Adolescent Stressors Adolescents today face a myriad of stressors in their lives that can impact who they are and who they will become. Bio-psychosocial stressors appear to be more prevalent in minority adolescents who reside in lower socioeconomic households. Impoverished neighborhoods experience a great deal of financial difficulties‚ crime‚ and single parent homes. Adolescents growing up in these households often have lower grades in school and a lack of self confidence verses their counterparts
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The Erikson’s Psychosocial theory was very interesting to me‚ I was always wanted to know more about Erikson’s and his theories‚ I learned a lot about him in the sociology class and I found his theories more close to my own way of thinking that is the way I chose him and chose his theory. And also his idea of having eight stages was the most realistic and close to me. In this research paper‚ I will cover the following: general information about Erikson and his theory Stages. The primary theorist
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Unit 137 Outcome 1 Communication Physical Moral Emotional Personal + Social 0 – 6mnths • Cries‚ coos‚ and grunts • Babbling • Pays attention to own name • Focuses both eyes together • Visual and oral exploration • Imitates some movements and facial expressions • Feeds 3-5 times a day • Control of head and arm movements • Reaches‚ grasps‚ and puts objects in mouth • Emotional distress • Smiles at a face (social smiling) • Can respond positively to touch • Laughs • Begins to realize
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other points of view‚ understand that everything is not black and white‚ mentally reflect and understand cause and effect of relationships that concerns facts. The "cognitive development reaches its fullest potential" (Cooks‚ 2005‚ p.5-19). 2. List and define each of Erikson’s Psychosocial stages. Erikson’s Psychosocial theory has eight distinct stages: According to Fleming (2004) Erik Erikson (1982) developed the eight human developmental stage. At each stage there is a crisis‚ as follows:
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Stanley‚ who is trainable mentally impaired‚ requires a lot of Cynthia’s attention. George attends Oakland Community College with plans on transferring to a four year university in his junior year. Cynthia has a great relationship with both of her children. Cynthia is in the middle class income range grossing $65‚000 a year. She is an African American who owns her home and resides in the city of Detroit. Cynthia attended the University of Detroit and currently has 98 credit hours towards her accounting
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Cognitive Development Preschool children ages 3 - 5: Cognitive development refers to the acquisition and use of thinking skills. It a child’s increasing ability to think and reason‚ they are active participants in the learning process‚ they are learning how to learn. Like scientists preschool children are curious about what they observe‚ they ask questions‚ make predictions about what will happen and test their ideas‚ they recall past experiences and apply what they know to
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Human Lifespan and Development: The Nature of Children Human Lifespan and Development: The Nature of Children Philosophical ideas about the development of children arose from old ideas about human nature and history. Many of the philosophers who proposed philosophical ideas about childhood development are considered either nativists or maturationists. The view of nativists is that behavior is innate and is strongly affected by the genes. Maturationists also believe that genes influence behavior
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Outcome 1 – Be able to contribute to assessments of the development needs of children and young people Outcome 1 – Be able to contribute to assessments of the development needs of children and young people (1.1) Share your EYFS assessment records and observations with your assessor For confidentiality reasons these records are kept in the office in a locked cabinet. Assessor to confirm that observations are carried out in all areas of development (1.2) List different observation methods and give
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The fifth stage of Erikson’s Psychosocial theory is the “identity vs. identity confusion” stage. This stage typically occurs in adolescence; individuals strive to answer the question “who am I?”. I didn’t achieve this stage until the end of my high school career. In middle school‚ I was not very popular‚ I was intimidated by those who were. I was a very shy and weird person‚ I tried fitting in and changing myself to be liked and have friends. I succeeded in gaining popularity when I began high school
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Using Freud’s five psychosocial stages we can assume Freud would describe Marty as resulting of being fixated during the anal stage of Freud’s five stages because of his unusual rigidity and punctuality. Mike shows signs of having had problems during his phallic stage due to his lack of conscious. Mike may also surfer from an unrestrained superego‚ while Marty seems to have a proper superego. Mike and Marty seem to be polar opposites as far as personality. While I would score Mike very highly in
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