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    Human development encompasses four main domains: physical, cognitive, social-emotional, and language development. Each domain influences the others. Physical development refers to biological changes in the body and brain, including motor skill development from core to extremities. Cognitive development involves changes in thinking and reasoning, progressing from sensorimotor to formal operational stages. Social-emotional development concerns connecting with others and understanding emotions, developing through relationships from infancy onward.

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    Human development encompasses four main domains: physical, cognitive, social-emotional, and language development. Each domain influences the others. Physical development refers to biological changes in the body and brain, including motor skill development from core to extremities. Cognitive development involves changes in thinking and reasoning, progressing from sensorimotor to formal operational stages. Social-emotional development concerns connecting with others and understanding emotions, developing through relationships from infancy onward.

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    Human development encompasses four main domains: physical, cognitive, social-emotional, and language development. Each domain influences the others. Physical development refers to biological changes in the body and brain, including motor skill development from core to extremities. Cognitive development involves changes in thinking and reasoning, progressing from sensorimotor to formal operational stages. Social-emotional development concerns connecting with others and understanding emotions, developing through relationships from infancy onward.

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    Domains of Development

    Human development is comprised of four major domains: physical development, cognitive


    development, social-emotional development, and language development. Each domain, while unique in
    it's own, has much overlap with all other domains. It is important to understand these concepts,
    because everything related to human development can be traced back to these four domains.

    Physical Development

    Physical development is defined as the biological changes that occur in the body and brain, including
    changes in size and strength, integration of sensory and motor activities, and development of fine and
    gross motor skills.

    Physical development in children follows a directional pattern. Muscles in the body's core, legs and arms
    develop before those in the fingers and hands. Children learn how to perform gross (or large) motor
    skills such as walking before they learn to perform fine (or small) motor skills such as drawing. Muscles
    located at the core of the body become stronger and develop sooner than those in the feet and hands.
    Physical development goes from the head to the toes.

    Cognitive development

    Cognitive development is defined as the changes in the way we think, understand, and reason about the
    world.

    Stages of Cognitive Development

     The Sensorimotor Stage: A period of time between birth and age two during which an infant's
    knowledge of the world is limited to his or her sensory perceptions and motor activities.
    Behaviors are limited to simple motor responses caused by sensory stimuli.
     The Preoperational Stage: A period between ages two and six during which a child learns to use
    language. During this stage, children do not yet understand concrete logic, cannot mentally
    manipulate information and are unable to take the point of view of other people.
     The Concrete Operational Stage: A period between ages seven and eleven during which
    children gain a better understanding of mental operations. Children begin thinking logically
    about concrete events, but have difficulty understanding abstract or hypothetical concepts.
     The Formal Operational Stage: A period between age twelve to adulthood when people
    develop the ability to think about abstract concepts. Skills such as logical thought, deductive
    reasoning and systematic planning also emerge during this stage.
    Social-emotional Development

    Social-emotional development is defined as the changes in the ways we connect to other individuals and
    express and understand emotions.

     The core features of emotional development include the ability of a child to identify and
    understand their own feelings, to accurately read and comprehend emotional states of others,
    to manage strong emotions and their expression in a beneficial manner, to regulate their own
    behavior, to develop empathy for others, and to establish and maintain relationships.
     Healthy social-emotional development for infants and toddlers develops in an interpersonal
    context, specifically that of positive ongoing relationships with familiar and nurturing adults.
    Emotion and cognition work together, informing the child’s impressions of situations and
    influencing behavior.
     Children will experience a range of emotional and cognitive development related to interactions
    and relationships with adults and peers, identity of self, recognition of ability, emotional
    expression, emotional control, impulse control, and social understanding.

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