SOCIAL SCIENCE I

Personal Development
 UNIT 1 SELF-DEVELOPMENT

• Chapter One

Let Us Have a Quick Look - An Overview of

Human Development
What are the changes that happen as you grow?
 What is human development?
• Human development is one of the most
stunning processes in life. The hallmark of
such process is change.
 What is development
• According to Neil J. Salkind (2004) it is a
progressive series of changes that occur in a
predictable pattern as the result of
interactions between biological and
environmental factors.

A scientific study of human development

attempts to understand how humans grow in
different aspects: physical, mental, emotional,
social, behavioral, and spiritual.
STAGES OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
• Sigmund Freud's Psychosexual Theory
- Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939) is a popular
psychologist whose theory human development
and personality sparked great interest, as well
as controversy, due to its biological orientation
that focuses on the psychosexual development
of an individual.
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