Human development

Course work on Human Development

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Course work on Human Development

1 . Compare Erick Erickson 's psychosocial development with Sigmund Freud 's psychosexual Development

Sigmund Freud hypothesized that each individual goes through five psychosexual stages . The psychosexual stages are five different developmental periods - oral , anal , phallic , latency , and genital stages - during which the individual seeks pleasure from different areas of the body associated with sexual feelings . Freud emphasized that the child 's first five years are the most important to social and personality development (Boeree

, 2006

Freud pointed out that satisfying one of the child 's needs becomes a source of potential conflict between the child , who wants immediate gratification , and the parent , who places restrictions on when , where and how the child 's need should be satisfied . For example , the child may want to be fed immediately , while the parent may want to delay the feeding to a more convenient time . Freud believed that interactions between parent and child in satisfying these psychosexual needs - for example , during breastfeeding or toilet training - greatly influence the child 's social development and future social interactions (Boeree 2006

Freud 's psychosexual stages are part of his larger psychoanalytic theory of personality . Thus according to Freud , a child will encounter different kinds of problems in infancy and childhood , which will shape his social and personality development (Boeree , 2006

Also , according to Erikson , a child will encounter different kinds of problems in infancy and childhood , which will shape one 's social and...