Can someone stop developing cognitively, socially, and emotionally?
2006-09-27 05:31:20 · 23 answers · asked by strawberrylemonadecupcake 2 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
By developing do you mean in a positive direction? If not, then as long as we are conscious we are constantly adapting or maladapting to our environment. Short of spiritual death, or deep coma, we cannot stop or pause our constant change in these arenas. This is purely my opinion and consequently worthless, so there's no charge. d:c) I'm just passing through.
2006-09-27 05:44:19 · answer #1 · answered by Nick â? 5 · 6⤊ 0⤋
I guess you can speed up your cog-soc development or slow it down, but you cannot fully stop it. Learning is something our brain is doing all the time ... I think it should not even be considered a "function" of the brain, it is its normal operation. So, I think that while the brain is working, there is a cognitive, social, emotional, intellectual development going on, no matter what you do.
2006-09-27 12:34:41 · answer #2 · answered by ChaTo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What do you mean?
Of course it's possible, We can't avoid it. If you're taliking about death.
But on the other hand I think you are looking for challenging us...
Some people stop their own development by their own decisions. Like my students, I mean (lol). They just survive...I think they aren't living in fact.
Did you see the film: The Dead Poets Society ?
They used a latin phrase: Carpe Diem. That means: Use your time !!!
Good question
2006-09-27 12:37:42 · answer #3 · answered by Susana C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know for sure that one can start living. I've done it. My big break was when I discovered the book "What To Say When You Talk To Yourself". That said, I suppose that, given the urge to do so, one could decide to stop living by changing ones attitude.
2006-09-27 12:36:37 · answer #4 · answered by Nick 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it's total withdrawal from life. A very sad state to be in. Sadly there are lots of people hidden away with this condition.
2006-09-27 12:41:54 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No it's I'm possible, the human mind is always at work creating new i ideas and emotions towards what you see or hear, unless you are in a vegetative state
2006-09-27 12:34:57 · answer #6 · answered by Cygnus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is possible, a person could be in a coma, braindead or in solitary confinement doped up on drugs.
2006-09-27 13:42:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No i dnt think so.. But i believe that if someone could possibly have 100% control of his brain could easily do that;p but no human form can control 100% of its brain ..
2006-09-27 12:38:54 · answer #8 · answered by indie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think so... Like when a peson is really depressed and doesnt do anything.. As in get oout of bed, or just absolutly nothing.. I see them as not living.
2006-09-27 12:38:05 · answer #9 · answered by sshhmmee2000 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think yes. My friends grandpa died and her grandma just stopped living. She was healthy, but just gave up on life and three or four months later she just died. Sad huh?
2006-09-27 12:34:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋