2. The principle of child development show how a
child develops in the few years of life!
Generally, All the children pass through the
same stage of development.
3. Principle of Continuity.
Principle of individual difference.
Principle of uniformity of pattern.
Principle of Rate of Growth and Development
is Not Uniform.
Principle of Development proceed from
General to Specific Response.
Principle of Inter-relation.
4. Principle of Integration.
Principle of Development is predictable.
Principle of Development Direction.
Principle of Development is Spiral and Not
Linear.
Principle of Growth and Development is a
joint product of Both Heredity and
Environment.
6. Its never ending process.
It start with conception and end with death
(Womb to Tomb).
7. “Individual differences are found in all
psychological characteristics physical mental
abilities, knowledge, habit, personality and
character traits.’’( Woodworth,R.S. and
Marquis,D.G)
8. The process of development has uniformity
and few individual differences.
E.g this development starts from head. and
the milk teeth falls first.
9. Different part of body grow at different rates.
all parts of body can never grow at the same
rate.
At birth ,head is one fourth of the body in
lengths. later other parts of body grow very
fast till it reaches maturation.
10. Development proceed from general to
specific response
E.g infant show his happiness by total bodily
expression but when they grow order then
they give response with smile.
11. The Growth and development in various
dimensions like physical, mental, social, etc
are inter-related and interdependent.
12. It is true that development proceed from
general to specific or from whole to parts.
It is also seen that specific response or parts
movements are combined in the later of
learning or development.
13. Development is predictable because we know
that the particular age at which children we
learn to walk, speak and so on.
But its does not mean that every child will
develop in the same way.
Because every child has a unique personality.
15. The child does not proceed straightly on the
path of development with constant.
Actually he makes advancement during a
particular period but takes rest in the text
following period, to consolidate his
development.
In advancing further therefore, he turns back
and then moves forward again like a spiral.
16. Development is caused by both heredity and
environment. Child at any stage of his
growth and development is a joint product of
both heredity and environment.
17. John Dollard and Neal Miller attempted to
combine the two originally working with rate,
Dollard & Miller found that they could apply
many aspects of animal research to human
beings. They proposed a new theory in
behaviorism called reinforcement theory
18. In social learning theory , Albert Bandura
(1977)agree with the behaviorist learning
theories of classical conditioning and
operant conditioning. However , he adds two
important ideas:
Mediating processes occur between stimuli &
responses.
Behavior is learned from the environment
through the process of observational
learning.
