Four stages of competence

State, my college experience was enhanced and I began to develop competence. Author Chickering developed a theory of Identity Development in 1969 that identified the developmental and environmental issues college students face on a daily basis that influenced development (Evans et al., 2010, p.65). Chickering theory has seven vectors that students can deal with simultaneously. The first vector in Chickering’s theory is developing competence. I took courses that forced me to use my mind, forced…

decisions all the time. Ethical decision-making is a process of stages an individual goes through from the moment a moral issue arises until he or she engages in a given behavior. The process followed before engaging in ethical or unethical behavior is described by Rest’s Four-Component Model. Rest’s model, as cited in Morales-Sánchez and Cabello-Medina (2013), states an individual facing a moral problem goes through four different stages: moral sensitivity, moral judgment, moral motivation…

communication competence among healthcare professionals: Communication constitutes relationship; relationships are vital to the quality and often the quantity of life; therefore, communication is vital to the quality and quantity of life. (Spitzberg, 2013) Furthering this axiom, he states the greater the competence of communication, the greater the quality of relationships; the greater the quality of relationships, the greater the quality of life; therefore, the greater the competence of…

role confusion (age 12 to 18). Moreover, according to Piaget 's four stages of cognitive or intellectual development A.L is currently at the stage of formal operations, and his cognitive development continues through adolescence to adulthood. A.L emotional development and intellectual development suggest, he is equipped to dealing with social pressures and expectations, in line with Erikson 's psychosocial stages/model (i.e., identity vs. role confusion). A.L high school is noted to competitive…

motivation. I used all four mental skills…

Erik Erikson is a prominent psychologist who emerged from studying under and expanding the teachings of Freud to extend post childhood and include the adulthood stages of life. Erikson’s theory is different because he studied how all the stages of life are connected. Teachings and behaviors learned in childhood, follow an individual into adulthood. This paper will discuss how Erikson’s theory can help to explain the behavior of a third grader who is bullying and provide some approaches to…

occurs throughout the lifespan. While Erik discusses his development theory in eight stages, this essay will be addressing the first five stages. Considering family and society the resolution of positive and negative crisis depends on interactions which makes these stages very important to infancy, childhood, and adulthood development. Infants are born helpless because they depend on others for their needs. Stage 1, Trust vs. Mistrust teaches a child from birth to 2 years of age if the world…

discover how children think about the world in different stages of development and how the changes in their thinking occur. Piaget believed that children created an understanding of the world by schemes. Schemes are actions or mental…

the child was somewhat angry and not being easily soothed by the teacher. I noticed a few things that tied to Piaget’s stages of development. In the final classroom three girls were playing in the fake kitchen and pretending to cook the food and pretended that they were serving the food. This tells me that they are know in the preoperational stage because in the preoperational stage children begin to pretend in their play. Later one of the teachers showed one of the students two cupcakes and…

Emotional Development Birth to Three Erickson refers to this stage as the “trust versus mistrust” in this stage it is essential for the infant to find consistency, predictability, reliability in their parents (Crain, 2011). Children that have developed this trust are able to allow their parents to leave with being upset for a long period of time, however infants are sometimes upset but when the parent is gone the caregiver is able to sooth the child quickly. This time frame is also when some…