Specific Phobias

For my research topic I chose to write about Specific Phobias and their effects on personality development in early childhood. The reason for this topic is that I have a major interest in cognition along with personality development in early childhood. I am especially interested in finding out how factors such as specific phobias can ultimately affect a person in the course of their life. . I hope to find a positive or a negative connection between phobias and personality. Along with this I want to find out if there is truly a correlation between the two subjects so that we may have a better understanding of personality development. I believe that if we can gain a more detailed explanation and understanding on personalities then there is potential

Piaget “became intrigued with the reasons children gave for their wrong answers to the questions that required logical thinking. He believed that these incorrect answers revealed important differences between the thinking of adults and children” (McLeod, 2015). Dr. Klaczynski who is a Professor at the University of Northern Colorado and whose primary focus is developmental psychology has stated in a lecture of his that Jean Piaget is known as one most influential researchers in the field of developmental psychology. He explained that this is, because before Piaget, it was commonly believed and accepted in the field of Psychology that children were simply “less competent thinkers” (Klaczynski, 2016) as compared to adults. Through Piaget’s numerous studies he was able to come to the conclusion that children were not “less competent thinkers” but, rather they had a whole different way of thinking as compared to

The fact that the stages are universal means that there is no limit to who goes through the stages which means that anyone of any race, gender, background, or even ability go through these stages in the same order. There are only two factors that can affect this which is in the case of death where a person can no longer proceed for obvious reasons or the amount of time that a person goes through a stage. It is entirely possible for a person to take longer or to go through a stage faster than a person in their cohort. Through countless studies of these stages, cognitive development was shown be based on biological factors and would thus change as the child gained experience. The stages of development will be described based on what I learned in my Human Development class taught by Dr. Paul Klaczynski and information retrieved from Saul McLeod’s article on Piaget’s theory of cognitive