Figures |Key Concepts of Personality Formation |Explanation of Disorder Personality |Validity |Comprehensiveness |Applicability |Cultural Utility | |Psychosocial Humanistic |Erik Erickson Carl Rogers Abraham Maslow |Erickson was interested in childhood development‚ and its effects on adult society. Erikson ’s theory refers to ’psychosocial crisis ’ which represents internal emotional conflict. With the emotional conflict there are 2 opposing emotional forces on each of the 8 stages
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Erikson and Sigmund Freud. I will be talking about each of these theorists and their famous theories of psychosocial and psychosexual‚ since they both are well known development theories. I will provide enough information about both and explain the differences of each‚ as well. First off‚ Freud had inspired Erickson who had theories that were in a number of ways different than Freud’s. Freud and Erickson have similarities and differences in the things that do or explore within their theories and the way
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Lifespan Development Defined As the lifespan has been evaluated by many Developmental Psychologists‚ many different definitions and perspective have evolved. An accumulation of theories suggests that lifespan development can be identified as “a study of the miraculous changes a person goes through from birth until death. Lifespan development covers all stages of development and progress from the birth of a person to their death (Herron‚ 2010). Theories of Lifespan Development Two important
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The movie On Golden Pond represents three stages of development: adolescence‚ middle-adulthood‚ and late-adulthood. In the movie‚ Billy‚ Chelsea and Norman‚ three of the main characters symbolize the three stages of development by specific behaviors related to biosocial‚ cognitive‚ and psychosocial developments. It was necessary for the three characters to break down during hard situations in their lives to start appreciating the different seasons of their lives‚ the transition from adolescence to
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Throughout life‚ we are all changing and evolving. However‚ in the development of psychology‚ the process of growth and maturing has been earlier associated only with childhood. Erik Erikson was one of the first theorists‚ who believed that development continues throughout life. Erikson developed his theory of psychosocial development taking into account the specific cultural context. According to him‚ each stage in life corresponds to certain expectations the society might have. Erikson
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Two important theorists who worked on childhood and moral development were Jean Piaget and Erikson. They both formed very important theories as to the thought development throughout the lifespan. Although‚ their theories were similar in a way‚ they were very much different. The validity of their theories in reference to today’s children is questionable but very much still applicable. Jean Piaget believed in a stage theory of development where people undergo distinctive revolutions in their thought
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The psychosocial theory of development was formulised by the German psychoanalyst Erik Erikson. His theory considers the impact of external factors‚ parents‚ and the society‚ on personality development from childhood to adulthood (Candida‚ 2010‚ p. 51). According to Erikson’s theory‚ every person must pass through a series of eight interconnected stages (split into general age ranges) over their entire life cycle. In this assignment‚ I will discuss these eight stages of development and how Erikson’s
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3. What was your mother/father like? Stage one of Erickson’s development is trust vs mistrust. Defined by their parents without this trust in early stages the infant may grow to mistrust many people. Darrell explained that growing up they were poor‚ but not like todays definition of being below the federal poverty line‚ literally dirt poor. His mother and father grew tobacco and made moonshine to get by in Kentucky. If going off of this information its clear to see that what they were doing was
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According to Erickson’s Psychosocial Stages of Development‚ Hank is in the Ego Integrity vs Despair stage of late adulthood. In this phase of life an‚ “Adult comes to terms with life’s successes‚ failures‚ and missed opportunities and realizes the dignity of own life” (Broderick & Blewitt 2015 p. 12). The positive outcome of late adulthood is wisdom and the negative outcome is regret. Like most people in late adulthood‚ Hank reflects on his life. He loves to tell stories about his life to anyone
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