Significant

• Significant facts about development

  1. Early foundations are critical.

  2. Roles of maturation and learning in development.

  3. Development follows a definite and predictable pattern.
• Law of developmental direction

  Cephalocaudal law - development spreads over the body from head to foot.

  Proximodistal law - development spreads outward from the central axis of the body to the extremities.
• Significant facts about development

  4. All individuals are different.

  5. Each phase of development has characteristics pattern of behavior.
• 6. Each phase of development has hazards.
• 7. Development is aided by stimulations.
• 9. There is social expectations for every stage of development.
• 8. Development is affected by cultural changes.
• Developmental tasks - a task which arises at or about a certain period in the life of the individual.
• Purpose:

  - Guidelines

  - Motivates individual

  - Shows individuals what lies ahead
• Hazards:

  inappropriate expectations
• Hazards:

  bypassing of a stage of development
• Hazards:

  crises when passing from one stage to another