SCIENCE CITY OF MUNOZ
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE
DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY
(MATURATION VS. EXPERIENCE)
(CONTINUITY VS. DISCINTINUITY)
(STABILITY VS. CHANGE)
MATURATION VERSUS EXPERIENCE
DEVELOPMENT
MATURATION the emergence of personal and behavioral characteristics through growth process.
EXPERIENCE knowledge of or skill of something or some event gained through involvement in or exposure to that thing or event.
One of the developmental issues is between the maturation and experience.
Many of us are having conflict in thinking about what is the most efficient for development.
In my own opinion, first I want to explain why I think experienced was leading us for a good development and of course the other side, why I think being matured are not efficient for development.
Experience…
They said that experiences are the best teacher. As times goes by there are lots of problems in life that we encountered with by a certain person, through it we learned to make solutions in order to solve such. By that kind of experience when the same problems occur to another person you know the best solution for it. And you may learn to analyze step by step in order to do so. Through our experience, we may say that we matured. As we encountered new challenges in life and we overcome those challenges, we may say that we became stronger enough and able to solve much difficult problems because of what we experienced in the past.
Maturation…
As a matured person, we are open for a development in our all aspects. But for us to be matured, we also need some experiences. As we are in the stage or process on developing our maturity, we learn how to change for the better and we only notice what are the things we need to develop because we experienced it. As we grow older, we also realize that there is something on us that we need to develop for the best.
If you are fully developed in all