Social Development in Child Development Process

Running head: SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
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1SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Social development plays a crucial role in child development process as it refers to the
method through which a child adapts and learns different ways to interact or communicate
with other peer members around them. Child development is completed devoted to
understand the change and constancy of a child from conception to adolescence. Various
developmental theories are also present that explains various events faced by a child during
their entire lifecycle such as Freud’s theory, Erikson’s theory, social and behaviourism theory
and Piaget’s cognitive-Developmental theory (Ramtohul & Eriksen, 2018).
Self-concept:
Age Milestone Sign
1-2 years  Creates unambiguous
body self-awareness
with minimum scale
errors.
 Develop self-
recognition and can
self-image to identify
themselves and by
end of this phase can
use pronoun to
mention their name or
self (Berk, 2014).
 Increase awareness of
self-identification as
physically different
from the surroundings
 Self-recognition
 Enhance ability to
think and imagine
3-5 years  Develops self-concept
comprising of
emotions, attitudes
and observable
characteristics
 Cognitive
development
 Psychological
development

2SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
 The mind expands the
desire theory into
belief-desire theory
by developing an
understanding of false
beliefs
 Adapts perceptual
attributes,
competency, badness
and goodness.
 Expanded thought
process
Self-concept is defined as a set of attitudes, abilities, values and attributes that a child
believe they have in themselves. The child gain positivity and confidence within themselves
with a power of independence and improved behaviours. The psychological development of a
child during self-concept is influenced by different set of factors that includes cultural, social
and cognitive factors influencing power of self-concept in a child (Berk, 2014).
Self-esteem:
Age Milestone Sign
1-2 years  Manifestation of
pleasure or desire in
mastery is evident
 Sensitivity to grown-
ups’ valuations
appears (Berk, 2014).
 Emotional
development
 More thoughtful
3-5 years  High level of self-
esteem that comprises
of various distinct
self-evaluations
 Appearance of
achievement
 Understanding of self
 Decision making
ability