What Are The Five Major Theories In My Life

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Theories provide the whys for development, which theories are organized ideas that explain development. There are five different theories, which I believe that all five have influenced development in my life. For example, in the psychodynamic theory it we are taught how to resolve conflicts they we face at different ages, which is how Erikson eight stages come into play. Starting from birth I learned who I was able to trust and as the years passed by I learned to be independent, learn new abilities, basic skill that helped me work with others, sense of self, commitment and viewing life that was worth living. The learning theory influenced my personal behavior by examining and experience which this had two different consequences which are rewarding or punishment. Reinforcement increased me to do things …show more content…
Competence environmental press is what really pushes me to further my career in nursing. For one it’s something that I really enjoy doing on a day to day basis and two because the demand for nurses are up and when I finish school, I’ll have a greater chance of getting hired out of school. Lifelong development perspective cannot not be understood within a single framework; it is understood over a period of time. From my childhood to adolescence to middle age not a single part of life can be understood without knowing the origins of an individual. Each person is effective differently by social, environmental and historical change, which in other words my generation grew up in a different era than the baby boomer. Baby boomer saw and went through social change that made them see things and do things differently. Such as they did not have all these fancy technologies to communicate with one another or keep them entertain, like we are able to do now. The perspective in life now has changed which an example is my

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