Personality Development Reflection

Throughout this narrative review of my own development, I will apply theories of learning and personality development to my own growth, throughout my own life span, which is all that of 35 years. This will be directed with specific focus on my cognitive, emotional, and social development. Specific concepts and relevant theories discussed will be such as those of Erickson, Kohlberg, Piaget, Freud, and Vygotsky. Furthermore, these theories and concepts will explain how my personal identification systems, my addiction issues, my cultural experience with higher education, my attitudes throughout relationships, and my strategies during elementary school have promoted or impeded my optimal development. Theorist, Erik Erikson was one of many

Freeman” is, as a human being. This is an ever-changing process from birth until death. It is to be believed a System because there are so many different versions, personalities, thoughts, goals, directions, and beliefs that it becomes one System as a whole as to who I am; all of these jumbled into one unit. For example, a family consists of a mother, father, brother, and sister all jumbled into one family system. I truly believe while searching for who I was, the jumbled mess turned into role confusion. Who I truly wanted and believed to be, just, in reality, wasn’t who I was, nor could be; specially at the young age of 12. This impeded my cognitive development because I had a constant feeling of disappointment and confusion about my place in

These two activities are said to be assimilation and accommodation. Assimilation, which is a bit like generalization, is ‘interpreting new information in terms of pre-existing concepts, information or ideas,’ as described by Piaget. And accommodation is, ‘modification of pre-existing concepts in terms of new information or experience” (LUMEN). The combining of these two activities is called a cognitive equilibrium. This is when the brain has a balance between relying on previous information (small town Kalamazoo), or being open to new information, (culture of the University experience). I remember particularly taking interest in Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality, specifically the id, because it reminded me of my selfish and self-centered attitudes and how they truly impeded my emotional development within relationships (sexual or not). ‘Freud stated that the id “knows no judgements of value: no good and evil, no morality” – only the fulfillment of immediate desires. The id isc the most selfish part of our mind. It is only concerned with the immediate satisfaction of whatever want or need the body is experiencing at the moment’ (CommonLit,