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• Human Development


  Three aspects or domains: Physical Development, Cognitive Development, Psychosocial Development
• Physical Development


  • Covers the growth of the body and brain, motor and sensory skills and even physical health
• Cognitive Development


  • Covers our capacity to learn, to speak, to understand, to reason, and to create
• Psychosocial Development


  • Includes social interactions with other people, our emotions, attitudes, self-identity, personality, beliefs and values
• Factors influencing human development

  • Heredity
  • Environment
  • Maturation
• Heredity


  Inborn traits passed on by the generations of offsprings from both sides of the biological parents' families
• Environment


  World outside of ourselves and the experiences that result from our contact and interaction with this external world
• Maturation


  Natural progression of the brain and the body that affects the cognitive, psychological, and social dimension of a person
• Personal


  Belonging or relating to a particular person; Made or designed to be used by one person; Someone whose job involves working for or helping a particular reason; Relating to, or affecting a particular person
• Personal


  • This is just my personal opinion
  • I can only tell you what I know from personal experience
  • We do not accept personal checks
• Personality


  The set of emotional qualities, ways of behaving that makes a person different from other people; Attractive qualities that make a person interesting or pleasant to be with; Distinction of excellence of personal and social traits; also a person having such quality
• Personality


  • He has a very pleasant personality
  • We all have different personalities
  • He has many personality
  • He wants to buy a car who has personality
• Development


  The act of process of growing or causing something to grow or become larger or more advanced; The act or process of creating something over a period of time; The state of being created or made more advanced
• Personal Development


  Capacity to reflect upon itself, and in the process develop self-awareness, become motivated, and then desire to grown and change for the better; and are prompted to mature and improve until it reaches its desired level of development. It is therefore, natural for human beings to develop toward maturity fullness.
• Personal Development


  Defined as a process in which persons reflect upon themselves, understand who they are, accept what they discover about themselves, and learn new set of values, attitudes, behavior and thinking skills to reach their fullest potential as human beings
• Personal Development


  The process of striving to be the best that you can be in order to reach and realize your full potential. It is a journey of self-discovery, self-improvement and self-realization.
• Origins of Personal Development

  • Western Philosophers
  • The caveman who drew figures on their cave walls attempted to narrate their experiences such as hunting
  • Plato argued that building character, as much as intelligence, is what education is all about
  • The great Chinese being will always desire to become the "superior man", not just to his peers and followers, but to himself most specially
  • Even religions may have influenced personal development through their adherence to many rituals in self-discipline, meditation, prayer physical exercises and creatives acts of expression such as singing, dancing and acting