...Abed Dakhel THEO-107 Prof. Mc Carthy Loyola University of Chicago Religion and Human Development Paper Evolutionary psychologists have struggled throughout the years to reveal the secret behind the human belief in the existence of a God and strong faith in divine revelations of a religion. Some psychologists claim that the human brain is developmentally predisposed to believe in a God or some sort of celestial being and that having a strong faith in religion stops one's awareness from growing maturely because it maintains a closed minded perception of reality. Others claim that such religious experiences create a sense of purpose and meaning in life. In order to react to this argument, we will first review two of the main theoretical approaches to the understanding of maturity and then take a position on this argument....
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...Implications for Human Resource Development Paper BSHS/425 February 29, 2016 Ashley Huffman Implications for Human Resource Development Paper As explained in our text book Management of Human Service Programs, 5th ed “diversity is both a goal and a process to be managed” (Lewis, Lewis and Packard, 2012). Diversity can sometime be complicated with regards to fully understanding it. In addition there are many values to being diverse; however with diversity comes (organizational) discrimination. Today we will discuss diversity’s role within the workplace, its implications for human resource development, and discrimination. Diversity and Discrimination Defined Diversity can be defined as more than one type, ideas, cultures, and race (Merriam Webster, n.d). Diversity’s role within the workplace aides in areas like increased company exposure, conflict resolution, and networking. Discrimination is defined as “the practice of unfairly treating a person or group of people differently from other people or groups of people” (Merriam Webster, n.d ). Discrimination role within a workplace is not tolerate. In addition there are laws in place that prohibited discrimination in almost all forms and types. Discrimination at Play An over 50 year women name Beth was hired to work as part of the senior management team for an automobile manufacturing company. Prior to her hire the senior management team was made up of 7 males, making her the only female on this team. The practice of this...
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...Implications for Human Resource Development Paper BSHS/425 DISCRIMINATION AT THE WORKPLACE I for one have never been discriminated against at my place of employment. Although I have never been personally discriminated against, I have however witnessed a co-worker of mine being discriminated against by another colleague. The girl that was doing the discriminating was young and naïve, she thought she could do or say whatever she wanted without any kind of repercussions. She didn’t care about anyone’s feelings, even if they were her elder or her superior. The way she portrayed herself was that she felt as if she was better than everyone else and was untouchable. During the altercation she had walked up to another one of my colleagues and asked them a question and when they answered her she obviously didn’t like the answer because she used some very derogatory language as well as comment on their race in a not so very nice way. After numerous objections about her behavior and then the report that was made about her discriminating against a co-worker, she was put on probation and had to attend several different sessions on discrimination in the workplace, diversity education, etc. Normally I would say that she should have been terminated, but in this case she really did make an effort to change the way she treated people after attending the sessions and being on probation. She genuinely apologized and turned things around completely. There is a lot more discrimination in the...
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...Growth and Development Paper ECE 205 February 20, 2012 The first years of life are the most important stage of human development. During the early childhood years, the brain goes through drastic changes that are influenced by our genes, as well as our environment. It is the responsibility of adults in our society to take care of their children’s emotional and cognitive needs of children in order to see the progress in each child individually. In this paper I will describe how the concept of development differs from the concept of growth. I will summarize the domains of development and analyze each developmental milestone and the purpose of each. Finally I will identify and explain the factors that might contribute to atypical development. “An understanding of child development is essential, allowing us to fully appreciate the cognitive, emotional, physical, social and educational growth that children go through from birth and into early adulthood” (Cherry, 2012). Infants, toddlers, and children all have particular capabilities and needs. Even though it may not seem like it, growth and development are two different things. There are no similarities between growth and development, and it is easy to distinguish the two. Development “relates to qualitative basis while growth is to quantitative measurement”. In other words, development takes place mentally and in the knowledge and skills children produce. Children with developmental...
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... Once humans started sharing ideas with one another language was born. Even before that because our thoughts are formed by our language. And yet a greater miracle than language itself is the development of language in a young child. Experts still disagree on how exactly language is developed but there are universal truths about the process. As early childhood professionals it is our job to promote the growth and development of language skills at this important phase of life. There are many activities that while are not centered around a book or reading, can effectively promote language skills such as: listening, comprehension, letter and word recognition and early speech formation. Language and cognitive development go hand in hand, as children learn about their world they also learn how to talk and communicate with themselves as well as others. Therefore early language activities should focus on building cognition. In the class I am part of our teacher has built an amazing curriculum based on the advancement of a child’s ability. Taking from her I have created a list of activities. Morning Greeting would be the first activity. During this time students will be encouraged to use language and socialize with each other. All students will address each other by name or at least be addressed by the teacher. This process will be the opening of the day and promote social language the minute they enter the classroom Circle Time: A huge portion of language development will...
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...Running Head: HSCO 500 – RESEARCH PAPER TOPIC Overcoming a Forced Disability Promises R. Huff Liberty University HSCO 500 – Introduction to Human Services For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. Romans 8:18 – 21 What is disability? Disability is the consequence of an impairment that may be physical, cognitive, mental, sensory, emotional, developmental, or some combination of these. A disability may be present from birth, or occur during a person’s lifetime. What is child molestation? Child molestation is a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent uses a child for sexual stimulation. I choose to research the effects of experiencing child molestation has on the mental, emotional, and human development of an individual. Research becomes more attractive and trustworthy when the researcher is able to provide concrete evidence to support noted hypothesis and or theories. Throughout my research paper, theories and documented claims will be utilized...
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...Chapter One – Reflection Paper The first chapter of our text, Organizing Themes in Development, discussed several theories past and present about human development that are critical for a counselor to possess a solid, thorough understanding so they can draw upon this information to help solve problems and find solutions for the client. The theoretical lens that best fits with my view of human development would be the multidimensional / systems theories because there are so many different aspects that are influencing development and that are influenced by development. In particular, I felt Bronfenbrenner’s Bioecological Theory as well as Life Span Developmental Theory make the most sense. My initial thoughts on the major issues in development such as continuity and discontinuity are to side with continuity, in that development changes steadily and over a period of time versus rapid and only during the transitions between stages. In regard to nature and nurture, I feel that the book is accurate in stating on page 18 that they are interdependent upon one another versus separate and “against” one another. Regarding universality and specificity, Sternberg’s findings on page 21 shows that we must use a multi cultural approach to fit in with our multi cultural world that exists now. Finally, in regard to activity and passivity, I feel that the term the book used of bidirectionality on page 23 accurately to illustrate the “organism and the environment changing each other”. ...
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...AND LEADERSHIP COLLEGE, DEPARTMENT OF LEADERSHIP HUMAN DEVELOPMENT THE CASE MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE CHANGE THROUGH Submitted by: Gutema Eggie; ID No.: LE/159/05 Program: MA Submitted to: Mr. ___________ Term Paper Submitted for the Partial Fulfillment of the course Human Development Addis Ababa TABLE OF CONTENTS | | page | 1. Introduction ------------------------------------------------------------ 2. My Experience while I was 3-7 years-------------- 3. THE AGE FROM 8-12 SCHOOL AND ANOTHER SOCIAL ACTIVITY------------ 4. The age between 13-18 (Success and Disaster age) total change | 2334 | | INTRODUCTION Human Development: human development is a long or short duration of time process encompass in gradual, sequential, and even ordinary change of an organism through time from lower part to some higher position in three most important Areas. These three important developmental changes areas are: physical, cognitive, and emotional-social. In the process of development, all these three fundamental changes may cannot take place in equal proportion or in the same speed of development in an individual. Some of them moving with constant speed for some time and decrease its speed the other time. Some of them may take place soon and in an irregular speed. For example human physical developmental change from the age of the...
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...The first years of life are the most important stage of human development. During the early childhood years, the brain goes through drastic changes that are influenced by our genes, as well as our environment. It is the responsibility of adults in our society to take care of their children’s emotional and cognitive needs of children in order to see the progress in each child individually. In this paper I will describe how the concept of development differs from the concept of growth. I will summarize the domains of development and analyze each developmental milestone and the purpose of each. Finally I will identify and explain the factors that might contribute to atypical development. “An understanding of child development is essential, allowing us to fully appreciate the cognitive, emotional, physical, social and educational growth that children go through from birth and into early adulthood” (Cherry, 2012). Infants, toddlers, and children all have particular capabilities and needs. Even though it may not seem like it, growth and development are two different things. There are no similarities between growth and development, and it is easy to distinguish the two. Development “relates to qualitative basis while growth is to quantitative measurement”. In other words, development takes place mentally and in the knowledge and skills children produce. Children with developmental difficulty because of a disorder, special needs, etc., can gain from participating in a program with a...
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...Growth and Development Sophie Evans Jill Windes ECE205 11/19/12 Growth and Development Many people use growth and development interchangeably when they are actually two separate things. Growth is physical changes leading to increase in size (Allen, 2009). Growth is measured; “the growth rate is rapid during the prenatal, neonatal, infancy and adolescent stages and slows during childhood” (Scibd, 2012). In comparison, development refers to an increase in complexity-a change from the relatively simple to the more complicated and detailed (Allen, 2009). Development is not growth as in when a child increases in size, but it is the growth of behavior;”development is also influenced by heredity, environmental factors, culture, and family values unique to each individual” (Allen, 2009). Growth is measured by charts whereas there are domains of development that are met to measure the growth of development. In this paper I am going to discuss the six major areas of development domains, an analysis of developmental milestones, and explain factors of what can contribute to atypical development. There are six major areas of developmental domains: physical, motor, perceptual, cognitive, speech and language, and social-emotional. Allen (2009) states, “Each is integrally related to and interdependent with each of the others in the overall developmental process” (pg. 35). Basically, one area of development is influenced by another area of development and so on and so forth...
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...Foundations of Human Development in the Social Environment Paper University of Phoenix Human Systems and Development BSHS/325 Foundations of Human Development in the Social Environment Paper The foundational concepts of Human development from conception through childhood show that biological, psychological, and social conditions are all systematically connected and they adhere to an underlying intelligible order that exists in our world. General System’s theory shows that the social, biological, and psychological milestones in a person’s life fit together to form a larger picture of development that when studied as a whole can change how social service providers approach common issues in their field of care. General systems theory is really about order but has been transformed into a science of wholeness. General systems theory talks about why there seems to be an underlying intelligible order to the world. The basis for all scientific research is based on the assumption that there is a general order to our world and we can seek to understand how all the pieces are connected and form a larger picture. General systems theory is full of abstract concepts but when applied from a social systems perspective can be useful in understanding social order. Society is part of the “whole” referred to in General systems theory and so are the people that occupy its space. A general theory of social systems encompasses the examination of composition, relationships, and patterns...
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...Divorce has become the norm in American society, but what has not become the norm are the effects that it has on children. Divorce impacts all individuals connected to the relationship but children are effected the most. Because of their innocence and immaturity they are not able to cope with the stressful events and aftermath of divorce like adults are able to. No one knows exactly how a child will react to divorce but more than not their behavior can be characterized as explosive and sporadic. The purpose of this research paper is to provide credible information on the effects that divorce has on children and the impact that it makes on their overall outlook on life before and after the divorce occurred. It will also highlight the stress that comes along with the relationship between parent and child as well as some insight on common practices used to help the children cope with the overall impact of divorce. Last but not least I will be adding some insight from my own personal experience about the effects of divorce. The demise or end of marriage has various and lasting effects on everyone connected to the couple going through that situation. Along with that comes a huge amount of stress, ill willed feelings, confusion, emptiness, and a plethora of other things that I would need three more pages to list. Children are the most vulnerable to the effects of these things. With their simple mind set and understanding of things, the concept of daddy and mommy not living...
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...Megan Jones Radford University Developmental Perspective Paper The life-span perspective views development as lifelong, multidirectional, plastic, multidisciplinary, and contextual, and as a process that involves growth, maintenance, and regulation of loss. Development is the pattern of movement or change that begins at conception and continues through the human life span. Late adulthood is the longest developmental period. It starts from ages sixty to seventy and lasts until death. Age can be described biological, cognitive, and socioemotional dimensions. Erikson’s Integrity versus Despair is the final developmental stage experienced in late adulthood. An older person will reflect on their life during these years of their lives. They will reflect and evaluate whether their life was meaningful, integrity is achieved and if not the person will go through despair. Erickson proposed that individuals go through distinct stages throughout development of the life span. For...
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...Theories of Development Matt Sellitri Psy-104 Child and Adolescence Development Allen, Craig Sept14th-2009 Thesis In my paper, on child development I will discuss three different points of view on cognitive, physical and emotional development. I will write about the three differences and similarities. I will discuss how they have an impact on the way they help in the development of children. I will explain how important child development is in regards to assisting in a child’s potential. I will show the relationship between the developmental domain and the developmental theory. I will focus on all three domains and how they influence each other. Child development is an ongoing process that goes through many complex changes. Children are in a constant state of change from the moment they are born all the way to being a young adult. They develop many characteristics and personalities such as, quantitative changes, and qualitative changes. They area key component in any childs development. There have been many scientific studies on early child development. Many theorists such as, Charles Darwin have studied and devoted a lot of time to the evolution of human development. Scientists, throughout many years have developed three separate domains. In our text, on page nine, they are listed as follows, physical development, cognitive development, and psychosocial development. Physical development is the growth of the body itself. Such as the brain, sensory...
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...2. How are the babies similar in their development? How are they different? Give specific examples. (Refer to growth and development principles discussed in class). One similarity in the development of the babies would be their response anytime they were upset - crying. Some examples would be Mari starting to cry because other kids were crying, or Baryarjargal being whipped in the face by his older brother. Another similarity is the sequential process in which they developed. For example, each baby didn’t start walking until capable of standing, and each baby didn’t start standing until capable of crawling. However, what is different in their development is the rate at which each baby progressed in the five areas of development. While one baby may learn to walk sooner, another may learn to read at a higher level than babies their age. Another difference is the language they learn growing up. Being from different parts of the world, the babies will start to make sounds closely...
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