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The purpose of this assignment is to understand the human growth associated with each life cycle group. There are eight age groups while each has its own stage of development and related tasks. The first age group is infants and the related stage of development is trusts vs. mistrust. This development task is related with a given age group to provide attachment and bonding. The rest age group is of early childhood and the stage of development includes Autonomy vs. Shame and doubt. This development task, for this group is to have potty training and self-maintenance. Subsequently, the next age group of schooling includes initiative vs. guilty and the related development tasks are academic success, making friends, social competency and friendship. …show more content…

An individual can master skills during middle childhood as this is also considered as school age and generally perform task with similar age group peers. However, the formal schooling process that is done when someone attends early adulthood continues to provide the opportunity to an individual so that the self-identity process gets evolved over a period of time. The process of growth occurs from middle childhood through early adulthood while developing competency then going through school adjustments, being able to drive peer relationships and learns to play by rules. Not only does the academic achievements helps an individual to develop self-identity but by schooling and having the right socialistic competency to help an individual to slowly adopt the process of self-identity. The interpersonal relationships get gently developed from childhood to adulthood through a comprehensive process. This developed through having mother-child relationship where an individual child comes across an intimate behaviour from their mother in a form of love and affection. Therefore, the family member’s attachments towards the child drives the necessary behavioural pattern and helps develop the interpersonal relationships with love …show more content…

However, middle childhood intimacy is more towards parents, family members and friends. This is because the level of intimacy during middle childhood is driven through affection, respect and attributes like friendship. Whereas, the middle childhood seek intimacy as means to drive social interaction, develop relationship with friends and work towards sense of identity. They also seek intimacy on basis of friendship that is based on activities rather than honesty or self-disclosure. Although, the young adult and adolescent intimacy concept is different from of childhood and friendship it is no longer based on activities. Therefore, the intimacy with opposite sex drives the level of friendship for the young adults, because dating and romance forms the base of intimacy for adolescent and psychological development plays an important role in defining intimacy during that period. When the level of intimacy gets deep as movement from childhood through adulthood, the objective of intimacy then moves from affection towards friendship and gradually ends up getting love. Furthermore, the intimacy also moves away from the feelings which are based towards a more physical desire to be intimate during

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