Developmental Theory

I have to say, I really love this stuff. Learning and understanding theory is fascinating to me, and as a history education major, I love to learn about the theories and the people behind them. I also love learning how theories evolve. Seeing such brilliant people all thinking and trying their best to understand human nature and human development is interesting, and I was particularly interested while reading about the newer theories; sociocultural theory, universal perspective, and evolutionary theory. I like these theories because they begin to look at a larger picture of the world when it comes to how human beings develop, rather than just looking at an individual human being. For example, sociocultural theory really delves into the instruction and mentoring that goes into human developing. This kind of thing requires a larger realm than just the human psychology, however, we must be aware of these older theories first if we are to successfully get into the newer theories that tend to paint a larger picture of society as a whole and how it aids in individual human development.

I think that as we continue to evolve and progress, which we will always be doing (hopefully), we will continue to build off of these theories, just as the newer theories built off of the three grand theories. In looking at it this way, our ability to obtain new information and develop new theories is a microcosm of sorts of human development. As we move forward, we can bunch different theories together to see how we have continued to develop as humans in terms of our understanding of human psychology and development as a whole.