Distinct or Preparatory Stage for Adolescence
Yenice Canas Guerrero
Whittier College
CHDV 330
Distinct or Preparatory Stage for Adolescence
Infancy, childhood, middle childhood, adolescence, adulthood; why is that list used to determine a child’s stage of development based on their age? In Child Development 330 (Middle Childhood), taught by Kay Sanders in Spring of 2018, we focused on the development of children in “middle childhood” as a distinct stage of development that can also be seen as a preparatory stage for adolescence. Middle childhood (ages 8-12) consists of school-age children who are in a transitional phase from concrete thought to operational thinking (Blume & Zembar 2007) and that are marked by social and cognitive developments that facilitate a more complex understanding of social categories and allow children to form emergent social identities (Rogers, Zosuls, Halim, Ruble, Hughes, & Fuligni 2012). Through significant research and multiple studies taken into consideration, this paper will focus on four specific domains; social, emotional, physical and cognitive (with respect to Piaget’s theoretical perspective); which will address both positive and negative outcomes…show more content… (2015). Identifying developmental cascades among differentiated dimensions of social competence and emotion regulation. Developmental Psychology, 51(8), 1062-1073.
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