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    Erik Erikson was a behavioural psychologist who believed that behaviour and personality of a person is determined by how well they dealt with conflicts throughout the previous stages of their life. According to him there are 8 stages of human development that are guided by age groups. The 8 of stages are: • Trust vs mistrust (infancy) – infants are vulnerable beings and they depend on their primary care givers to take care of them. The virtue will be hope and the outcomes would be trust or mistrust

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    Development psychology has been through several changes over the 20th century. Many of the theorists from the beginning of the century introduced the field of psychology. Two of the most well-known theorist that determined early childhood education and child psychology are Erik Erikson and Jean Piaget. In this paper I will discuss the combination and their contribution of the two theorists in their study of different developmental stage‚ their differences‚ and similarities in their theories.

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    Aishah Afzal – Assignment 1 Erikson Erikson’s 8 Stages of Development Stage 1 Trust vs Mistrust: strength/virtue gained hope This stage occurs during infancy‚ birth to age 1‚ and it is during this stage that the infant gains the ability to either trust an adult or mistrust an adult. According to Erikson’s theory‚ if an infant is well fed and cared for the infant will develop a trust with the caregiver and will demonstrate emotions of happiness and faith in humanity. However‚ if an infant is not properly

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    Piaget ’s Theory of Cognitive Development Jean Piaget was born on August9‚ 1896‚ in the French speaking part of Switzerland. At an early age he developed an interest in biology‚ and by the time he had graduated from high school he had already published a number of papers. After marrying in 1923‚ he had three children‚ whom he studied from infancy. Piaget is best known for organizing cognitive development into a series of stages- the levels of development corresponding too infancy‚ childhood

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    A pre-mature baby has delayed physical development as their bodies are smaller and often not as developed as a full term baby. Due to having to stay in special care baby units their emotional development can be affected as they can’t build bonds with parents and family members that healthy babies make due to staying in incubators and not being able to be cuddled or fed normally. A disabled child (depending on disability) has their physical development affected by being in a wheelchair‚ being unable

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    A. Please analyze comparatively the typical patterns of narrative development in   Community and Parks and Recreation‚ using specific episodes of your choice from  both shows to illustrate your point.     In both of these shows narrative development is used to construct the plot or develop  and event or a relationship between characters. In both Parks and Recreation and Community  the main characters relationship to each other and their responses to things around them help  further the plot of the story

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    “The socioeconomic status in which a child is born can have profound lifelong effects” (UNICEF‚ 2016‚ p. 9). Development beginning in early life establishes the foundation for future health and development‚ which is why it is necessary that children be given the best possible start. Familial income is a key determinant of healthy childhood development (Gupta‚ Wit‚ & McKeown‚ 2007). Families with low incomes are likely to lack the resources necessary for children’s health‚ such as: nutritious food;

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    among them was Jean Piaget‚ a Swiss psychologist and development biologist most notable for his theory of cognitive development of children‚ in which he became the first psychologist to refute the long-standing notion that children were inferior to adults in terms of thinking. Piaget argued that children tend to think in a very remarkable way in comparison to adults and correlating to their age. What interested him greatly was not how children were able to learn how to read or count‚ but rather‚

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    Erikson expanded on Freud’s stages because he wanted to include old age‚ since Freud did not explain his psychosexual theory passed adolescence (Fleming‚ 2004‚ p. 9-3). It is significant that Erikson continued his stages of human development through old age; it shows us that development continues past adolescence. In Erikson’s theory he creates eight stages of development in an individuals "lifespan‚" each stage has a crisis that must be addressed before the start of the next stage‚ (Sneed‚ Whitbourne‚

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    theories and psychologists‚ children develop morally‚ cognitively‚ emotionally‚ and socially slowly over time‚ and they often make decisions that show they are unable to grasp whether a choice is right or wrong. It is impossible to exactly measure how children develop‚ asking questions such as “How much developmental change occurs gradually over time‚ and how much occurs in a series of clearly defined steps‚ or stages?(pp 52)” More questions presented are “How much of development is the result of inheritance

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