Stages of Development in Psychology Introduced in the late 1950s, Erik Erikson, a German-born child psychologist, identified eight developmental stages of life that contributed to an individual's self-identity. At each stage, a person experiences a psychosocial crisis. The individual's response to...
As discussed at the beginning of this chapter, developmental psychologists often divide our development into three areas: physical development, cognitive development, and psychosocial development. Mirroring Erikson’s stages, lifespan development is divided into different stages that are based on age. We ...
The ways in which individuals’ social interactions and expectations change across the life span. lPsychosocial stage Proposed by Erik Erikson, one of the successive developmental stages that focus on an individual’s orientation toward the self and others; these stages incorporate both the sexual and...
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Stages Are Continuous Although I describe the stages as if they are separate, discrete experiences, they are actually continuous. This is why many developmental theories use the colors of the rainbow to refer to the stages (e.g., Wilber, 2007). This helps us keep in mind that the stages ...
at birth. By the latter part of the 20th century, developmental psychologists had become interested in many broad issues dealing with the psychological process throughout life, including the relation of heredity and environment,continuityand discontinuity in development, and behavioral and cognitive ...
throughout early childhood through the age of college students, by using theories from developmental psychology. Those studying this branch of psychology in a research situation may seek to discover the typical stages and rates of development during the human lifespan. They may focus on language acq...
of Brandtstadter (1998, 1999) in regard to intentionality and goal pursuit in the adult and aged years; of Elder (1998) in regard to the role played by historical variation in the course of human life; of Feldman (2000) in regard to stages of cognitive development; of Fischer and Bidell...
Study all stages of life, but usually focus on infant/child development: Prenatal – Conception to Birth Infancy – Birth to 18 mo. Early Child – 1.5 – 6 years Late Child – 6 – 13 years Adolescence – 13 – 20 years DEVELOPMENTAL POP QUIZ: Assuming a “normally developing” child: ...
Developmental psychology is the study of how people grow and develop from birth throughout their entire lifespan. It refers to the physical, intellectual, emotional, and psychological changes that take place during different stages of life. This branch of psychology examines how thoughts, feelings, ...