1. What is Human Growth and Development?
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2. What is Human Growth and Development?
The study of Human Growth and Development is concerned with the degree to which human potential is achieved in individuals, social groups, and across cultures.

3. What is Human Potential?
While conception establishes human potential, the degree to which that potential is achieved depends on many factors:
The quality of the pregnancy
The quality of the birth
The nutrition provided
The care provided
The life experiences of the individual; their social circumstances; cultural impact

4. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Self Actualization (Full Potential)
Esteem Needs (Self Respect, Personal Worth, Autonomy)
Love and Belonging Needs (Love, Friendship)
Safety Needs (Security, protection from harm)
Physiological Needs (Food, Sleep, Stimulation)

5. 5 Points Integral to Understanding Human Growth and Development
Development in human beings is similar all over the world
Culture does not impact the stages that occur
Development is sequential and builds on earlier development
Ex: one must sit before one can walk
Development is individualized
While stages are reached in sequence, when each stage is reached depends on the individual
Development is interrelated
All five areas of development are connected
Development is continuous throughout life
To achieve self-fulfillment, we need to grow, learn, and change throughout life.

6. The 5 Ways We Grow and Develop
Physical
Social
Emotional
Moral
Intellectual

7. Physical Development
Physical development refers to the actual growth of the body, the physical changes that take place in the brain (and central nervous system) and a person’s ability to learn control over his or her body.
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8. Social Development
Social development is the understanding of how to act as a person living with other people. This includes understanding your role in the family, community, and the world. Following accepted rules and acting according to what others expect - from manners to conscience- and learning how to belong in society, is social development.
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9. Emotional Development
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Emotional development is the development and growth of feelings. Babies are born with the ability to feel pleasure and displeasure (happy and upset). From the time that she is born, she is realizing that she is her own person, in control of herself. Baby will begin to realize that she can make her limbs move and make thing happen; this will eventually develop into a desire to make things happen.

10. Moral Development
Moral Development is the growth of morals and belief. Much of moral development is based on family values and the mimicking of parents. Parents teach children morality by behaving morally and telling stories that show morality.
Heinz’s Dilemma
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11. Intellectual Development
Intellectual development is the ability of a person to think and reason. Jean Piaget, a Swiss natural scientist, was the first person to theorize that the growth of a child’s intellect happens in a set order of stages and continues from infancy to adulthood.
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12. What challenges do teenagers face in their physical, social, emotional, moral and intellectual development? Work in small groups to identify an issue teens face in each of these areas of their development. You may use the text as a reference.

13. Piaget’s Theory of Intellectual Development
Piaget thought that children went through the following stages:
Sensorimotor stage: from birth to age 2 years (children experience the world through movement and senses and learn object permanence)
Preoperational stage: from ages 2 to 7 (operational meaning thinking skill; words or pictures can represent something not there);
Concrete operational stage: from ages 7 to 11 (children begin to think logically about concrete events; you don’t loose water when you poor it from a tall thin cup to a short and wide cup);
Formal operational stage: after age 11 (development of abstract thinking; love, joy, kindness).