Sylvester Barus
Oklahoma State University
The effect of spanking children in physical, cognitive, and psychosocial development in children Spanking is a form of discipline that involves hitting a child using stick, punching, slapping, as well as any form of abuse to a child in order get hurt (Kovac, 2014). The form of spanking to children can affect children in different ways such as physical development, cognitive development and psychosocial development. Cognitive development in early childhood refers to the ability of a how a child can form some ideas when they are growing up, and how they advance their skill in a new environment. It is difficult to count the number of neurons of a child, but theories like Jean Piaget, Erickson and Lev Vygotsky’s come up with different ideas on how children are different in the way they think compared with adults during cognitive development (Klausmier,20140). …show more content…
Jean Piaget came up with an idea of reflex behavior, whereby a child will not think about what they are going to do, but they follow their own ideas that just pop up from their own mind. For example, babies begin to develop to see things permanent on the other hand, if children’s spank they will become shy, and develop less attention on their own basic needs, and therefore children will not use their own reasoning instead they rely on what they have been told by some people which my lead them into wrong direction (Takeesha,