During every portion of life there are a number of stages that one passes through to progress and grow into the person that they are at present. While there is still room to further one’s self in adulthood, it’s usually from birth to adolescence that offers the largest span of change. Growth, in both the physical and mental sense, occurs at a rapid rate throughout these years that can alter a person significantly, however outside influences such as environment or opportunities play their part in molding youths. One’s emotions, social skills, beliefs, relationships, intelligence, and many other aspects of life are under near constant construction while in the process of developing that leaves them susceptible to change. Contained within this
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This ideal is focused on a psychosocial perspective which includes eight differing stages: basic trust versus mistrust, autonomy versus shame and doubt, initiative versus guilt, industry versus inferiority, identity versus identity confusion, intimacy versus isolation, generativity versus stagnation, and integrity versus despair; all of which steadily progress as a child ages and even far into later adulthood (Kail, 2015). Each stage has a certain window, in regards to age, that it should appear and the crisis associated with it should be dealt with. During the first stage, which occurs anywhere from birth to the first year of existence, I began learning with the assistance of those that raised me how my surroundings were considered a safe space providing an environment qualified to further proper expansion of development. Currently I happen to be in the stage of intimacy versus isolation, where the focus is centered on forging a loving relationship with another person something that is lacking in my life at present. Each previous conflict has been addressed up to this point and even if I don’t ever engage in a relationship like the one described, a possibility to consider, it has …show more content…
An influential scientist, Jean Piaget, made his mark in this field by creating the ideal that, “…children are naturally curious…children at all ages are like scientists…” (Kail, 2015) which are capable of encountering a number of experiences to craft working hypotheses about the surrounding world from. To begin with Piaget had three basic principles associated with this theory which were assimilation, new occurrences blending with existing ideals, accommodation, changing one’s thoughts to support newfound evidence, and equilibration which is restoring the balance between a child engaging in assimilation and accommodation by experiencing new ones rather than changing their beliefs (Kail, 2015). As a child I adored a single yellow flower known to be a buttercup, likely because they grew so frequently in our yard, and after the first time my mother showed it to me I began associating whatever yellow flower caught my eye by the same name (assimilating). Shortly after that trend started my mother corrected me in an effort to make me understand (accommodate) that yellow daisies and buttercups were similar in color but overall different
This ideal is focused on a psychosocial perspective which includes eight differing stages: basic trust versus mistrust, autonomy versus shame and doubt, initiative versus guilt, industry versus inferiority, identity versus identity confusion, intimacy versus isolation, generativity versus stagnation, and integrity versus despair; all of which steadily progress as a child ages and even far into later adulthood (Kail, 2015). Each stage has a certain window, in regards to age, that it should appear and the crisis associated with it should be dealt with. During the first stage, which occurs anywhere from birth to the first year of existence, I began learning with the assistance of those that raised me how my surroundings were considered a safe space providing an environment qualified to further proper expansion of development. Currently I happen to be in the stage of intimacy versus isolation, where the focus is centered on forging a loving relationship with another person something that is lacking in my life at present. Each previous conflict has been addressed up to this point and even if I don’t ever engage in a relationship like the one described, a possibility to consider, it has …show more content…
An influential scientist, Jean Piaget, made his mark in this field by creating the ideal that, “…children are naturally curious…children at all ages are like scientists…” (Kail, 2015) which are capable of encountering a number of experiences to craft working hypotheses about the surrounding world from. To begin with Piaget had three basic principles associated with this theory which were assimilation, new occurrences blending with existing ideals, accommodation, changing one’s thoughts to support newfound evidence, and equilibration which is restoring the balance between a child engaging in assimilation and accommodation by experiencing new ones rather than changing their beliefs (Kail, 2015). As a child I adored a single yellow flower known to be a buttercup, likely because they grew so frequently in our yard, and after the first time my mother showed it to me I began associating whatever yellow flower caught my eye by the same name (assimilating). Shortly after that trend started my mother corrected me in an effort to make me understand (accommodate) that yellow daisies and buttercups were similar in color but overall different