Erikson 's Theory Of Development

Piaget, Vygotsky, and Erikson are very well known men for their different theories of development. Although each of them believe different things about how a child develops, I believe that a child can go through all of these theories and benefit from them. I also understand that not everyone is the same, and what might be true for someone could be different for someone else. In my own personal experience, I believe I went through and I’m going through all these different stages in theories throughout my life. I also work at a daycare and we use aspects from each of these theories when going about teaching children. The three different theories include: Piaget’s theory of cognitive development, Vygotsky;s sociocultural theory of

No matter who you are I believe that everyone will go through stages in their life that will get them to where they are on today. I am a person who has a very interesting story; this is the first time it will be told in full. We were asked to use Erik Erikson’s theory of development as a guideline to telling the story of our lives. At first I was very nervous; however, I soon realized that this would be a fun task. Erik Erikson has eight stages of Development (Zastrow and Kirst-Ashman). I will be walking you though my life using each one of his stages drawing out the map of my life. Within my life I have had some very interesting encounters. I have been through foster care, abuse, rape, molestation, starvation, adoption, depression, and

According to Erikson stages of human development, late adulthood stage is between the ages 65 to death (Erikson, 1982). This stage is ego integrity versus despair involves individual to look back over one’s life and feel a sense of contentment and satisfaction (Erikson, 1982). Success at this stage leads to feeling of wisdom and failure to achieve results in bitterness, regret, and despair. This negative resolution manifests itself as a fear of death, a sense that life is too- short, and depression (Erikson, 1982).

Erik Erikson’s lifespan development theory has proven to be popular and applicable to many people. However, Erikson’s theory was a bit bias and generalized groups of people whose cultures, genders and environments did not apply to his theory. This paper will focus on Erikson’s last four stages of development, and discuss how each stage may be impacted by these various factors.

As human beings age, according to Erik Erikson, they go through developmental stages that help to create and transform their personalities. If needs are met and the ego is gratified, then the individual is able to move on to the next challenge. Onward they march in life and in stage until they find the end level: integrity versus despair. This has been categorized as adults 65 years and older by Erikson. Here, people are to reminisce and judge their lives in terms of merit or disappointment. Erikson himself had a lot to comb through in his later years.

Erikson’s first stage of development is Trust vs Mistrust, and the second stage of development is Autonomy vs Shame and Doubt (Rogers, 2013, p. 87). In stage one, a child depends on his/her caregiver to provide food, shelter, and love, and if these things are not met, mistrust can develop (Rogers, 2013, p. 87). In the second stage, the child is learning to do things independently, and gaining self-confidence (Rogers, 2013, p. 87). I would use this theory as psychoeducation to the mother by explaining these two stages, and to ask questions of the mom to see how these two stages of development have been experienced by the child. First, I would want to examine the Stage One, and examine the relationship the mother and the child had during

In Erik Erikson’s theory he explains that in every stage, a positive or a negative attitude is developed within an individual. During our developing stages we are either successful or we fail. Each stage will come to us whether or not we’re ready for them or not. You can think of the stages as learning stages where crisis occur .Only if we have learned from the previous crisis we are successful. You cannot avoid 1 stage and move to a next stage because of the developing process. The outcome of our lives depends on the way we chose to progress throughout each stage in life. Erikson had his own way in describing each stage in life that we all must go through.

I interviewed and adolescent, freshly turned, eighteen year old female. According to Piaget she should already have developed all four cognitive stages; and according to Erikson she should be right between the identity vs. role confusion, and intimacy vs. isolation stages of development. Through her answers I can see areas where she does, and does not comply with where she stands on the developmental timeline according to Piaget and Erikson.

When I was doing this assignment I taught about four amazing people who are, Piagets, Vygotsky, Skinner and Erikson. All four people have a different theory on how children should develop. I am also going to talk about the Jackson family what steps they should take.

O stands for openness to experience: how 'open' one is to exploring the world and gaining new experiences and making new memories

When figuring out how to frame my childhood through a theoretical lens I realized that I had a lot of internal frustrations in response to my social environment. Erikson’s stages of development (McLeod, 2008) focuses on internal conflict of the child within a psychosocial framework. Erikson’s Psychosocial Stages of Development were derived from Freud’s psychosexual stages yet instead of focusing sexual desires Erikson’s theory sees the child’s conflict between self and environment. Within each stage there is a crisis involving psychological needs and society. It is important that the crisis is solved in order to develop certain traits and to successfully move on to the next stage of development.

I chose to concentrate on Erikson's sixth stage of developmental theory (Intimacy vs. isolation) as it applies to my personal life experience from my young adulthood to present time. I am a mother kids it will help me to understand each stage and being able to support them in difficult life trying.

There have been many psychologists throughout generations that have studied and created theories about how we develop. Human development is something interesting on its own because during development many factors come into play. We have different factors such as biological, psychological, sociocultural, and lastly life-cycle forces that can affect how we develop into the individuals we are presently and even futuristically. But just because we have these forces does not mean that each force is a main factor to the development theories that have been discovered, and analyzed and brought into question.

In this developmental stage adults face generativity versus stagnation. In the last developmental stage, late adulthood, people encounter an integrity versus despair crisis (Coon & Mitterer, 2015, p. 123-126). In addition, each stage has a virtue that is accomplished after the crisis has been resolved. This was just an overview to Erikson’s developmental theory, however, it greatly assists the analyzation of Susan’s life.

From leaning objective 8.9, explains the development of the personality along with social interpersonal skills, and the concept of the self from infancy to adulthood, I wanted to compare the first five stages of Erikson’s theory on development to Ken Wilber’s first five stages of his nine stages, that he calls spaces. The first five stages of Erikson 's theory, which he notes as crisis, are trust versus mistrust, autonomy versus shame and doubt, initiative versus guilt, industry versus inferiority, and identity versus role confusion. The first four “personal spaces,” of Wilber 's theory are the archaic, the magical, or egocentric, the mythical, and the rational. Erikson 's theory states that an emotional crisis must be successfully met for normal development. Wilber 's theory is similar in that he uses an example of a multiple story building. If one stage isn 't completely understood, but not mastered, then that floor will end up leaning, and a building like that cannot be sustained for long before its structural integrity is compromised.