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Human Development

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The Study of changes in people from conception until death

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What is Development

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  • The sequence of age-related changes that occur as we move from birth through to death

Encapsulates:

  • Physical, emotional and cognitive changes
  • Nature vs Nurture
  • Continuity vs Transition
  • Person vs Situation
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Continuity vs Transition

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The study of what stays the same in our lives vs what is changing

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Types of Developmental Research

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  • Cross Sectional
  • Longitudinal
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Cross Sectional Research

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  • Studies various groups by category such as by age
  • studies done in present time
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Longitudinal studies

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Studies a group of people over time to see how attitudes or behaviour change

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Advantages of Cross Sectional Studies

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  • Gives information about age differences
  • Are quick to do
  • Are inexpensive
  • Can supply a large sample
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Disadvantages of Cross Sectional Studies

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  • Cohorts are difficult to separate
  • Can be generalised
  • No Historical continuity
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Advantages of Longitudinal Studies

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  • Gives information about age changes
  • Increased reliability
  • More in depth information per participant
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Disadvantages of Longitudinal Studies

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  • Expensive
  • Time consuming
  • Restricted by generalisability
  • Small sample affected by dropouts.
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Preferential Looking Behaviours

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  • Studies babies and gives them two images to look at
  • Seeks to determine which image the prefer to look at.
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Habituation Method

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  • Studies in babies to determine if they decrease their response to a stimulus if they are exposed to it repeatedly
  • This concept states that an animal or a human may learn to ignore a stimulus because of repeated exposure to it.
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Attachment Theory

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Studies Attachment and separation anxiety

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What is Attachment

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  • refers to the emotional bonds of connection between infants and their caregivers
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What is Separation Anxiety

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The emotional distress displayed by infants when separated from their primary caregivers who they have formed an attachment with

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Harry Harlow - 1959

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  • Questions why do attachments form
  • Asks do we seek food or comfort
  • Studied infant monkeys with artificial mothers
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Artificial Mother Experiment

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Monkeys separated from mothers at birth were raised using two artificial mothers

  • For four newborn monkeys the cloth mother lactated and the wire mother did not
  • For another four newborn monkeys, the wire mother lactated and the cloth mother did not

Found there was a preference for cloth mother – regardless of which mother fed them, especially when fearful

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What happens when attachments are not properly formed

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Harlow found isolated infant monkeys showed:

  • withdrawal
  • rocking
  • huddling
  • unable to form sexual relationships as adults
  • when females became mothers they tended to ignore them and abuse them when they felt distressed
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John Bowlby - 1969

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  • Studied Attachment and Loss in orphans from WWII
  • found infants biologically motivated to form attachments as a survival technique
  • Found infants instinctively behave endearingly to trigger affection and protection in adults
  • Repeated experiences with caregivers establishes a working model
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Mary Ainsworth - 1967, 1978

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  • Developed the Strange Situation Procedure to assess quality of attachments between infants and caregivers
  • Attachment depends on the relationship between mother and infant
  • Babies not passive bystanders, their reactions can affect the caregivers behaviour
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There are three types of attachment

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  • Secure Attachment
  • Anxious-Ambivalent Attachment -
  • Avoidant Attachment
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Secure Attachment

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Child tends to be playful, less inhibited, exploration-oriented, sociable

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Anxious-Ambivalent Attachment

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  • Child tends to engage in visual checking signalling to reestablish contact.
  • Calling, pleading, moving to reestablish contact, clinging
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Avoidant attachment

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Child tends to maintain proximity while avoiding close contact

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Percentage of Attachment styles

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  • Secure: 75%
  • Resistant: 15%
  • Avoidant: 15%
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Response to Separation Anxiety - Attachment Style

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  • Secure: Distressed
  • Resistant: intense distress
  • Avoidant: No Sign of distress
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Stranger Anxiety response - Attachment Style

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  • Secure: Avoidance when alone, friendly when with parent.
  • Resistant: Fear of stranger
  • Avoidant: Plays with stranger
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Parent Caregiving Style - Warm/Responsive

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  • Parent generally warm and responsive
  • Good at reading cues and knowing when to be supportive and when to allow autonomy
  • Creates secure attachment
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Infant Attachment Style: Secure Attachment

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  • child welcomes close contact with caregiver
  • caregiver becomes a secure base while exploring the environment
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Adult Attachment Style: Secure

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  • finds it relatively easy to get close to others
  • comfortable depending on others and having others rely on them
  • no real fear of abandonment
  • not afraid of others getting too close
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Parent Caregivint Style: Cold/Rejecting

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  • distant, rejecting and not very responsive
  • Child takes a lesser priority with concerns possibly lying elsewhere
  • Creates Avoidant Attachment Style
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Infant Attachment Style: Avoidant Attachment

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  • Insecure caregiver bond
  • Characterised by little separation anxiety
  • Tendency of the child to avoid or ignore the caregiver
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Adult Attachment Style: Avoidant

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  • Uncomfortable getting close to others
  • Difficulty trusting partners
  • Difficulty allowing them to depend on us
  • Not comfortable getting too close to others
  • Finds intimacy difficult with love partners
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Parents caregiving style: Ambivalent/inconsistent

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  • Inconsestent in response, sometimes warm sometimes cold
  • Appears to have own agenda
  • Is loving but doesn’t always show it in the best way
  • Creates Anxious/Ambivalent Attachment style
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Infant Attachment Style: Anxious/Ambivalent

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  • Insecure caregiver bond
  • Characterised by strong separation anxiety
  • Tendency contact initiated by the caregivers after separation
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Adult Attachment Style: Anxious/Ambivalent

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  • Feels others are reluctant to get as close as they would like
  • Often worry that partner doesn’t love them
  • Has fear of being abondened
  • Wants to merge with partner which can sometimes push them away
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Points about Attachment Theory: The Strange Sitution

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  • Attachments can be reversed if conditions that set created the attachment changes
  • There is an interaction of temperament and attachment style
  • Attachment styles may define a RELATIONSHIP, but not individuals
  • Person vs Situation is important as there are multiple causes for behaviour
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Person vs situation debat

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  • Asks whether it is the person or situation that affects behaviour
  • This relates to nature vs nurture
  • The view is that there are usually multiple causes for behaviour
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Stage Theories of Development

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  • Describing development in terms of stages
  • Progression occurs in a particular order related to age
  • A stage is a developmental period that has characteristic patterns of behaviour
  • Movement through stages is prompted by need to make sense of experiences and desire to construct and understand the world
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Types of Development Theory

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  • Continuous Development
    • says that change happens on a continuous scale without change
  • Discontinuous Development
    • says change happens in stages usually group by age
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3 main Development Theories

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  • Cognitive Development - Jean Piaget
  • Personality Development - Erik Erikson
  • Moral Development - Kohlbergs Stage Theory
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  • Jean Piaget - 1952
  • Cognitive development refers to transitions in patterns of thinking, including reasoning, remembering, and problem solving
    • All children progress through 4 stages of cognitive
    development in the same order – although exact ages may vary
    • Believed that intelligence was not random, but was a set of organized cognitive structures that the infant actively constructed
    • This construction occurs through the adaptation to the environment
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Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development

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  • Stage 1 - Sensory Motor Period
  • Stage 2 - Preoperational Period
  • Stage 3 - Concrete Opertional
  • Stage 4 - Formal Operational
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Piaget’s Sensorimotor Period

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  • Birth thru 2 years
  • Coordination of sensory input and motor responses
  • Development of object permanence
    • child recognises that objects
      continue to exist even when they are no longer visible
  • Innate reflexes at the beginning of the stage
  • Use mental symbols to represent objects
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Piaget’s Preoperational Period

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  • 2 yrs thru 7 yrs
  • Development of Symbolic Thought
  • Marked by:
    • irreversibility
    • centration
    • egocentrism
    • animism
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Irreversibility

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A stage in early child development in which a child falsely believes that actions cannot be reversed or undone.

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Centration

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  • The tendency to focus on one salient aspect of a situation
  • Neglects the possibillty of other, possibly relevant aspects
  • eg: Perceiving that “Mummy cannot also be a Tara or Jason’s sister or a wife, sister or daughter
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Egocentrism

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  • Not able to differentiate between self and other
  • In children usually cannot see that Mother is separate from themselves
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Piaget’s Concrete Operational

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  • 7 Yrs thru 11 Yrs
  • Mental Operations applied to concrete events
  • Mastery of Conservation - The ability to perceive volume when presented in different shapes
  • Develops understanding of Heirarchical Classification
  • Acquisition of reversibility – allows a child to undo an action
  • Acquisition of decentration – allows the child to focus on more than one feature of a problem simultaneously
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Heirarchical Conservation

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Hierarchical Classification is a system of grouping things according to a hierarchy, or levels and orders.

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Mastery of Conservation

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  • Conservation refers to a logical thinking ability that allows a person to determine that a certain quantity will remain the same despite adjustment of the container, shape, or apparent size, according to the psychologist Jean Piaget.
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Piaget’s Formal Operational Period

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  • 11 years thru to adulthood
  • Mental Operations applied to abstract Ideas
  • Characterised by:
    – more systematic in problem-solving in adolescence
    – Enjoyment in abstract thinking and contemplation
    – Envision possible courses of action
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Animism

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The Belief that all things are living

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Piaget’s Conservation Task

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Mastery of Conservation: Pendulum Problem

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Points of Evaluation: Cognitive Development

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  • Piaget undestates how social interactions influence cognitive development
  • Piaget’s tasks are culturaly biased
  • Schooling and literacty affects rates of development
  • Piaget is vague about the processes that give rise to children’s thinking and what produces cognitive growth
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  • Erik Erikson - 1953
  • Developed Eight stages of lifespan
  • Each stage comprised of two psychosocial crises, one positive and one negative
  • Movement from one stage:
    • biological issue related to age
    • resolved socially
    • leads to identity formation and personality development
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Erikson’s stages of Psychosocial Development

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Erickson’s Theory of Personality Development

Stage One - 1st Year of Life

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  • Trust vs Mistrust
  • Is my world predictable and supportive?
  • the infant must depend solely on the caregiver which should lead to a trusting view of the world
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Trust vs Mistrust

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  • Stage one
  • 1st year of life
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Erickson’s Theory of Personality Development

Stage Two - 2nd - 3rd Years of life

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  • Autonomy vs Shame and Doubt
  • Can i do things myself or must I always rely on others
  • The child begins to take personal responsibility
  • should begin to acquire a sense of self sufficiency
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Autonomy vs Shame and Doubt

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  • Stage Two of development
  • 2nd - 3rd year of life
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Erickson’s Theory of Personality Development

Stage Three - 4th - 6th year of life

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  • Initiative vs Guilt
  • Am I good or bad?
  • Children learn to get along with family members
  • This tends to lead towards self confidence
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Initiative vs Guilt

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  • Stage Three of Ericksons Theory of Personality Development
  • 4th - 6th Year of Life
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Erickson’s Theory of Personality Development

Stage Four - 6th Year of life to Puberty

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  • Industry vs Inferiority
  • Am I competent or am I worthless
  • Children must function socially outside of their family
  • This develops a sense of competence
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Industry vs Inferiority

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  • Stage Four
  • 6th Year to Puberty
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Erickson’s Theory of Personality Development

Stage Five - Adolescence

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  • Identity vs Role Confusion
  • Who am I and where am I going
    • James Marcia’s Four Identity Status
      • Identity Acheivement
      • Foreclosure
      • Moratorium
      • Identity Diffusion
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Identity vs Role Confusion

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  • Stage Five
  • Adolescence
  • Add James Marcia’s 1980 - Four Identity Status
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James Marcia - 1980

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  • developed Four Identity Status based on Eriksons Identity vs Role Confusion stage of development in adolescence
    • Identity Acheivement
    • Identity Moratorium
    • Foreclosure
    • Identity Diffusion
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Marcia’s Identity Acheivement

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  • Active exploration of beliefs and values
  • Crisis of values is experienced
  • Strong commitment to a highly developed set of beliefs and values.
  • Characterized by high commitment and high exploration.
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Marcia’s Identity Moratorium

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  • The status in which an adolescent is currently in a crisis
  • Exploration of various commitments and is ready to make choices
  • No commitment Has been made to these choices yet.
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Marcia’s Identity Diffusion

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  • Adolescent has not experienced a crisis yet and is not committed to own ideals or values
  • Finds Commitments difficult
  • Struggle with relating to others and society
  • Extremely impressionable when it comes to new ideas and beliefs because they do not value their own.
  • Often feel lost in life and express no interest in improving themselves or creating long-term goals
  • May seek gratification through external forces
  • Has difficulty exploring own Identity seeking identity
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Marcia’s Identity Foreclosure

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  • Where an Adolescent has an identity but hasn’t explored other options or ideas.
  • Most common in young adolescents
  • Individual has just adopted the traits and qualities of parents and friends.
  • Has a commitment to their values and ideals but may not yet have experienced a crisis
  • May have committed too soon to one set of ideals without questioning their own values or beleifs
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Erikson’s Theory of Personality Development

Stage Six - Early Adulthood

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  • Intimacy vs Isolation
  • Shall I share my life with another or live alone?
  • The concern with the ability to share intimacy with others
  • Tends to lead to empathy and openness
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Intimacy vs Isolation

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  • Stage Six
  • Early Adulthood
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Erikso’s Theory of Personality Development

Stage Seven - Middle Adulthood

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  • Generativity vs Stagnation
  • Will I produce something of real value
  • Self-Absorption involves concern for future generations
  • Tends towards unselfish guidance of younger people
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Generativity vs Self Absorption

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  • Stage Seven
  • Middle Adulthood
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Erikson’s Theory of Personality Development

Stage Eight - Late Adulthood

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  • Integrity vs Despair
  • Have I lived a full life?
  • Involves overcoing the tendency to dwll on mistakes of the past
  • Begins to manage the imminent prescence of death.
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Integrity vs Despair

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  • Stage Eight
  • Late Adulthood
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Erikson’s Theory of Development

Evaluation of strenghts & weaknesses

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Theory accounts for continuity & transition in personality development

  • Continuity → connection between early childhood experience and aspects of later personality
  • Transition → shows how new challenges in social relationships stimulate personality growth throughout life
  • Depends on illustrative case studies → may be interpreted in multiple ways
  • Idealised description of “typical” developmental patterns → does not account for individual differences
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  • Lawrence Kohlberg 1969
  • Developed Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Development
  • Development of Moral Reasoning in childhood and adolescence
  • Three premises underlying Moral Development
    • Based on moral reasoning not moral action
    • Unfolds in a stage like manner
    • Based on a sense of social justice
  • Six Stages across three levels
    • Individual Orientation
    • Social Orientation
    • Ethical Orientation
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Stages of Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Development

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  1. Preconventional Level
  2. Conventional Level
  3. Postconventional Level
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Kohlbergs Preconventional level of Moral Development

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  • Younger children think in terms of external authority
  • Acts considered right or wrong based on potential punishment
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Kohlbergs Postconventional level of Moral Development

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  • Changes in adolscence towards more developed moral reasoning
  • Acts are individually judged by a personal code of ethics
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Kohlbergs Conventional level of Moral Development

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Older children see rules as necessary for maintaining social order

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Evaluation of Kohlbergs Theory of Moral Development

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  • Universality
  • Moral reasoning NOT moral action
  • Gender Bias
  • Hypothetial vs real-life issues

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