Child Development: Theories and Impact on Growth

CHILD
DEVELOPMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Urie Bronfenbrenner model ...................................................................................................1
five ecological system............................................................................................................2
Erikson's psychosocial developmental theory........................................................................3
Piaget's cognitive theory ........................................................................................................4
Vygotsky's sociocultural theory ............................................................................................5
Resilience as per the case study..............................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Child development defined as the continuous changes in biological, psychological and
also emotional changes that will develop inside human while they came in the age of
development. This show the development between birth and the conclusion of adolescent. There
are three main type of child development stage which is early childhood, middle childhood and
adolescent age (Bailey and et. al., 2018). The early childhood has a range of infancy to age of 5-
year-old. As per this, the development of child is crucial like learning to crawl and learning to
walk these all aspect is developing during early development age of child. This state that, at
every stage the development and formulation of personality of child is initiated, this initiation
cause many of physical, biological and emotional changes. So, as per the given study, this report
refers as the child development, which is facing issue and stress regards with family. As per the
additional theory and evidence this reports defined various aspect of growing pattern of a child.
Some deviation is caused due to stress or by abnormal situation in phase of child development
(Walker 2017).
MAIN BODY
Urie Bronfenbrenner model
The child development has many of vital concept in all which there is and American
psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner who was discussed on theories of child development. He
studied about various aspect of children in unfamiliar laboratory environment with one other
person (Boyette 2016). This concept is usually based on stranger, where the theory is ecological
invalid this is elaborated by Mary Ainsworth in 1970 on their experiment strange situation. As
per the given case study, Sarah do not interact with people and negotiating herself to make new
friend. She resists herself to go with stranger and make new relation with them. This indicate that
her behaviour is disturb because of their family issue, which make her do not trustful for the
strange people. In this context, Urie Bronfenbrenner claimed that the studies which is based on
unidirectional meaning that the experimental studies which is analysed to influence A and B. for
example stranger/ mother with a child. Whether, looking on the possible influence of child and
stranger/ mother or by interruption of influences.
Bronfenbrenner used to do these research in well maintained way as per this the
laboratory feature of this research are usually not characterized with environments that should
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