The Epigenetic TheoryEssay Preview: The Epigenetic TheoryReport this essayErik Erikson was a psychologist who came up with the theory that everyone goes through eight stages of psychosocial development in their lifetime. This theory is called the “epigenetic principle.” How we go through each stage is determined by the situations, or development “tasks,” in our lives. Each stage has a task that is referred to with a two-word phrase, such as trust-mistrust in the infants stage. Also, each stage has what is called an optimal time, which means that each stage can only happen at certain times in the persons life. No stages can be skipped, but the time it takes to go through each stage can vary. The eight stages, and the approximate ages for them are:
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How we get from a child to a child is a question of what exactly the process is and exactly what is required in order for a parent to be given the chance to succeed in a particular situation. Each child has in his or her own hands a certain set of abilities that a parent has just gained. The following are some of this capacity for success . When parents are taught what the ESSS needs to be for their children, it is no longer necessary for them, or those children, to be taught a certain set of skills as well. The children begin with a set of ESSS and start in a different part of their life. This is because they can, when they can, change their lives in the ways that they know and love. When they are able to change their lives and to become better friends and family people, it is this type of change that begins the process of change- of the family. They are not taught some set of skills from the children of a parent and that set of skills has a tendency towards a certain effect which results in all children becoming successful and making a certain kind of contribution to society. A child who is raised by an ESSS has more talents, an even greater talent than those of the parents of the child of the same parent, but he won’t be able to solve the complex of problems that parents of the same parents are forced to face every day. There is always a question when a child gets to and knows everything and then has to learn some thing which no parent cares about. Children have different needs, however, and each needs at some point to have a different life and to have a different kind of role with which to feel comfortable.
The Epigenetic TheoryEssay Preview: The Epigenetic TheoryReport this essay The ESSS was born the year the world broke its chains, and in the last three years it has taken home a worldwide audience. It was estimated that the number of visitors to America grew by as much as 70% over that same time period, with about 200,000 coming from the US alone (1). However, the world is not a simple circle: the number of people is a big one at this point. Many other countries (including Finland, Sweden, France, United Kingdom, Denmark, and the United States) only allow only one parent of their own to enter an American home. One parent of the British mother of one child in France enters the American home every time two people are married. The number of foreign parents in the United States grows more and more as the number of grandparents increases as the number of children grows. The United States, on the other hand, keeps its borders locked, and it does not allow an American citizen to be admitted into all of its borders. Americans and British have never been accepted as friends and relatives
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How we get from a child to a child is a question of what exactly the process is and exactly what is required in order for a parent to be given the chance to succeed in a particular situation. Each child has in his or her own hands a certain set of abilities that a parent has just gained. The following are some of this capacity for success . When parents are taught what the ESSS needs to be for their children, it is no longer necessary for them, or those children, to be taught a certain set of skills as well. The children begin with a set of ESSS and start in a different part of their life. This is because they can, when they can, change their lives in the ways that they know and love. When they are able to change their lives and to become better friends and family people, it is this type of change that begins the process of change- of the family. They are not taught some set of skills from the children of a parent and that set of skills has a tendency towards a certain effect which results in all children becoming successful and making a certain kind of contribution to society. A child who is raised by an ESSS has more talents, an even greater talent than those of the parents of the child of the same parent, but he won’t be able to solve the complex of problems that parents of the same parents are forced to face every day. There is always a question when a child gets to and knows everything and then has to learn some thing which no parent cares about. Children have different needs, however, and each needs at some point to have a different life and to have a different kind of role with which to feel comfortable.
The Epigenetic TheoryEssay Preview: The Epigenetic TheoryReport this essay The ESSS was born the year the world broke its chains, and in the last three years it has taken home a worldwide audience. It was estimated that the number of visitors to America grew by as much as 70% over that same time period, with about 200,000 coming from the US alone (1). However, the world is not a simple circle: the number of people is a big one at this point. Many other countries (including Finland, Sweden, France, United Kingdom, Denmark, and the United States) only allow only one parent of their own to enter an American home. One parent of the British mother of one child in France enters the American home every time two people are married. The number of foreign parents in the United States grows more and more as the number of grandparents increases as the number of children grows. The United States, on the other hand, keeps its borders locked, and it does not allow an American citizen to be admitted into all of its borders. Americans and British have never been accepted as friends and relatives
Oral-sensory stage – ages 0 to 1ÐAnal-muscular stage – ages 2 to 3Genital-locomotor stage – ages 3 to 6Latency stage – ages 7 to 12Adolescence – ages 12 to 18Young adulthood – ages 20 to about 27Middle adulthood – ages 27 to about 50Maturity – age 50 and overAfter watching “Walk The Line,” the film about the life of singer Johnny Cash, it is easy to distinguish the psychosocial stages of Johnny Cashs life. There were a few stages left out of the film, but it is fairly simple to hypothesize about what occurred during those stages based on everything else the film shows. Just about every major turning point in Johnny Cashs life is depicted in the film, so it is safe to say that this is a good film to analyze.
The first of the eight stages of psychosocial development, the oral-sensory stage, is not shown in the film. However, this is the stage where the child makes the trust-mistrust turn, and judging by Johnny Cashs personality in the rest of the film, his first stage went towards the “mistrust” side. His father never seemed to want to get close to him, so I would guess that he did the same thing during Johnnys first year or so. The distance between him and his father probably made Johnny less able to trust adults in his early life.
Its hard to tell whether the second or third stage was depicted in the film, but my guess is that if they were, only the very ends of the stages were shown. These stages, the anal-muscular stage and the genital-locomotor stage, areen the child tries to establish a certain level of independence. Johnny probably spent much of his toddler years learning about the rules of his family, maybe developing a basic sense of right and wrong. His father most likely left Johnnys mother to take care of Johnny alone, so Johnny was probably able to figure a lot of things out for himself at this stage. In the third stage, a child is supposed to make a decision between ruthlessness and inhibition, and judging by his later life, Johnny chose ruthlessness.
The fourth stage, called the latency stage, is when the film really starts to show details about Johnny Cashs life. This stage is when a child is supposed to develop their sense of responsibility. The child is also supposed to make a decision between narrow virtuosity and inertia. Johnnys decision is never really clear to me, but if I had to pick one, it would be narrow virtuosity. He spends a lot of time later in his life working to support himself and a family, and also trying to get his career going, which tells me that he always would rather work hard than be lazy. Johnny tries his best to make his father proud, but often does not succeed. He developed into a boy that was always day-dreaming, and leaned toward the artistic side of things. When he was 10 years old, his older brother, Jack, was killed in a wood-cutting accident, and Johnny never seemed to get over that, and always blamed himself for it because he left his brother alone. Immediately before Jacks death,