The First Stage Of Psychological Development

Developmental psychology is the study of physical, cognitive, and social changes throughout the entire lifespan of a human being. Arguably, it is the most important process that psychologists analyze to understand brain development and the issues that every person faces when progressing through the four main stages of life, parental-newborn, infancy & childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. There are specific behaviors that correlate with each stage of life and Jean Piaget, a famous developmental psychologist broke down these behaviors into four main stages, sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational. By understanding the four main stages of life with the necessary behaviors that relate, parents, teachers, or anyone responsible for guiding the development of people in all life stages, will be able to help benefit a growth.

He expresses an insecure attachment with his parents. This attachment happens when children have parents that they most likely do not feel safe or protected around. It is frequently linked with families of abuse. The difficulties that Bender faces can greatly affect his developmental styles. Bender represents partial development in most areas. In terms of intellectual development, the illogical behavior demonstrated at times to authority figures represent an incomplete growth. According to Kohlberg’s stages of moral development, Bender represents the second stage. He threatened to kill Andrew during a dispute showing that he does not view human life as important. Stage two is self-interest driven. It expresses the "what's in it for me" position, in which right behavior is defined by whatever the individual believes to be in their best interest but understood in a narrow way which does not consider one's reputation or relationships to groups of people. Stage two reasoning shows a limited interest in the needs of others, but only to a point where it might further the individual's own interests.

Jean Piaget’s 4 stages of Cognitive Development and Erik Erikson’s 8 stages of Psychosocial Development

It is important to remember when looking at child and young person development that development is a learning and holistic process. Each child is unique, they will develop at their own rate and in their own way.

Rachel Getting Married is a movie about a drug addict who 's coming home from rehab to attend her sister’s wedding. The main character’s name is Kim. In the movie, she is shown to have many issues going on, ranging from an incomplete stage of Erikson 's to symptoms of depression. Throughout the movie, she goes through many emotional turmoils and drama, which changes her behavior.

Evidence based approach at my work setting has shown that children who have attended nursery’s during their early years have developed more social skills as well as behavioural skills and cognitive skills as these have been developed through their early years at

Title - Discuss examples of emotional and cognitive development in children and the role of nurture and nature.

Erik Erikson created a theory, in which he created eight stages of development based on Freud’s theory of development. The eight stages are trust vs. mistrust, autonomy vs. shame and doubt, initiative vs. guilt, industry vs. inferiority, ego identity vs. role confusion, intimacy vs. isolation, generativity vs. stagnation, and ego integrity vs. despair. As someone develops in age, going through these stages, it increases in complexity. Erikson believed that each stage becomes a crisis that needs to be solved through self-discovery.

Erik Erikson, in seeking to understand and describe human development, developed a theory in the early 1900s. His theory progressed to assume that humans must deal with or cope with the conflicts of a certain stage of life before they can move on to a higher level of development (Ashford et al, 2013). He organized eight different stages of psychosocial development from infancy to old age. Each of the eight stages represents an internal conflict that will greatly define who and individual becomes and the choices they will make later in life based on their experiences within each stage.

1 = Ability to kick a ball and have more legible handwriting. Ability to count and do simple sums. Can

2. If the individual is an infant, test for object permanence (see pp. 101-102 in your textbook). Describe both the test and the results. If the individual is a child, test his or her conservation skills using one of the tasks described on pp. 148-151 in your textbook. Describe both the test(s) and the results. What does performance on the object permanence or conservation task tell you about the individual’s stage of cognitive development in Piaget’s theory?

Society plays an important role in the development and formation of individual’s identity, the social idea of the perfect man or woman tends to create different traumas in people who are trying to be accepted or recognized in their environment. Seeking perfection or social acceptance often tend people fall into depression, loneliness, low self-esteem, insecurity, frustration, isolation, and many other problems that will not allow individuals to express themselves freely and create their true identity. When we think about identity we referred to the individual unique characteristic that a person have in order to be recognized as human being. Identity is also the awareness that a person has with respect to itself and makes one different from

When a child turns the age between three and five, children start to want to explore a little more, these are the years when the child developing into a child. Once the child begins to shows different behaviors, parents may see this as aggressive".

The critical period in childhood development is when the newborn needs to spend time with the mother. As the mother bonds with the child it creates a baseline of interaction where the child can learn how to trust the parent. Many newborns need to be close to the mother after birth because if not they are liable to fall into illness. Thus, in chapter one, Erikson’s idea of 8 stages of the human life span, the first one is trust vs. mistrust (Santrock 17). As the child receives the attention required it will learn how to trust adults, however, when going thru mistrust it is not receiving the care it needs and later on in life develops trust issues. Also it causes further more complications later on thru the child’s life-span

Developmental Psychology has widened my perspective and knowledge of the nature of development from humans’ infancy to adolescence and emerging adulthood. Although I have learned about biological, cognitive, and socioemotional processes and periods of development, I am especially interested in socioemotional development in infancy because it is the foundation for a child’s future development. That is to say, if children have a healthy socioemotional development from infancy, they will have a healthy life later on. By understanding the developmental process in infancy, I will be fully prepared when I have children or when my family’s members do.