PSYCHOLOGY ASSIGNMENT 1

TERM 3
BY MADHAV GOYAL

Goal - We have learned numerous development theories as students, and this

project demands us to trace our developmental stages and explain them using the
theories we have learned. We must test our capacity to recognize and classify major
physical, cognitive, emotional, and moral milestones using current theories.
CONTENTS

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1 Introduction 3

2 Piaget’s Theory 4-5

3 Erik Erikson Stages of 6-7

Psychological Development
Theory
INTRODUCTION
Human development is a subfield of psychology that analyses and attempts to
improve the factors that enable individuals to live healthy and satisfying lives. It is a
multidisciplinary study of the psychological, biological, and societal elements that
influence persons from childhood through maturity. This discipline seeks to
comprehend the many changes that persons and their relationships go through as
they learn and evolve.

The 2 theories that I have taken into consideration are –

 Piaget Theory
 Erik Erikson Stages of Psychological Development Theory
Piaget Theory
The first theory that I am relating to is Piaget’s theory. According to Jean Piaget's
theory of cognitive development, children progress through four stages of mental
development. His idea seeks to comprehend not just how children gain information,
but also the essence of intelligence. Piaget's phases are as follows:

 Sensorimotor stage: from infancy to 2 years

 Preoperational stage ages 2–7
 Concrete operational stage: ages 7–11
 Ages 12 and above for the formal operating stage

We all have moved through a specific series of stages that made us who we today
are. I was a very notorious type of child in my childhood. I never used to eat easily. I
remember my father telling me stories about my childhood that they used to hold my
hands and legs open my mouth forcefully and then feed me anything. The first word
that I said was ‘Papa’ at the age of 11 months while I first walked when I was of 9
months. My nickname in my childhood was a monkey. I was the kind of child who
never used to sit and let my parents rest. I was always either playing with something
or climbing the trees in my garden or just running up and down stairs. I started going
to school at the age of 3 years. I was among the top students in school and also a
boy with whom every girl had a crush(though not anymore). I had the dream to
become a pilot in my childhood. Then from pilot to scientist and from scientist to
Charted Accountant and now, I am doing BBA-MBA from DoMS NALSAR. My
dreams used to change very often. It’s like now I see a movie based on something
and I wanted to become one of those actors from the movie. I have always been a
momma’s boy. I was that kind of child who just sticks to his mom holding her and
always being with her. Though physically I somewhat look like my but otherwise I
have always been more attached to my mother. I consider the age 7 to 12 as the
most crucial stage as this was the time when I got to learn maximum things about
this world, I made a lot of friends including the bad and the goods ones not knowing
the difference and this is the age where maximum kids get spoiled including me. At
this age, I got to learn from my friends that there is something known as ‘sex’ and
something called ‘porn’. My parents were strict so I never got into all this stuff but I
have seen my friends discuss these things in school. At this stage, I gained 80
percent of my height. I still remember standing in the last position in my assembly
hall, the reason being that I was the tallest in my class. The thing I regret is that this
is the stage where I could have easily developed any hobby that I never did. The
thing I regret more is that I had a good height and could have easily pursued any
sports without any difficulty but unfortunately have always been a back-bencher in
my school.
Erik Erikson Stages of Psychological Development
Theory

The second theory that I will be relating to is the Erik Erikson Stages of
Psychological Development Theory. According to the notion, completing each step
successfully leads to a healthy personality and the development of basic values.
Basic virtues are distinguishing characteristics that the ego might employ to address
later crises. Failure to complete a stage effectively can result in a diminished
capacity to complete subsequent stages and, as a result, a more unhealthy
personality and sense of self. These stages, on the other hand, can be completed at
a later date.

I have been a very shy person straight from the beginning. I never used to talk to
girls and even boys and preferred mostly to stay introverted. I grew up to be a
socially awkward person and then covid acted as icing on the cake. At the age of 14
puberty hit me and a lot of pimples started popping up on my face. This made the
condition even worse as it is I used to talk less and pimples even lowered my
confidence. I used to be all alone in my school. Though I made friends but none with
whom I could have said that I had a strong bond. Even at family functions, I used to
stay only with my mother. Till the age I was under my mom I used to be quite
efficient(till my 7th grade) but as I started getting freedom from my parents I became
less efficient which was visible through my scores in school. The first time that I
failed in a subject in my school was in 7th grade itself. I still remember the subject
was science and I got 7 out of 25. Even though I could sense that I have started
procrastinating a lot but the peer pressure never let me focus on myself. I was either
playing games or watching as I found myself to lack a bit among friends as the only
thing they used to talk about are the games and the different television cartoons. I
always had this feeling of making friends and getting known among them and maybe
for this reason I went a bit too far. I first made a friend in my 11 th class whom I
actually can call my real friend. 11th class was a type of an eye-opener for me as
most of the people whom I used to consider my friend left me and I made those
uncool people the nerd ones my friends. That time I got a hike in my marks and even
improved my personality. Another reason that I consider to have a much more
mature personality is because of my girlfriend. I got to learn a lot after I met her and
now I see myself as a much better person, way more mature with a better
personality. I always underestimated myself but after talking to her I feel much better
and also somewhat realized my real worth maybe because she was the first person
other than my family who never demotivated me and also loved me.