Essay On Erikson's Eight Stages Of Psychosocial Development

Ava, is a ten year old girl who is from Connecticut. She is currently finishing up fourth grade at her local elementary school. At home she lives with her two parents as well has three siblings. She has one older sister, one younger sister, and one younger brother. Ava, like many other children her age, actively participates in organized sports as well as other activities at home. Ava lives in an upper middle class home where both her parents and extended family are active in her life. These factors, as well as many other factors, all influence what have shaped and what will continue to shape who Ava is and will be. In the classroom setting, Ava is an active student. Her hand is always raised as she eagerly shares answers and asks questions. In addition to actively participating in school, Ava also participates in multiple after school activities. For example, she plays hockey as well as takes dance lessons. For school age children, like Ava, this time period and how she develops in her school and after school activities, can relate to Erik Erikson’s fourth stage of industry vs. inferiority. Erik Erikson, after building off of Sigmund Freud, developed eight stages of psychosocial development. The fourth one of these, which tends to take place between the ages of five and twelve, or school age, is industry vs.

When she was choosing new books book club, she tended to lean towards the books that had girl protagonists. This, in correlation with Barnes and Blooms (2014), makes sense. The experiment they did found that students are most likely to pick stories that reflect either human or human like characteristics. In the case of Ava, we see that she did just that. She picked books with humans and in her case she picked books with female humans. When connecting it to Barnes and Blooms (2014), she chooses a female character because she wants to know what it 's like inside the mind of someone who is similar to