INTRODUCTION Young children are dependent on the care they receive from others. Kendra Cherry 2015, questioned that why it is important to study how children grow, learn, and change? She also explained that, why it is very important to understand child development, she believed that, it helps us to gain the cognitive, emotional, physical, social and educational growth that the child crosses from birth and into the early adulthood. Moreover, all the child’s physical and psychological needs must be met by one or more people who understand what infants, in general, need and what this baby, in particular, wants. Therefore, it is important to learn the major theories of child development. The four developmental theories that I am going to explain …show more content…
He believed most of Freud’s work as a starting place to develop his theory, and set eight main stages across the lifespan. Erikson believed that, in each stage we face a crisis, and we need to solve the crisis, or else later we have to face some problems. Likewise, in each crisis there are two surfaces. One is a positive trait and if we follow that we will obtain positive outcomes. Where as in the other surface, there is a negative trait, and if we follow that we will obtain negative outcomes. Furthermore, in each stage has a positive or negative outcome. The result of the stage is determined by our …show more content…
He also stated that, infants and young children understand the world much differently than adults do, and as they play and explore, their mind learns how to think in ways that better fit with reality. Moreover, Piaget believed that children learn many skills and creating ideas by interacting with the environment. He also believed that children gain knowledge continuously from their teachers and parents as well. In addition, children build on their own knowledge by using their sensory motor skills. Piaget proposed that children go through four stages of cognitive development: The table below shows Piaget’s four stages of cognitive