Every new borne babies go through a life journey and that journey is from newborn to toddler, from toddler to teenager, and from teenager to mature adult. To put that in four words “from womb to tomb.” At each stage of life’s journey Myers, 2014, explains there are three vital milestone and those are cognitive, physical, and social milestones (Myers, 2014, p117). Although life is a journey, for this assignment we will be going through a journey in comparing and contrasting Erikson psychosocial stage model of development with Freud’s psychosexual stages. The differences and similarities between the two models will be explained. According to Myers, 2014, developmental psychology is defined as “the branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive,
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Freud explains his stages: the first year of life is the oral stage which meant that the child’s main source of pleasure is through the mouth this includes sucking, eating, and tasting. The big issue with this stage was that an oral fixation can result. Age one to three is the anal stage, which means that children at this age gain a sense of ability by controlling bowel movement (Cherry, 20015). However, children who masters this stage are more likely to be more productive whereas children who have difficult with this stage may develop a sense of anal fixation. The phallic stage involves ages from three to six. At this stage Freud explains that, children will begin to identify with their same sex parent. Which means that boys experience the Oedipus complex and the girls experience the Electra complex (Cherry, 20015). Latency stage occurs at the age of 6 to puberty. During the latency stage, children are usually focused on other activities like friends and school mainly the child focuses on self-confidence and social skills Freud thought that this stage was very vital for the child. The last stage in Freud’s theory was the genital stage, this is when the child understands sexual awareness and develops their identity (Osinki,
Freud explains his stages: the first year of life is the oral stage which meant that the child’s main source of pleasure is through the mouth this includes sucking, eating, and tasting. The big issue with this stage was that an oral fixation can result. Age one to three is the anal stage, which means that children at this age gain a sense of ability by controlling bowel movement (Cherry, 20015). However, children who masters this stage are more likely to be more productive whereas children who have difficult with this stage may develop a sense of anal fixation. The phallic stage involves ages from three to six. At this stage Freud explains that, children will begin to identify with their same sex parent. Which means that boys experience the Oedipus complex and the girls experience the Electra complex (Cherry, 20015). Latency stage occurs at the age of 6 to puberty. During the latency stage, children are usually focused on other activities like friends and school mainly the child focuses on self-confidence and social skills Freud thought that this stage was very vital for the child. The last stage in Freud’s theory was the genital stage, this is when the child understands sexual awareness and develops their identity (Osinki,