High School Psychology Research Paper

Everyone has certain people they feel are the ones who are responsible for major points of development in their lives and for me those people are mother, my high school psychology teacher and my bestfriend of roughly eleven years. My mother had raised my brother and I by herself after she divorced my father when I was around six years old where she became the central figure into how I became the man I am today. She would always console me in my times of need, no matter what the situation was she would lend me her support. My high school psychology teacher was one of the few teaching figures that had ever taken an interest in me as a student and pushed me to find out what it was I wanted to do with my future. After speaking to each other on …show more content…
As discussed in the textbook, some people may naturally be more sociable and outgoing while others are not and that may be linked to their heredity but, these characteristics could also be linked to experiences in early childhood . For example, in my own life, my brother was naturally more outgoing than I was when we were growing up where I had difficulties in speaking my mind but, my brother had no trouble making friends so although our environment and genes are very similar we have different characteristics. However, once I grew up, I found it easier to speak and connect with others after making good friends in my childhood and now have no troubles in making friends or in speaking in public areas where I once struggled …show more content…
This theory breaks up development into five sections or ecosystems of control and effects that people have in their development and those that occur to the person in question. I like this theory as it takes into account the various influences that occurs in one’s life and although it is broken down into different systems they are still fluid where people can be good or bad, develop through nature and nurture and so on which I feel aligns well with my personal thoughts.
The theory I did not like would be Erikson’s Psychosocial Theory. His theory states that humans develop through varying life conflicts, broken up into stages by age, and depending on how the conflict is resolved the person develops particular traits. I dislike this theory as I don’t believe that people develop in such rigid stages through aging and although Erikson does state that these conflicts can be reconciled later in life it still dictates that life is discontinuous and universal which I feel cannot accurately grasp the complexity of each person’s experience in their development and through their cultural