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Post Natal - Nurturing Or Lack Of And Its Efffects On Child

Post Natal – Nurturing or Lack of and its effects on a Child

Jorrel Bond Archuleta
Psychology 101-005
Spring 07

Nurturing a child can be thought of as, in some sense, building a foundation for adulthood. This multi-dimensional subject covers the three aspects of maturation or child development. Cognitive development includes neurological processes including self thought, self awareness, logical reasoning and concepts along those lines. Nourishing physical attributes include brain and motor development, such as neural networks and a maturing nervous system. Social nurturing from a care giver is very important. Human tend to be very social creatures. By showing and teaching a young person what to do it makes an imprint of how they should act socially around public. As stated before the three subjects are interwoven and if one aspect is off then it will definitely affect the child when adulthood is reached. The child's mind is resilient but then fragile at the same time. Undernourished minds produce undernourished results.

What is cognitive development? The term cognitive refers to the mental processes of perception, memory, judgment, and reasoning, as contrasted with emotional and volitional processes. So when a child is born their brain are actually the most under developed organ, and through cognition usage the brain grows and organizes itself in thought. A child's mind is like a sponge soaking up whatever its environment around them is producing. Like programming a computer a child's mind picks up sensory experiences and uses them for future references. Psychologist, Jean Piaget was intrigued with the child mind. He wanted to know why children minds work the way they do. He proposed that the cognitive part of a child's maturation was composed of stages ranging from age. He saw that there was a pattern in the way that children would interact with things at different parts of the childhood. The first stage is named sensorimotor and this is where the...