As I was watching Joan Erikson’s “On Old Age” videos, I could not help but notice how intelligent as well as how articulate she was, she had a very large vocabulary. The reason this stood out to me is because, we literally just learned, in chapter 7 of our textbooks, that as we age we use simpler and fewer words. Our textbook says that “the changes in memory contribute in part to age-related losses in language.” (Whitbourne & Whitbourne, 2011) So when I started watching the first video, I expected her to use simpler and fewer words. Joan had a very strong vocabulary when she spoke, although, I did notice that she would repeat some things and she also would slow down when trying to recall things, but overall she seemed to be very intelligent. …show more content…
She did not associate someone's ability or inability to speak with their current state of mental activity. I understand that her husband was having issues communicating which is probably why she felt so strongly about it, but infants do not speak because they do not know how to speak because they have not learned how to speak yet. An older adult at some point was capable of speaking so when they get to a point where they are unable to use language then there it is clearly linked to their mental activity. However, I do agree that touch is a well-known way to soothe someone. We soothe infants when they are sad by holding them. When an older adult has lost the ability to speak, they are vulnerable so if we carefully observe their body language rather than just give up on them and do nothing. If it seems appropriate a simple pat on the back or a hug may make this person easier to communicate with in another way. I was not surprised with Joan Erikson's involvement in her husband's work. When you research the Erikson’s, Erik thought very highly of his wife and they shared the same beliefs. She was the main collaborator in Erikson’s theories. They wrote each stage as they were experiencing it until Joan’s husband died. She wrote the 9th stage as she was experiencing loss of her health and
The piece “The Old Man Isn 't There Anymore” by Kellie Schmitt is a passage showing that nobody really knows any other culture. In the passage Schmitt response to not seeing the old man anymore is to call the cleaning-lady to see what has happened to him and why all the neighbors were sobbing. “The old man isn 't there anymore” she replied, which I guessed it was her baby Chinese way of telling me he died” (Schmitt 107). Ceremonies can be very informational about the family member and their traditions, people should get more information about who the ceremony is for. The piece uses description, style, and support through out.
In the memoir The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion narrates her personal struggle of coping the realization of John being dead and will never resurrect to reunite with Joan. Joan exerts many sorrowful expressions as medical information and the vortex effects instill a sense of anticipation that John will soon come back. Consequently, Didion’s hopefulness opaques her true identity as she still associates herself as a married woman, when in reality, she needs to move on from John to reestablish her extroverted personality to the world once again. On the contrary, Didion comes to a consensus that John’s death was inevitable, Joan starts to ponder about her future with the exclusion of John. With Joan grieving
This article is a good example of how life would be like for a foreigner in a different country. Because the author talks about the Chinese culture, living space and funeral. The author uses a humorous tone to talk about her living in China. This story has great balance between humor and emotions. “The Old Man Isn’t There Anymore”, by Kellie Schmitt tells a beautiful tale of her experience of life in China.
Erik Erikson's theory of psychosocial development is one of the best-known theories of personality in psychology. Much like Sigmund Freud, Erikson believed that personality develops in a series of stages. Unlike Freud's theory of psychosexual stages, Erikson's theory describes the impact of social experience across the whole lifespan (http://psychology.about.com). The stages I noticed the most during the movie were stage 5, Identity vs. Confusion, and stage 6, Intimacy vs.
“ By the late 1930s, he had outlined four developmental stages-infancy (oral, anal, genital), latency, puberty, and adult heterosexual adjustment.”(Capps, 2004) Erikson wanted to build on Freud's early psychosexual stages by adding psychosocial stages that covered the full life cycle. In Erikson's opinion Shakespeare had risen above Freud in developmental matters because Shakespeare had covered development from infancy till death and he also believed that Shakespeare's stages were represented in social-ethical terms rather than sexual. Erikson wanted to go beyond Freud and Shakespeare in the developmental process. Although without Freuds model of psychosexual stages Erik Erikson believed that he would never have been able to create his own life cycle schema. With the addition of the eighth stage Erik Eriksons original life cycle work was taking on creative new dimensions. Erikson himself thought that he was only beginning to get a sense of the vast complexity of human life and it upset him when people attempted to describe human life in general limited terms. In Eriksons opinion human life was complex and had no limits. In Eriksons life cycle schema he insisted that all stages of development are present from birth and remain thoughout an individuals life time. It was not very clear
In the 1950s, after studying Freud’s work, Erik Erikson developed his theories. Instead of Freud’s psychosexual stages, Erikson developed psychosocial stages. Erikson expanded on Freud’s work, and added that not only were the first years of development important, but that development continued through to early adulthood and
We then move onto the next stage bringing along the knowledge of the stage before and influencing the way that we carry ourselves. Erikson’s stages of personality development are different than Freud’s because one is social and the other is sexual. Erikson believed that the stages were connected to socialization and to move on from one stage to the next you had to pass the last stage. In Freud’s work he believed it had to do with sexualization and each stage had something to do with a sexual feeling. Both Erikson and Freud believed in the imperatives of the unconscious mind as part of the development (Education Portal,2014). I can identify more with Erikson’s stages for my life and can apply it to the lives of my children better than that of Freud’s. We thrive best on routine and that affects the outcome for each stage. We have not gotten stuck in any one stage and have continued to develop along the timeline set forth by Erikson. We all get along with others and have easy going attitudes and none of us feel that we are better than anyone else. We are all
Erikson was a strong believer that what Freud was saying was correct and believed that there were in fact 8 stages that an average individual passes throughout their lives.
Erik Erikson’s eight Stages of man, is also known as the eight stages of psychosocial development. He promotes social interactions as a motivation to personality development. Erickson studied stages from the beginning of the life cycle to the later stages of life. Erickson was trained under the famous Sigmund Freud. His belief was that it wasn’t only sex that motivated personality development. Social interaction and a growing sense of competence is the key to it all. Since his beliefs differed from the beliefs of Freud, Erikson quickly began to work on his own. Erickson has focused on many different eras of psychological development.
Erikson’s theory has a total of eight different stages. I believe Erikson had a great idea and was correct in his theory and thoughts. His stages and repercussions of each stage can be evident in my life as well as others in my life. Erikson’s first stage is about trust and mistrust in the first year of life. In my first year of life my family was very present. There does not go a week where my family does not recount about that first year and different silly or happy stories, I do not know of first hand, but can tell you without hesitation. Being that I was the first child of my parents, so as a result my parents dedicated every day to me and to support us. On my mother 's side I was the first grandchild to be born. As a result there was always
Erikson’s psychosocial theory is an eight stage theory on human psychological development. Erikson broke this theory of eight stages into groups by age. They are labeled as crisis stages and a person cannot move on from one stage to the next stage until the crisis is
Knapton, S 2014, ‘Brains of elderly slow because they know so much’ Telegraph Media Group, published in the Journal of Topics in Cognitive Science, viewed on the 22nd of march 2014
Erikson was a developmental psychologist and he was very well known at the time of his psychosocial development among human beings. Erikson developed eight stages that show growth across a lifespan in every human being. Each of the stages that Erickson developed, build on one another and after every successful stage the outcome is called “virtue”. Erikson believed that difficulty on one stage can have a result later on in life. There is one main contradiction between Erikson and Freud which is Freud was an ID psychologist, Erikson was an ego psychologist. He emphasized the role of culture and society and the conflicts that can take place within the ego itself, whereas Freud accentuate the conflict between the ID and the superego. (McLeod, S. A. (2013). Erik Erikson) The eight psychosocial development stages that Erikson developed are; trust vs. mistrust, autonomy vs. shame/doubt, initiative vs. guilt, industry vs. inferiority, identity vs. role confusion, intimacy vs. isolation, generativity vs. stagnation, and integrity vs. despair.
The identity stage, in Erikson’s theory, precedes the intimacy stage so there are many similarities and connections between the two. The author will analyze identity and intimacy, which are two of the eight stages in Erikson 's theory that people normally go through in life.
Erik Erikson is known for expanding Freud’s ideas of psychoanalytic stages and developed a theory of his own. Erikson developed the psychosocial development theory consisting of eight stages across the entire lifespan. His theory focuses on social interaction and conflicts that arise during these different