Introduction When considering the development of the workforce in our business it is necessary to consider all aspects of the worker's development. There are more things to be considered than an employee's technical skills. We can interview and hire dozens of employees with Bachelors or Masters d...
Throughout puberty, young people develop emotionally, physically and socially. The Tanner SMR Model (1962) allows professionals to gauge the degree of pubertal maturation that has occurred among adolescents, regardless of chronological age. The scale has five stages and includes the appearance of pu...
Child development theories seek to describe, explain and predict behaviour based on the relative influences of nature (heredity and biological makeup) and nurture (interaction with the environment) (Berk, 2013). Explaining individual differences, therefore, depends on the weight of a theory's position on the roles of nature and nurture (Berk, 2013) and the influence they have on children's learning, growth, and maturation (Allen & Morotz, 2010). For example, both Piaget's cognitive-development theory and Vygotsky's sociocultural theory agree that development occurs as the...
