The development of our minds is a complex and complicated process. This long drawn out process starts when we are still in the womb. It is a very interesting process, how are brains develop; how we learn things so quickly, how we adapt to situations around us. There are many different people who have different ideas on how our minds develop. Erick Erickson, John Piaget, and John Watson. For the most part their theories are completely different. The most logical theory is Erick Erickson’s he has the most evidence to back his theory up as well.
Erick Erickson, who believes that the mind develops through eight stages which occur through our entire lives (McLeod 2013). Erickson believes that the first stage is Trust vs. Mistrust. During this early …show more content…
“Piaget suggests that when a person learns new information that it 's adding a new so called ‘index card’ into your brain” (Wadsworth 2004). The stages of Piaget’s theory are similar in a lot of ways to Erikson 's theory put on a smaller scale. “In his cognitive theory when a child develops the brain is constructing a mental model of the world” (Wadsworth 2004). What would happen if we didn 't have a mental model of the world around us? We wouldn 't be able to make use of past experiences, or plan out future actions like going to college (Keating 1979). When Piaget was figuring out if his theory could actually be correct he would make detailed observations of children and interviews with older children who were able to understand the questions that they were asked. There was a lot of support for this theory. Piaget influenced a lot of people on how they view children. The arguments for his theory were by other theorists for the most part asking if his stages were even real (Wadsworth 2004). Also people called his method more open to biased interpretation than other methods (Wadsworth
Erick Erickson, who believes that the mind develops through eight stages which occur through our entire lives (McLeod 2013). Erickson believes that the first stage is Trust vs. Mistrust. During this early …show more content…
“Piaget suggests that when a person learns new information that it 's adding a new so called ‘index card’ into your brain” (Wadsworth 2004). The stages of Piaget’s theory are similar in a lot of ways to Erikson 's theory put on a smaller scale. “In his cognitive theory when a child develops the brain is constructing a mental model of the world” (Wadsworth 2004). What would happen if we didn 't have a mental model of the world around us? We wouldn 't be able to make use of past experiences, or plan out future actions like going to college (Keating 1979). When Piaget was figuring out if his theory could actually be correct he would make detailed observations of children and interviews with older children who were able to understand the questions that they were asked. There was a lot of support for this theory. Piaget influenced a lot of people on how they view children. The arguments for his theory were by other theorists for the most part asking if his stages were even real (Wadsworth 2004). Also people called his method more open to biased interpretation than other methods (Wadsworth