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Psychological Theory of Lifespan Development

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Psychological Theory of Lifespan Development

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Q1 PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY OFLIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT 1.1Changes is one thing that occur throughout the life of person.Lifespan development in simple words can be described ascognitive and physical changes that occurs in the life of person.From the moment the change in conception begins it carries on tillthe death of person (Baum, 2016). There are six stage of lifespandevelopment that is infancy, childhood adolescence earlyadulthood middle age and older age. Psychology studies the senseof perception, cognition, learning etc., of person with its interactionwith environment. According to this there are several types oftheory such as Freud, Erikson, Maslow etc. Sigmund Freud has given the psychodynamic theory ofpsychology, its one of the most famous and known theory. Its asystematic study that study the behaviour, emotion and feeling ofthe people and relate it to the early experience of person (Smith,2015). According to this theory the behaviour and thoughts of aperson get motivated by the internal unconscious forces. In contrastto above theory Erikson has given his own theory according to himthe external environment plays major role in the building of humanbehaviour and its thought process. This study stated that bothculture and society are responsible for the shape of human mind. Other than above two there are more theory which hasdifferent view regarding the behaviour of person. Piaget theoryemphasis on the internal represent of the people and hoe they thinkof the world. In the view of Darwin theory, It's the geneticinheritance that determined the behaviour of an individual whichare adopted by human in order to survive (Feldman, 2016).Abraham Maslow has also present his view and said that behaviouris chosen by the free will of person and its motivated by naturalability.Q2PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORIES AND ITSCONCEPT RELATED TO LIFE STAGEPiaget model is based on cognitive perspective, that focus on theouter world. This theory is also known as development stagetheory. The theory will explain the qualitative difference betweenthe logical ability of child and adult and help in properunderstanding of the change in the behaviour of person with time.This theory highlights the difference between the way a child andadult think. Cleverness use in answering the question (Newmanand Newman, 2017). The level of knowledge as well as theunderstanding all had been observed. With the help of this he triesto make understand that with time human develop and improvethrough biological maturation and environmental experience thathe goes through different stages of time. According to this he comeupwithfourstagesSensor motor stage: This stage focusses on the age between thebirth and 2 years. In this stage a child learns from its surroundingfrom the object and people that surrounded him. They learn fromthe process of trial and error. In this stage the level of knowledge isvery limited and is based on the psychical interaction. Pre-operational stage: This stage analyses the children between theage of 2-7 years. In this stage children are more capable and canuse different symbols in order to present their views. They are able
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