Child Development Theorists Project
By: Alyssa & Amanda
Background/Biographical Information
He was from Alma, Wisconsin. He also was one of the first psychologists to systematically describe children’s physical, social, and emotional achievements through a quantitative study of human development from birth through adolescence. He focused his research on the extensive study of a small number of children. He began with pre-school children and later extended his work to ages 5 to 10 and 10 to 16. From his findings, Gesell concluded that mental and physical development in infants, children, and adolescents are comparable and parallel orderly processes
type of theorist:
-Cognitive
-Social/emotional
-Intellectual
-Physical
description:
-Children go through preclictable stages of growth.
Six Stages:
1. Smooth
2. Break up
3. Sorting-out
4. Inwardizing
5. Expansion
6. Fitting together
stages of developement:
Equilibrium & Disequilibrium:
Children's development changes clue to a feeling of equilibrium, or calm plateus of learning, and disequlilbrium an unsettled time of rapid growth/learning.
example:
As a freshman gradually turns into a senior that freshman slowly matures.