Explain How The Stages Of Development Impact On Life Especially Early Years, Adolescence, Early Adulthood, Middle Age And Old Age.

Explain How The Stages Of Development Impact On Life Especially Early Years, Adolescence, Early Adulthood, Middle Age And Old Age.

Explain how the stages of development impact on life especially early years, adolescence, early adulthood, middle age and old age.

Development describes the growth of humans throughout the lifespan from conception to death, examining how we develop physically, mental and socially.   Development theories are broken down in to specific stages, which we must have to pass before we can move to the next stage.  
In my essay I will discuss how the stages of development impact on life especially early years, adolescence, early adulthood, middle age and old age. I will look at different psychological development theories and stages.   Most of these stages are progressive, however a person can fail to complete a stage while still continuing and this can result in difficulties later in life according to Erikson’s psychosocial and freud’s psychosexual.   Freud believed that we develop through stages based upon particular erogenous zone and if these stages are completed successfully the result is healthy.   Unsuccessful completion means a child becomes fixated on that particular zone.   Example a person who is fixated at the anal stage may develop anal retentive personality in which the individual is stringent, orderly, rigid and obsessive.
There are few stages of development, early childhood, middle childhood and adolescence.   Piaget argues that child’s intelligence develops through his physical interaction with the environment.   Early childhood is a time of tremendous growth across all areas of development.   According to Piaget this stage start from birth to two years of age, children are in the sensorimotor stage of cognitive development. Sensorimotor stage is one of the four stages of Jean Piaget cognitive development.   At these stage children are just beginning to learn though language development, this is the period where children figure out how to make use of their bodies.   They do this by experiencing everything with their five senses and by learning how to crawl,...