Influencing Factors
What is growth and it's indicators?
The measurable aspect of an individual's increase in physical measurements. Measured on changes in: height, weight, teeth, skeletal structure, and sexual characteristics
What is an example of a cognitive-developmental theory?
Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development
How many stages of life are included in Erikson's theory?
Eight
Explain Piaget's theory.
Addresses the development of children's intellectual organization and how they think, reason, perceive and make meaning of the physical world. The individual plays an active role in his or her development.
What is the stage called if the child can be independent and develops self-confidence?
Autonomy vs sense of shame and doubt (#2, 1-3years)
What theory successfully describes human growth and development?
All of them. No single theory addresses all of its complexities as each is unique in its own way.
If the infant is mouthing or sucking to get a pleasant result, which period does this indicate in Piaget's Theory? And what age does this go to?
Period 1: Sensorimotor (birth to 2 years of age)
If a child can successfully develop a sense of competence in the physical, cognitive, and social areas they have accomplished what stage and can lead them into positive attitudes towards working in adulthood?
Industry vs Inferiority (#4, 6-11)
How do developmental theories help you as a nurse?
They help in critical thinking skills when you consider how and why people respond the way they do.
What period and age of Piaget's theory is indicated if the child can describe a process without actually performing the activity?
Period 3: Concrete operations (7 -11)
What is a nursing implication for stage 8, integrity vs despair (65 and up)?
Promoting that older adults involve themselves in volunteering in activities that display the skills and experiences of the older people
What are the three major factors influencing human growth and development?
1. genetic or natural forces
2. the environment
3. the interaction that takes place between these two
Name a nursing implication for cognitive development.
Nurses need to provide information and support as patients come to terms with new health situations. the nurse also needs to offer positive feedback when patients successfully adapt to their challenges
What are the mechanisms of Erikson's theory?
Maturation and ego
(the developmental results of these mechanisms is epigenesis (successive gradual change)).