In my 18 years of life, I’ve gone through a multitude of stages and phases of development. As I end my adolescence and enter my early adulthood, I reflect on my development and see how certain theories of Lifespan Growth and Development can be applied and witnessed throughout my life.
Socioemotional Development in Infancy As a child, my mother and father described me as an “easy going child”. They rarely had problems with my behavior and did not have trouble teaching me what and what not to do. According to Chess and Thomas’s classification of a child’s temperament, I would fall under the classification of an easy child. They describe an easy child as one who generally has a positive mood, adapts easily to new experiences, and quickly establishes regular routines in infancy. Erik Erikson says that infants go through the stage of Trust versus Mistrust. In this stage, an infant learns determines who it can and cannot trust. Because I was an easy child, I was more likely to trust another person and less
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My self-esteem grew, and I have a positive self-concept. My self-efficacy was still in the process of development, but I still possessed some self-efficacy. Instead of seeing situations and events through my eyes only, I began to see different sides of them or better known as perspective taking. In Erikson’s theories of development, individuals in this period of life go through the stage of Industry versus Inferiority. Industry is characterized as receiving praise by others for their work and accomplishments while inferiority is characterized as receiving neglect or little to no attention for their work and accomplishments. A combination of the two is optimal because it leads to the development of competence which is what I exhibited as in this stage of life. I knew what I was and was not able to do because I had experienced industry and
The importance of an individual’s lifespan has to be taken into account in order to fully understand the human development. Throughout this module I have learned that an individual’s lifespan consists of several beliefs that form a group of perspectives, that gives a consistent outlook on the nature of development. The concept of lifespan development is the study that observes patterns of growth and change and stability in one’s behavior that occurs throughout one’s lifespan. An interesting thing I picked up is that lifespan development derives from other features, such as sociology, that suggest that this field of lifespan development did not completely originate from developmental psychology. There are different areas in a lifespan such as
Lifespan development is very important in life because that is how people become stronger, experience the stages that life is about, and have the knowledge to do so. Not only people go through the stages, but it all starts from infancy to old age in life because it is all about learning how to deal with our own personal experience. People experience stages throughout their lifespan because there are eight stages that Erikson created for psychosocial in life. Every single person in the world has gone through many experiences and has had developmental struggle just like I experienced in my life. A few years ago I had a personal experience of identity versus role confusion stage, connected with the stage, learned from the experience, and learned
Bee, H. and Boyd, D. (2001). Physical and cognitive development in adolescence. Lifespan Development. 3ed., 292-293.
In Keenan, Evans, and Crowley, Paul Baltes gives six principles of lifespan and a three factor model of contextual influences on development. The first principle is the development of lifelong which is in two parts, the first where the development goes for the entire life span and the second where development may involve processes not at birth but throughout a person’s life span. The second development is multidirectional and multidimensional. Multidimensional is that development cannot be described by a criterion in behavior. Multidirectional maintains a normal path that development must and should take which mean ways that is beneficial. The other principles is the development of gains and losses, Baltes says any development have growth
The lives of people never remain in stasis; instead, as a human develops, his or her life path changes accordingly with his or her gains and losses in cognitive and physical ability. This essay will discuss how these changes in life path affect people in middle adulthood (40 – 60) with reference to Erikson’s developmental theory and give examples of how these changes impact social function. It will use peer-reviewed journal articles and books as references to form a reliable information base when discussing the theories and scientific outcomes of aging. It will begin by explaining and critiquing Erikson’s developmental theory and then continue to discuss the kinds of changes being made in middle adulthood and the impact of these
Exploring Lifespan Development (2nd ed.). Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon. Levy-Hinte, J. & Sons, J. London, M. (Producer), & Hardwicke, C. (Director). (2003). The 'Secondary' of the 'Secondary'.
Lifespan development is essential, as it is the changes that happen to us throughout a person’s lifespan. Our development occurs at ages stages where we develop from infancy till death. This essay will contain my life story to display the domains in 5 age stages in my lifespan development. The domains I will be exploring is in this essay is physical, emotional, cognitive, social, cultural and moral domain. The influence of biological and environmental play a significant role in my development. Development is influenced by nature or nurture and its affect will occur throughout lifespan. The changes that occur during development have stage. Each theorists has stages of development where they display the changes. This essay will explore my development that will support theorist such as Erikson, Vygotsky, Berk, Piaget and other theorist. The age stages of prenatal will display physical and emotional domain, Infancy (0-2) will portray social and emotional domain, young children (2-6) will show cognitive and social domain, middle childhood (6-12) will display socio-cultural and moral domain and adolescence will portray nature vs. nurture and cultural domain. Development is crucial for a healthy wellbeing. As a physiotherapist it is significant to understand development in age stages, as it will aid knowing how young children will react compared to an adolescence who is more development mentally, emotionally, physically, socially and culturally.
Berk, L. E. (2010). Development through the lifespan (5th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.
Berk, L. E. (2010). Exploring lifespan development (2nd ed.). Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon. ISBN: 9780205748594
Life span is a very interesting topic when looked at from a psychology point of view. We begin as cells that eventually form into an embryo, then to a fetus, then finally into a full-blown infant. From the moment we enter the world as an infant we begin to grow and change. This paper will explain the steps from zygotes to adulthood. There is a vast amount of changes that humans go through in a lifetime and we never stop growing.
Human life-span begins at conception and ends at death. The discipline that studies the changes that occurs during this period is known as the study of human development and it is subdivided into three domains - biosocial development, cognitive development, and psychosocial development. The life span point of view encompasses intellectual functioning and the fundamental theory that development does not end at adulthood, but is transformed over the course of one’s entire lifecycle.
In researching about the Twelve Stages of Development I have a new look about life and how we grow in the people we are today. You have twelve developmental stages pre-birth, birth, infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, late childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, midlife, mature adulthood, late adulthood and death. These all make us the person we are today and help us grow. Each human has to go through each stage in its lifetime. Human growth and development is an examination of human development across the lifespan with research and common Physical, emotional and social developmental milestones. Since each stage of life has its own unique gift to give to humanity, we need to do whatever we can to support each stage, and to protect
Hoffnung, R. J., Jeffrey Pausé, C., Burton Smith, R., Hine, A., Seifert, K., Ward, L. & Hoffnung, M. (2013).Lifespan Development: A Chronological Approach. 2nd ed. John Wiley & Sons Australia.
Kail, R. V., & Cavanaugh, J. C. (2007). Human development: A life-span view (5th ed.). [Adobe Digitial Editions version]. doi: 1009-0001-161F-00001620
Each person’s life consists of normal stages of development; this is known as life span development. This development starts at infancy and continues through death. In each stage of development, each person experiences four types of development; physical, cognitive, social, and personality.