Social Development in Children
Every child desires to talk, eat, roam and stay with his peers. He wishes that his friends like him and has respect in his peer-group. That is why many changes in child’s behavior, dressing, speaking ways and lifestyle can be seen.
Specific patterns of social behavior during childhood
- Over-sensitivity
- Social acceptance
- Suggestion receptivity
- Responsibility
- Competition
- As a good player
- Social insight
- Social differentiation
- Biasness
- Anti-sexual expressions
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Important Points of Development in Infancy and Childhood :-
- Childhood is an extremely important step of all the steps involved in life span development. In this stage, growth and development in children takes place at a very rapid rate.
- By the end of childhood stage height of a child is 57.5 inches and weight is 48 kg.
- Malnutrition, physical weight and size, modest qualities and feeble mind, emotional condition, lack of learning opportunities, lack of encouragement, etc. are the factors affecting child’s development.
- Cognition is the ability or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses.
- A child learns to reason, contemplate, analyze, memorize by intellectual and mental development.
- Memorizing ability, reasoning ability, questioning ability, contemplating ability, generalizing ability-are some of the cognitive abilities of childhood.
- Wisdom or intellect is a strength which gives an individual the ability to adjust with the changing situations.
- Hardships of speech development are- voice defects and voice disorders such as defects in pronunciation, defects in sentence formation, (v) word meaning related defects, faulty pronunciation, unclear pronunciation, stammering, lisping and sharp obscure speech
- Bilingual in general means- ‘using two 2. languages’.
- Stages of language development- crying, blabbering, facial expressions, pronunciation, analyzing power, vocabulary, sentence formation.
- Ethical behavior is the conduct according to the ethical code of a social group.
Development in Infancy and Childhood Questions-Answers
1. Which of the following does not affect physical development?
(a) Malnutrition
(b) Nutrition
(c) Disease
(d) Fear
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2. Which of the following is a cognitive ability of childhood?
(a) Maturity
(b) Senses
(c) Reasoning ability
(d) Wisdom
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3. How many languages are used in bilingualism?
(a) Two
(b) One
(c) Three
(d) Five
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4. Which is a voice disorder?
(a) Defect in pronunciation
(b) Deaf and dumb
(c) Stammering
(d) Defect in sentence formation
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5. Which of the following is not a common emotion?
(a) Fear
(b) Smiling
(c) Anger
(d) Shyness
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