Explaining Children's Development

Why is it important to utilize developmental theory to explain children's development?
It is important to utilize development theory to explain how children grow over the course of their childhood. We have heard many different theories so to speak from our parents and grandparents as to why children behave and socialize in certain ways. These ways of thinking goes back centuries ago. In the past people thought of children as little adults. Developmental theories conducted by scientist and researchers found that this cannot be further from the truth.
Identify and briefly describe the key points of one of the major developmental theories and why you feel that theory is applicable to child and/or adolescent development There are many developmental theories; however, a few have become quite common and used frequently today to explain child development. Piaget’s Cognitive Theory, Vygotsky’s Theory (Zone of Proximal Development) and Information-Processing theory are the ones we refer to the most. The Piaget’s
They include things like behavior explanations to home remedies for illnesses. I can remember my grandmother saying “If you walk barefoot all day your feet will continue to grow”. We truly believed her and wore shoes everywhere. As I look back, we were not so much worried whether or not that was true, but were not about to fine out. This why scholarly research is so important. Most older people (grandparents) will believe something their entire life without knowing the fact. I must admit most doesn’t care whether it’s valid, at that matters was that is what their parents told them so that’s all that matter. Research helps us not to give our children a more informed and factual analysis. The video also explains the hindsight bias. This is where statistics is presented and the person would agree regardless of knowing the truth. They respond as if they knew that all along (Beatty,