...There are various stages to experience in life that leads to success. According to Erik Erikson these stages are infancy, early childhood, middle childhood and adolescence. Throughout the course we have been introduced to a number of psychologists that have developed their own theory of how people develop into successful or unsuccessful adults. This expository paper will cover the theory of Erikson's psychosocial stages during development, the influences that culture has and the cognitive, social and physical changes a teenager will experience. But does Erikson's theory on adolescence development truly hold a solid structure for a child's success? Adolescence is the age stage of 11-18, the period of life between childhood and adulthood where...
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...Erikson’s theory states “individuals not only develop a unique personality, but also acquire attitudes and skills that make them active, contributing members of their society that recognize the development throughout a lifespan and the impact of culture” (Berk, 2014. p. 16). Based on Erickson’s eight stages, when a child is in the early childhood stage of development, they are considered to be in the initiative versus guilt stage. Just as the term indicates, initiative is when the child begins to try new things, is able to successfully communicate with their peers, and has high levels of curiosity about new concepts and objects. When receiving support from family members and the community, children are more likely to become a major contributor to society. However, when a child is criticized or under strict control, the child may develop a sense of guilt (McLeod, 2017). This stage is critical for a child as they discover themselves and try to understand their beliefs and purpose in life. Middle Childhood Developmental Stage...
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...Erik Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development has eight stages. In the paper three of his life stages will be reviewed. Those stages are Trust vs. Mistrust, Industry vs. Inferiority and Integrity vs. Despair. This paper will also discuss personal or observed experiences within those stages, as well as an opinion if Eric Erikson’s description has accurate or not. A small discussion will be included as to how any of these experiences may have affected spiritual development along the way. Trust vs. Mistrust The first stage, commonly referred to as infancy, in Erik Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development is Trust vs. Mistrust. During this stage of life, infants are unsure of the world in which they live in. They must learn to trust their...
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...aware of developmental stages and trends in order to fit care and support for the people we work with accurately. Erikson states that if a person does not transition from one developmental stage to another effectively this can cause problems in later stages and create a sense of fixation. Children develop in different stages and in different ways. A method that has been used to explore these developmental milestones is observation. Observations involve watching a child for sometime in order to understand how he or she perceives and interacts with the world. attributes physically, cognitively and socially of two children, one male and one female, ages five and ten, respectively. This writer will identify the socio-economic status (SEC), age, gender, ethnic background, and family demographics of each of these children. The two children this writer has chosen come from similar living situations (i.e. they both live with single mothers), but have vast differences in their physical, cognitive, and social development. This paper will examine Erik Erikson's Eight Psychosocial Stages as explained by Dacey, Fiore, Travers (2009) in an effort to explain the noticeable differences in the two children that this writer has chosen to observe. These two children were chosen because they are both being raised in a single parent household, which is something that this writer can relate to, as this writer is a single mother. This writer will also explore the Cognitive Development Approach theories...
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...REFLECTION ON CHILD DEVELOPMENT THEORIES COURSE SUBJECT: FACILITATING LEARNING 1 INSTRUCTOR: MR. ANTHONY VISTA SUBMITTED BY: JOANNE B. ATIS After the discussion on the different theories of child development, I realized how these theories influence us; our cognitive development, values, principles & morals, behavior, and the society as a whole. From the psychoanalytic theory of Sigmund Freud, I realized that individuals go through stages in childhood and adolescence that shape their adult personality. Our behavior is influenced by the unconscious mind and our early experiences as a child affect development in later life. Erik Erikson’s psychosocial theory can be a basis for analyzing personality and behavior, and also for understanding and facilitating personality development. It is also obviously relevant to modern life. Each social interaction has a potential impact or reinforcement on a person’s identity. As such, Erikson’s theory is useful for teaching, parenting, self-awareness, dealing with conflict, and generally for understanding self and others. From the four (4) stages of Jean Piaget’s cognitive theory, I learned the importance of two processes that are essential for development: assimilation which is learning to understand events or objects, based on existing structure; and accommodation which is expanding understanding based on the new information. Children provide different explanations of reality at different stages of cognitive development. I believe that learning...
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...milestones are notable events, markers, or turning points that affect the development of a certain individual. Some examples of these include graduating from school, reaching your dreams, getting married, getting a job, becoming a parent, retirement, and one’s own death. One of the important things that a person needs to develop is his personality. According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, personality is the set of qualities and behaviors that makes a person different from other people. From the definition, lots of questions arise. Some examples are “What makes them different from the other?”, “Why are they behaving like that?”, and “Who am I?” In order to answer those questions, Erik Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development will help to understand the complexity of human personality. Erikson’s ‘psychosocial’ term is derived from two words – ‘psychological’ means mind and ‘social’ means external relationships (Chapman, 2013). According to Ramkumar (2002), Erik Erikson did most of his works during the 1930s to the 1950s as a psychologist. He was fascinated in child analysis. He was the student of Sigmund Freud and he was inspired by his works. From the article of Chapman (2013), Erikson’s psychosocial theory was drawn and was extended from the ideas of Sigmund Freud and his daughter, Anna Freud and the concepts within psychosexual theory of human development. Freud concepts are not however fundamental to Erikson’s theory which stands up well in its own right. Freud focused on the...
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...Ernest Chiam was born in 1957, the year which Malaysia got its independence. By the time, Malaysia began to develop and became stable as World War II was ceased and he was able to grow up in a peaceful environment without sirens of the enemy’s invasion. He is the fifth born out of six, with two brothers and three sisters. The first page of his life started in a middle class suburban household located in Muar, Johor. As a baby, Ernest was very chubby as well as adorable. He was raised on by his mother’s milk and therefore, since small he has a very close relationship with her mother. As both of his parents were school teachers, Ernest was raised up in a family that emphasized discipline and education. In that sense, he was especially forbidden to speak vulgar words, tells lies and smoke. Apart from that, he was constantly instilled by his parents the importance of education. However, unlike his siblings who are excelling in their studies, Ernest showed only a little interest in what had taught in school and he never did any revision. Therefore, most of the time, he just barely passed the exams. The only thing that amazed him is the natural world. The large and empty compound of undeveloped land and Muar River were both his favorite spot for wandering around and discovering. Besides playing games such as kite, gasing, marbles and catapult, his greatest entertainment will be sitting on the back of the buffalo and swimming in the monsoon drain. His obsess towards animals and natures...
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...In this paper I will be looking at the movie The Blind Side and analyzing the character of Sean Jr., known in the movie also as S.J. I will be looking at S.J.’s development in Sigmund Freud’s latency period and Erik Erikson’s stage of Industry vs. Inferiority. I will also write about the traditional and alternate paradigms that relate to this character in the movie and the risk and protective factors that affect him. At the end of the paper I will discuss why looking at a person in all of these different aspects is important in the work of a generalist social worker. The Theorists In our class discussion and PowerPoint, we learned that Sigmund Freud believes that a child goes through five different stages before they reach the maturity of...
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...intuitions about development? Two Controversial Issues 1. Are children active or passive in their development? The Organismic (active) view suggests development is internally initiated and occurs in a sequence of qualitatively different stages. It views development as bi-directional. The Mechanistic (passive) view suggests development is a passive predictable response to stimuli. 2. Is development continuous or does it occur in stages? Continuity or Discontinuity. The organismic approach emphasizes qualitative changes (discontinuous), while the mechanistic approach emphasizes quantitative changes (continuous). What is a theory? Definitions: A theory is a systematic formulation of principles explaining behaviour. It is a coherent set of logically related concepts that seeks to organize, describe, explain and predict data (p.22). Five broad theoretical perspectives: (p. 24/25) 1. Psychoanalytic 2. Learning 3. Cognitive 4. Contextual 5. Evolutionary/Sociobiological 1. Psychoanalytic theory The psychoanalytic perspective views development as shaped by unconscious forces that motivate human behaviour. Freud’s psychosexual theory (p.23-25) Freud believed that people are born with biological drives that must be controlled to make it possible to live in society. He proposed three hypothetical parts of one’s personality – the id, the ego and the super ego. He proposed 5 maturationally based stages of psychosexual development. Oral (birth...
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...there were not a whole lot of things he could remember that were to have a negative impact on him today. Adam was had an athletic youth, parents always provided him with insight to life and the circumstances it may cause due to bad decision making. Adam had a lot of structure and in his eyes; he believed that his parents validated any emotion of feeling that arose. Adam also was instructed by his parents to overcome obstacles and get a positive result. Adam did however inform me that there was a fair amount of drinking and drug use in the household along with numerous private parties. Adam had a very active and eventful upbringing as well as very impactful development that would shape the rest of his life. The following will be represented as the first four stages of Erik Erickson’s work on psychosocial development. When speaking of the first four...
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... Stannis Song ( Song Wenbo ) 20130301199 SEIB 1304 ABSTRACT: This study examined the self-growth and personal development of the Canton Fair internship for students from SEIB school. And this study will give certain promising suggestions to students who are going for this internship and also suggestions to the Canton Fair Internship Project developers. Data were collected from 257 students in SEIB school by questionnaire via Wenjuanxing. Implications for research and practice are discussed. KEY WORDS: Opportunity cost, self-growth, personal development. 1. Introduction Canton Fair, which is also known as China Import and Export Fair or Chinese Export Commodity Fair, is now the greatest trade fair in China, considering its attendance number, exhibition area and its business volume. Canton Fair was first held in 1957, and organized by China Foreign Trade Centre in Gunagzhou, Guangdong. It was first initiated to search for new substitutes of foreign trade when China was sanctioned by many capitalist countries and most of China’s trade allies and diplomatic relations were socialist nations. During the past 59 years, 59 times of Canton Fairs were held and were widely regarded as a milestone to China’s development of its external economic relations. They represented not only the impressive achievement of trade volume, but also emerged the development from a planned to a market-oriented economy. As a student from GDUFS SEIB school, each of us are required to join the...
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...stronger, a little wiser, and a little happier. I do not truly know what the purpose of my life is, but looking back over the past five years I know that I am a little closer now, rather than back then, to finding out what it is. I find myself to be happier and more positive in my outlook on life. With the upcoming nuptials and impending changes that are coming, one of the biggest changes is that I will be a step-mother; I am excited and very forward-thinking. My fiancé and I have agreed to have more children, and I am trying to convince him to have children sooner rather than later because I know we are ready and I am anxious to build our family. Erik Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development really places where I am today and what I went through to get here. Within the past five years, I moved from the young adulthood stage of life to the mature adulthood. I had defined myself by the previous relationship I was in and when that ended I was lost. Over time, I rebuilt myself to be independent but open to intimacy. During this transition I became good friends with a woman who I later found out was using our friendship for her own end rewards. While it hurt that she threw away our friendship the way she did, she played an integral part in helping me to become intimate with others again. I met my fiancé and our relationship progressed and I started to...
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...Analyzing Erik Erikson Erik Erikson brought to the field of psychology a great insight development of person through ones lifespan with his well-known concepts, the Stages of psychosocial development, as well as his Identity crisis at each stage. For Erikson, his theories were influenced by his childhood and his obsession over his identity. It led to the development of his theories. Erikson was born June 15, 1902 in Frankfurt, Germany. He never saw his birth father or his mother's first husband. His young Jewish mother raised Erik by herself for a time before marrying a physician, Dr. Theodor Homberger. The fact that Homberger was not in fact his biological father was held from him for many years. When he finally did learn the truth, he was left with a feeling of confusion about who he really was. This early experience helped spark his interest in the formation of identity.(Erik Erikson) In his stages of Psychosocial development, at the stage of Identity vs. Role confusion, Erikson stressed that this stage is important for the adolescent as he is transitioning to adulthood. The individual wants to belong to a society and fit in. It is during this stage that the adolescent will re-examine his identity and try to find out exactly who he or she is. During this period, they explore possibilities and begin to form their own identity based upon the outcome of their explorations. Failure to establish a sense of identity within society ("I don’t know what I want to be when I grow...
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...this disorder can be easily confused with “normal” actions that a child or adolescent may part take in daily. A child or adolescent may develop anxiety from pressure to do well in school, or meet parental and societal expectations; the disorder is developed around the desire for perfectionism. According to Child Mind Institute (2017), some of the common symptoms to look for in children and adolescents are restlessness, fatigue, irritability, or trouble concentrating or sleeping. The prevalence of generalized anxiety disorder in children and adolescents ranges from 2.9 to 4.6%. In the United States, the twelve month prevalence is 0.9%, while in other countries, it ranges from 0.4 to 3.6% (Nutter, Jr, MD, 2014). Cultural Variables While analyzing the symptom picture for generalized anxiety disorder in varying countries around the world, it is difficult to assess the similarities and differences from this disorder in the United States. This is due to language differences, instrument differences, and political, geographic, and sociodemographic context. According to Hofmann (2014), Some studies show that in countries such as Cambodia, people typically show anxiety-related symptoms that are based on fears of disturbed “inner wind” and blood flow; appropriately called “wind attacks”. These “wind attacks” can be caused by worry, anxiety, fear, poor sleep, ect. Although it may be difficult to analyze countries other than the United States, we are able to accurately analyze different cultural...
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...Describe the application of behaviorist perspectives in health and social care. (P1) Operant conditioning is a type of behavior modification which can be used to either decrease or increase the likelihoods of a certain aspect of a behavior will occur. The process relies on the idea that organisms (a person) respond to stimuli, and that if they can be taught to associate a specific stimulus with a particular behavior, they will be more likely to engage in or avoid the behavior, depending on the type of stimulus involved. This approach first came to notice B.F Skinner (s famous psychologist) were of his work was carried out in the 20th centaury. His work was mainly with the use of rats and pigeons to us e them to discover new ways of leering style and behaviors. Skinner was create1a very famous box which is still used today some science experiment call the Skinner box. This bow was designed with a lever which when pressed by a rate inside it would produce a food pellet to the rat when pressed accidentally. After a while the rate will begin to realize that when it presses the lever a food pellet will be released so there for will repeated this action for to receive food. The pellet of food in this situation is a product of reinforcing as the rat will like more of the food an can get it when he wants by pressing the lever which in turn increases the possibility of this behavior being repeated. There are two different types of stimuli which can be used in operant conditioning...
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