LIFE STAGES

Development through Life Stages



Development through Life Stages

TASK 01

Identify the key aspects of physical, intellectual, emotional and social development that take place through life stages.

Erik Erikson about the ages of man that unfold in a sequence determined by the epigenetic principle (states that every stage of human development guides by an internal natural, order that acts as a biological reprogramming that interacts with the through both physical and environmental, has a transformed life).

School age: between 5 and 10 years, the child begins to spend more and more extended periods away from home and gives more importance to the school. Arises the sense of being competent play, competitive sports and school performance are crucial in building a sense of being competent to the extent that the child does well and relate well with their peers. When this does not happen there, is the feeling of inferiority or incompetence (Freud 2008). Adolescence: Period between 10 and 19 years the biological changes of puberty give rise to physiological responses. The adolescent separates progressively from the family and raises the issue of identity. The identity defines by Erikson as the sense of continuity and stability over time of the person.

Young Adult Stage: Period between 20 and 40 years, is the most physical ability, and corresponds to the dynamic integration in the workplace and society. The period of training and relationship building Erikson the central achievement of this stage is the ability of intimacy with the other, and the most serious risk is that of isolation (Fox 2004 ). Stage mature or middle adulthood: Period between 40 and 65 years, according to Erikson characterizes by the development of the capacity of generatively of those who know how to care for the development of others, whether their own children or, younger generation.

Intellectual Development

Teens may think in terms of what can be true.

Can you imagine an infinite variety of possibilities?

They are able to do hypothetical reasoning.

Residues are egocentric thinking.

They think in broader terms about moral issues and plans for their future.

Emotional Development

According to Erikson, the socialization method comprises of eight stages the eight phases of man. His eight phases of man formulates, not through untested work, but through broad extending know-how in psychotherapy, encompassing comprehensive know-how with young children and adolescents from reduced as well as top and middle communal classes (Coleman 2001). Each stage is considered by Erikson as a psychosocial crisis, which arises and claims tenacity before the next stage can be satisfactorily negotiated.

Learning basic trust versus basic mistrust (hope)

Learning autonomy versus shame (will)

Learning initiative versus guilt (purpose)

Industry versus inferiority (competence)

Learning identity versus identity diffusion (fidelity)

Learning intimacy versus isolation (love)

Learning generativity versus self-absorption (care)

Integrity versus despair (wisdom)

Social Development

In his adolescence is a crucial time and critical for the development of identity, when it reaches that point you to live in society, the distinction is the nature of psychosocial and contains cognitive elements (the individual judges himself to the warning light on how they judge others.) It extends the space of social interactions the family ...