Human Development / Up Video Series - 2486 Words

Rhonda Estep PSY109: Human Development Pennsylvania Institute of Technology June 6, 2016 Human Development/ UP Video series Erikson’s psychosocial theory of development underscores the important effect that external conditions, society and parents have on an individual’s personality development. The eight interrelated stages that every individual undergoes include infant, toddler, preschooler, school - child, adolescent, young adult, middle aged adult and older adult. The most important values for these successive groups are hope, will, purpose, competence, fidelity, love, care, and wisdom respectively. For the school aged child, their psychology is wired to value and pursue competence. They struggle with the crisis of industry vs.†¦show more content†¦Middle childhood years (6 to 11) How two of the participants (or more) successfully resolved the crisis. To demonstrate the successful resolution of the Industry vs. Inferiority crisis, Andrew and Paul would serve as case examples. Andrew schooled in a wealthy school in Kensington, London. Andrew tried to work hard (industry) and achieve competence in order to fit in. He sought to prove competent by adopting most of the ideals of his father during his pre-preparatory school years. He claimed that he liked reading The Financial Times at the age of seven. In later life, he confirms that this position was a mere mimicry of his father’s position on the ideal newspaper to read. Andrew, therefore, resolved the crisis of industry vs. inferiority by mimicking his father’s perceived competent behavior. He could easily quote the Cambridge and Oxford University’s as his dream schools. This underscores the pressure for conformity to certain ideal choices that the children from rich backgrounds face. Charles was equally ambitious by the time he was seven. He was an enthusiastic learner drawn from a rich suburb. He successfully pursued his studies through prep school, and later went Marlborough. He was competent at the young age of seven, and this meant that he had successfully managed to resolve the industry vs. inferiority crisis. He went on to become a competent journalist in later life, working on documentaries and leading