Theories Of Erick Erikson's Psychosocial Theory Of Development

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PRESCHOOL
In Preschool years, ages three to five years old. Also, preschool is an early childhood program in which children combine learning with play in a program run by professionally trained adults. These programs are known by other names, including child care, day care, and nursery school. Children engages to long period of playing and somehow will have opportunities to learn in many different ways. This includes active learning such as play-based and enquiry-based approaches. They make decisions, solve problems, develop thinking skills, collaborate, communicate and develop a positive sense of self. According to theory of Erick Erikson on Psychosocial Theory of Development, Preschool stage of development is the play age. Erikson believed …show more content…

In addition to identify with their parents, preschool-age children are developing locomotion, language skills, curiosity, imagination, and the ability to set goals. Initiative versus guilt explains that children begin to move around more easily and vigorously and as their genital interest awakens, they adopt an intrusive head-on mode of approaching the world. Although they begin to adopt initiative in their selection and pursuit to set goals. The conflict between initiative and guilt becomes the dominant psychosocial crisis of the play age. The challenge of this stage must engage to their surrounding including people outside the family. On the other part the Failure of this stage experience guilt at failing to meet the expectations of the parent and other. Also according to Jean Piaget’s on Cognitive theory at his Preoperational stage, memory or remembering events/objects start at the same time as language. But during this stage, children have not yet developed logical thinking necessary to do specific operations. Also in his theory include that children use only semiotic thinking (using signs and symbols in language). And this stage begin to understand the relationship between an object and the word that represents it quickly discover the …show more content…

Also in pre-operational children learn by imitating, investigating, asking questions, comparing and classifying the things around them. Piaget emphasized the role of symbolic play in emotional and social as well as cognitive development of children. In addition, in this area were the children is start building or adapting their environment in schooling and meeting other people and making friends with each other by sharing toys and playing games. Since they were starting to learn in this stage were the children is always asking question to start their conversation were the adults is explaining to

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