Child development stages

Sharon Knight is a 68 years old woman, born in Edmond, Oklahoma in a small maternity home. She is the middle child of five in her family. Sharon currently lives in Piedmont, Oklahoma in a home that is small enough for the two of them, but also big enough for their four grandchildren to roam about. Sharon has been married for fifty years to the same man, and they still show each other the same love that they did the day they met. She is a wife, mother of two, and grandmother of four, but she…

Erik Erikson’s theory of Psychosocial Development explores one’s life experiences through stages of development and social interactions to determine one’s identity. This paper will consist of my cultural, religious and life experiences that have shaped my place in the world based on the ideas of Erik Erikson and Kwame Appiah’s theories of development. Erikson describes his fifth stage as Identity Confusion in which takes place during adolescence. Throughout this paper I will focus on…

base their client 's behaviors on. The life cycle theory consists of stages for a human being from the time that they are born to late adulthood. The stages in the theory include basic trust versus mistrust, shame versus doubt, initiative versus guilt, industry versus inferiority, identity versus role confusion, intimacy versus isolation, generativity versus stagnation, and integrity versus despair (Hutchison, p. 60). Each stage represents people from when they are babies to late adulthood and…

Rachael, with her age and behavior falls into the third stage, learning initiative versus guilt. She makes a lot of decisions for herself such as, who she plays with and what activities they play. For example, she was telling me about all her friends at school and how she has “boyfriends” at school. She chooses who she interacts with at school. Also, on the first day I observed her the neighbor kids were over. She would only interact with the male friend and not girl. Who she decides to play…

that human development is driven by the need to become integrated into the social and cultural environment. Erikson branched his definition off of Freud’s psychosexual theory. In short, Freud’s theory focused on the driving force behind development being sexuality, but Erikson took a different approach. He was the first to pursue a life span theory of human development. There are eight stages of Erikson’s psychosocial theory, but since the participants are both adults, the main stages of focus…

Chapter six focuses on lifespans and the developmental process of life, the many stages, and the different theories that exist concerning lifespan development. Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines lifespan as the duration of existence of an individual. While Ellery Pullman, the author of chapter six in Introduction to Christian Education: Foundations for The Twenty-First Century, describes the word lifespan as the study of change in behavior over the whole life span from birth until death.…

Playgrounds can be found all over neighborhoods, towns, and schools and provide an excellent way for children in early and middle childhood to develop and work on physical growth in a safe way. Children go through a sensitive period which is a point in development when organisms are susceptible to stimuli in their environments (Feldman, 2017). Gross and fine motor skills are able to be developed further through play in an environment such as parks and are different for children in the early and…

Erik Erikson, the developer of the psychosocial theory approach to human development, believed that people follow a sequence of stages of development from birth to death. “These development stages include tasks that result from biological forces and age related social or cultural expectations (Ashford & LeCroy, 2010, p.99)”. Within his psychological theory, Erikson identified eight psychosocial stages of human development which are equipped with “appropriate physical, emotional, and cognitive…

working to fulfill their basic physical needs, but still feel the pull to pursue stability in their home, receive love and respect of others (POH). Erik Homberger Erikson: Psychosocial Stages Erik Erikson was born on June 15, 1902, in Frankfurt, Germany. He is known for his theory on psychosocial development of human beings. While his ideas were influenced by Freud, Freud was an id psychologist and Erikson was an ego psychologist (McLeod 2013). • id psychologist – “The id is the impulsive…

rather than developing in psychosexual stages like Freud suggested, people develop through psychosocial stages. Development is constantly occurring throughout life and early and later experiences are equally important. People have a desire to interact with others socially. In each stage there is a crisis that needs to be resolved, the more triumph the healthier the development will be for the individual (Santrock, 2016). In Erikson’s fifth stage of development, identity vs identity confusion,…