The Eight Stages Of Psychosocial Development

A moving quote by Einstein states, “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid,” (A Quote by Albert Einstein). This level of Erikson’s theory is molded around this concept. Students have the ability to succeed, but depending on their encounters in school, their potential may never be revealed.

The second stage of Erikson theory is Autonomy vs Shame/Doubt, this occurs between the 18 months and 3 years of age. During this stage the child is being to their independence by discovering their own skills and abilities. Success in this stage, children will become more independent and develop more self-confidents in their abilities. However, failure may lead the child to have feeling of being inadequate. During this stage, parents can be supportive and patience

People are motivated by behaviors and actions. I believe this to be very true; when I am around smart productive people then I feel smarter and more productive. On the other hand, when I hang around lazy people then I want to be lazy and not do anything and this serves as a turning point for slow personal growth. Movement through Erikson’s stages directly affects people’s success in the next stage. In a nutshell, a person must deal with a conflict until it is resolved with the major events and then they can move on to the next stage in the lifespan successfully.

The eight stages of Erikson’s theory are as follows: Stage 1 is from birth to 18 months with a conflict resolution of trust vs mistrust. Babies gain a sense of confidence when properly cared for or become insecure when neglected or abused. Stage 2 is from 18 months to 3 years with a conflict resolution of autonomy vs shame and doubt. Children gain a sense of independence when allowed to choose for themselves within reasonable limits or doubt themselves and the choices they make when parents are over-controlling and shame them for making a wrong choice. Stage 3 is from 3 to 6 years with a conflict resolution of initiative vs guilt. Here a child learns how to properly socialize and cooperate with others through playing; however, when guilt

On the fourth week of class we focus on identity development and personality. We spoke about how there are four primary models of personality such as timing of events, trait, cognitive stage, and normative crisis models. We talked about the Erikson’s stages psychosocial who later on develop the eight stages of theory. We also discussed Freud’s psychosexual stages and compare them to Erikson’s psychosocial stages. We analyze identity statuses such as mature, moratorium, foreclosure, and identity diffusion and its research findings. We also went over the gender identity and development and two longitudinal studies such as Mills study and the grant study of Harvard University men and the support of androgyny.

Implementing developmental concepts and theories in a classroom can increase student achievement. Success within a classroom starts with the success of a teacher. According to Barbara Blake and Tambra Pope, “teacher must develop a better understanding of their students’ cognitive development, which will lead to the needs of the whole child being satisfied.” (Blake B. & Pope T., 2008). Educators must comprehend how an individual’s mind processes information from thinking to perceiving to remembering to learning. Grasping the comprehension of a student’s mental process and constructing suitable lessons, “using developmental instructional techniques, teachers have been able to increase the test scores of children in public schools.” (Blake B.

According to Erikson’s Theory of Industry versus Inferiority children it’s important for children to successfully resolve any psychological conflict to develop a sense of competence at skills and tasks (Berk, 2014).

Preschool age is basically identified as year three to six. In psychology this age group categorize as “early childhood”. This early childhood stage is more imperative in the child development and their learning procedure. That’s why the concept of preschool has come to play.

As to Erik Erickson theory, it consists of a sequence of issues that need to be resolved for healthy development to occur. One of his issues is trust versus mistrust. In a creative curriculum classroom, teachers must establish a reliable safe atmosphere that reinforces the trust children learn at home and helps children who mistrust because of difficult experiences. Another issue is autonomy versus shame and doubt, the creative curriculum, teacher take care to help children become autonomous by providing structure while allowing the children to regulate their own behavior. The issue of initiative versus guilt guided the creative curriculum to place a high priority on creating a Creative curriculum Environment within the classroom that encourages the children to experiment, explore, and pursue their own interest.

There are seven stages a human moves through during his or her life span. These stages include infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle adulthood and old age.

During this chapter, it discussed many different behavioral views of learning. The chapter began by talking about the different ways the students learn. With the beginning stages of learning such as remembering things and putting the memories together. When they are similar or when they contrast from each other. This is the beginning way for younger students to start putting things together, from what they learn in the classroom or at home. During this time a students will start to learn positive and negative behaviors. Teachers who teach at a younger age level tend to use reinforcements to give positive feedback on something that a student does well. In the book Educational Psychology it states, “Whether the consequences of any actions are

From birth and all the way until adulthood, all humans go through a long path of development. Physical growth occurs along this path, but along with it, the most important and fundamental component of every human being also happens, this is known as psychological development. In reality, there are different evolutionary stages of psychological development by which all individuals must go through and complete in order to become self-sufficient, each with its special characteristics.

Over the course of this semester, I have had the opportunity to learn about educational psychology. I have always enjoyed psychology and was especially interested in how it applied to teaching in the classroom. There were five specific concepts we discussed over the semester that especially interested me. I found that homogenous and heterogeneous grouping, extrinsic and intrinsic motivation, operant conditioning, cooperative learning, and divergent versus convergent thinking are five psychological concepts that every teacher should learn about in preparation for teaching.

From birth and all the way until adulthood, all humans go through a long path of development. Physical growth occurs along this path, but along with it, the most important and fundamental component of every human being also happens, this is known as psychological development. In reality, there are different evolutionary stages of psychological development by which all individuals must go through and complete in order to become self-sufficient, each with its special characteristics.

Erick Erickson, a German psychoanalyst created a theory called the Stages of Development, which consist of eight phases. As a person passes though each stage they will attempt to resolve crises that are important to the process of life. These eight stages include building a sense of trust in others, discovering a sense of self, as well as preparing the forthcoming generation for the future. Since everyone is unique in their own way, we will all experience Erickson’s 8-Stage Life Span Theory slightly different from each other.