DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS

The path that leads the infant to adulthood is long (16 years on average), unlike the development in the animal kingdom, and these stages that we grow are the main objects of study of a science called psychology of the child.

What does psychology?

"Psychology" comes from the Greek "psukhê" which means soul and "logos" which means science.

Psychology is the scientific study of psychic phenomena which means all ways of thinking, feelings, states of consciousness. This is a new science, philosophy derived from a century ago and based on observation of human behavior, experiences, statistical and mathematical models to develop theoretical models.

Experimental psychology whose goal is the discovery of general laws which regulate human behavior was divided into several areas according to the object under study:



- The study of animal behavior (animal psychology)
- The study of physiological responses such as hunger, thirst, sleep, hot / cold, etc. ... (psychophysiology)
- The study of child development (developmental psychology)
- The study of language development (psycholinguistics)
- The study of individual performance compared (differential psycho)
- The study of group behavior (social psychology).

This is the psychology of the child that we note here an attempt to understand the main stages of our development from birth to adulthood. This science studies the mental growth and development of behavior (that is to say our behavior including our consciousness) while we grow.

Mental growth is inseparable from the physical growth that is to say that intellectual development is directly related to motor development. Thus, the infant who can not even move from his crib alone has a limited exploration of the outside world, so it is limited in his thinking and of seeing the world due to the limitations of its own shares.

Finally, this development also depends on the intellectual influences of the environment (attention and stimulation provided by his surroundings: family, school, and lifestyle: travel, removals etc ...).

Swiss psychologist and a researcher named Jean Piaget, has studied extensively the behavior of children by observing their responses in specific situations. From his numerous works, he defined the stages of intellectual development and motor.