Developmental stage theories

Trying desperately to stay awake as the hot, humid air slowly overtook me, I took a quick moment and looked around the room. First, the man standing next to the podium - his loud Brooklyn accent cutting through the hot humid air of an early summer night in New England – had the attention of everyone in attendance. This event was originally scheduled to be held at a small coffee shop in downtown Portsmouth, N.H. However, due to the larger than expected turnout, organizers had been left scrambling…

I was standing in front of all my family. I was wearing my big puffy light pink dress, and I grabbed the microphone ready to talk. The day had finally come; I’ve been waiting/planning my Quinceañera (15th) birthday party since I wad ten years old. It was June 20th, 2015 at exactly 4:00pm, and I was at my reception with all of my court (four guys). After dancing all the choreographed dances, the moment to give my speech had finally arrived. It was around 6:00pm when my uncle had finally…

When I got to Lao Family building, my sister went to get us a chair so we can sit and put our stuff down. The room that they were practicing has no chairs but a small stage and a few small storage room for chairs and a table in the corner. If there wasn’t a stage, it would feel like a small empty gym. The stage has a huge picture of our Hmong president General Vang Pao hanging on the wall. There’s two huge door that leads you to a hallway with windows where you can see University street and…

A matinee performance on Saturday, May 20 (officially titled Here/Now No. 9) was perhaps the single most dispiriting afternoon I've ever spent at NYCB. The program presented six different works. By the end of the fourth week of the Here/Now festival the number of injuries was staggering -- every week had a multitude of casting changes. The dancers, usually so chipper on social media, had resorted to venting and more venting. Georgina Pazcoguin's wry line "To those who fell, to those who made it…

The first step, Initiation, is related to the first impression someone has about an individual based primarily on that individual’s physicality. During the second stage, Experimentation, individuals learn about one another’s likes and dislikes and seek to formulate a connection based on a common interest. Meanwhile, the Intensifying stage is when individuals begin to showcase their true selves and to divulge more personal…

Madonna is playing. Journey is playing. Katy Perry is playing. For once, no one is talking. Everyone is focused on their devices. It is Monday. You leave class, you come back the next day. Madonna is playing. It is still Monday. Your list of music Monday topics is stretching on to infinity. It has been Monday for so long. Journey is still playing. Theme essays, Miss. Hintze calls from the front of the room. She says you can do it on whatever theme you want, but you know what she wants. Six…

Presentation The first stage of group work is the forming stage, which is also known as excited stage (Tuckman and Jensen, 1977). According to Tuckman’s theory of group development the forming stage is for developing trust with group members, making contact, bonding and agreeing on common goals. A group is initially concerned about orienting themselves with knowing boundaries of the group (Smith, 2005). I did not know anyone in the group but at the same time I realized I would know them as we…

Bright lights and colors surround the area, and you can feel the energy in the air. The instruments being played, and the voices of young talented singers balance each other out. The performers have worked long and hard, their voices hit every note and their steps are perfectly aligned. Even though the five stars are only kids, they’re disciplined. Especially the lead singer, who is only eleven years old. The lead singer was Michael Jackson, and his band was Jackson 5. The group was brought…

According to Piaget’s four stages of cognitive development theory (Santrock, 2014), I would be in the formal operational stage. This stage can begin as early as 11 and continue throughout the lifespan developmental process. In this stage one begins to reason in more abstract, idealistic, and logical ways (Santrock 2014). I would say that I have been in this stage for many years now, and have made a lot of developmental progress throughout this cognitive stage. For example, over the years I have…

observed Maya, it was clear that her actions correlated well with certain theories of development we have learned in class. For example, the first one I noticed was when Maya and her younger brother, lucas, were playing dress-up. The theory that came to mind was Lawrence Kohlberg 's cognitive developmental theory of gender-role development. Specifically, the third stage of his theory related best to the situation. The stage is described as gender constancy, which is when the child finally…