Comparing Freud, Piaget And Erikson's Developmental Stages

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Thinking about Freud, Piaget and Erikson’s developmental stages, I believe all 3 stages,

which is the genital, formal operational and identity versus role confusion most accurately

represents my current stage in life because each of those stages serve a different role in our lives

and they come to play everyday for the teenage age group. The genital is when we direct our

sexual urge towards members of the opposite sex. Everyday the average teen thinks about sex at

one point during the day and this is one of the major things that teens care about nowadays

because they wanna experiment and test things out themselves. We focus a lot of our time on the

opposite gender and get carried away with other things happening around us at times.

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