it’s a
learning process for them. That they are developing a thought process from smiling at things they
like to not smiling at things they don’t like. We found out on certain ages from smiling to
walking on how each stage they move from moving their arm playing with something to
crawling, and also to their sight on when they focus on something to remembering that object
when it leaves and reappears. We also learned about their memory process and how they learn at
a certain age when they hide something then you ask them were it is they go right to the place it
was hidden. Their first words are great on how they actually learn it from us but not just the word
but on sentences.
We then learned about the early child hood on the development. The emotions they start
to grow as well as the obstacles with logic behind it that they soon start to develop and start to
show. On how their vocabulary explodes and at early ages they know about 500 by age two and
by age 6 they know about 10,000. We learned of Piaget’s experiment of the glass treatment. How
if you take one glass that is full of water and you poor it into another taller glass and then ask the
five year old witch has more or if they are the same the five year old would say the taller glass
has more not seeing the quantity of the water did not change.
Moving on we then learned about the middle childhood. This talked about memory which
was sensory memory, working memory, long-term memory, and storage and retrieval. We then
learned about the process on learning, and learning language and how it affected them. We also
learned on the structure of families, being in a single parent home, or home with many relatives.
Trouble in the home as well as low income had effects on children and the growing up process.
We also talked about peer and friendship and social awareness, and rejected children.
Soon we moved on to adolescence and talked about puberty menarche and spermarche. I
learned about the development on the body and the changes both boys and girls go through with
the changes of hormones. The influence of age plays roles on when we go through puberty but
most start at an age of twelve or so and last till ages around eighteen or later depending on the
individual. Structure of body fat and the eating habits are part of puberty as well as the sexual
aspects play a part. We then learned about parts on confusion of one’s identity and sexuality,
which includes religious aspects, straight or gay, achievement, friends and family, and peers
influence. There is also depression and stress that comes into play when being an adolescence
and going through this part of life. One might be going through drugs and breaking the law or
may not fall into that part of life style depending on the way of life they are in at this time. We
soon went on to adulthood and the feelings of intimacy on worth of school and career. Also we
talked about health and the overeating of the nature of adulthood, and the way of life in
adulthood.
We moved to late adulthood and how the dependence grows to needing more help. The
life of late adulthood becomes more of unhealthiness and comes to the age of fear of death,
which brings some to the stage of regrets or the stage of the thought of things you wished you
could have done or did do. It comes to loss of memory and more diseases that may become part
of your life, but also the life of living a long and healthy life. Some still have a good and active
life of being old, they still might travel and exercise, and enjoy life very well. They enjoy telling
stories. We learned about death and that most fear of dying not the after math of being dead.
Many people fear death because it is an unknown aspect.
This was a very fun class, there are probably many things I did not write about that we
learned but these were many things I remember. I enjoyed this class very much and I am able to
use a lot that I learned in here in my every day of life, especially with my kids growing up. I can
hopefully use this to have a better chance of being a good parent.