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My reflection will be based on Erik Erikson 's theory on Psychosocial
Stages. Erikson 's 8 stages of psychosocial. His theories are based on
age and your maturity. All the stages describe the growth of your child
becoming more dependent and exploring more. Erikson describes the
develop stages and how it is different from Freud 's theory on
personality. The first five theories Erikson had concluded was on the
the growth of your child . Developing trust , identity and preparing for
the future.Erickson theory reflects on my life in many ways . His theory
on Trust vs. Mistrust contains the trust of your infant and how you show
your child that you are trusting. I really can’t reflect on this first stage
because it 's the first stage of infancy …show more content…
The identity stage starts at twelve and ends around eighteen. This
stage is the adaptation of becoming an adult . Your child is adapting
through different changes like puberty , transferring from middle school
to high school and more. Your child is growing into the person you lead
them to be , your child is starting to find out what they want to be in
life. The stage identity is actually the stage i’m growing into. I am
learning the stages of being an adult and also been through puberty.
The learning of my childhood turn me to the person I am. The stages of
Identity is not just finding what you want to be but finding who you are.
After , finding who you are you have to accept it be proud into the
person you grew up to …show more content…
Being motivated as a baby would lead you into a good life. Having a
parent that loves and care for you also is a key . If you didn’t follow
some stages Erikson’s had stated he stated that you might be
surrounded by negativity . The people who are involved and were born
into different stages might have a trouble in life . In infancy ages you
should be surrounded by positive and nothing more than that . A child
should not go through anything that it 's parent is going through
because it might excel
The Concrete Operational Stage of Cognitive
Development
The concrete operational stage is the third stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development. This
period spans the time of middle childhood—it begins around age 7 and continues until
approximately age 11—and is characterized by the development of logical thought. 1

Thinking still tends to be very concrete, but children become much more logical and
sophisticated in their thinking during this stage of development.While this is an important stage
in and of itself, it also serves as an important transition between earlier stages of development
and the coming stage where kids will learn how to think more abstractly and
hypothetically.Important things that happen in the concrete operational stage include a great
understanding of logic, reversibility, and conservation. Children also become less egocentric
during this stage.Kids at this age become more logical about concrete and specific things, but

Logic in the Concrete

they still struggle with abstract ideas.

Operational StagePiaget determined that children in the concrete

operational stage were fairly good at the use of inductive logic (inductive reasoning). 2 Inductive
logic involves going from a specific experience to a general principle.An example of inductive
logic would be noticing that every time you are around a cat, you have itchy eyes, a runny nose,
and a swollen throat. You might then reason from that experience that you are allergic to
cats.Formal operational stage, stage of human cognitive development,
typically beginning around age 11 or 12, characterized by the
emergence of logical thinking processes, particularly the ability to
understand theories and abstract ideas and predict possible outcomes
of hypothetical problems.On the other hand, children at this age have difficulty using
deductive logic, which involves using a general principle to determine the outcome of a specific
event. For example, a child might learn that A=B, and B=C, but might still struggle to
understand that A=C.

Reversibility in the Concrete

Operational StageOne important development in this stage is an
understanding of reversibility or awareness that actions can be reversed.3 An example of this is
being able to reverse the order of relationships between mental categories.An example of
reversibility is that a child might be able to recognize that his or her dog is a Labrador, that a
Labrador is a dog, and that a dog is an animal.Reversibility is an important step toward more
advanced thinking, although at this stage it only applies to concrete situations.
Conservation in the Concrete
Operational StageAnother key development at this stage is the
understanding that when something changes in shape or appearance it is still the same, a concept
known as conservation.3Kids at this stage understand that if you break a candy bar up into
smaller pieces it is still the same amount as when the candy was whole. This is a contrast to
younger children who often believe that pouring the same amount of liquid into two cups means
that there is more. For example, imagine that you have two candy bars of the exact same size.
You break one candy bar up into two equally sized pieces and the other candy bar up into four
smaller but equally sized sections.A child who is in the concrete operational stage will
understand that both candy bars are still the same amount, whereas a younger child will believe
that the candy bar that has more pieces is larger than the one with only two pieces.One of the key
characteristics of the concrete-operational stage is the ability to focus on many parts of a
problem.While kids in the preoperational stage of development tend to focus on just one aspect
of a situation or problem, those in the concrete operational stage are able to engage in what is
known as "decentration." They are able to concentrate on many aspects of a situation at the same
time, which plays a critical role in the understanding of conservation.

Egocentrism in the Concrete

Operational Stage
The concrete operational stage is also marked by decreases in egocentrism. While children in the
preceding stage of development (the preoperational stage) struggle to take the perspective of
others, kids in the concrete stage are able to think about things the way that others see them.In
Piaget's Three-Mountain Task, for example, children in the concrete operational stage can
describe how a mountain scene would look to an observer seated opposite them.4In other words,
kids are not only able to start thinking about how other people view and experience the world,
they even start to use this type of information when making decisions or solving problems. While
kids at earlier stages of development are egocentric, those in the concrete operational stage
become more socio-centric.In other words, they are able to understand that other people have
their own thoughts. Kids at this point are aware that other people have unique perspectives, but

they might not yet be able to guess exactly how or what that other person is experiencing. A
Word FromVerywellThis stage of cognitive development also
serves as an important transition between the preoperational and formal operational stages. 1 The
growing ability to mentally manipulate information and think about the thoughts of others will
play a critical role in the formal operational stage of development when logic and abstract
thought become critical.
From the module on Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development, I realized that …
An understanding of Piaget stages of cognitive development can give us a better
understanding of how we learn and how we grow. The four stages are the
sensorimotor stage, the preoperational stage, the concrete operational stage, and the
formal operational stage. We experience each of these stages as a natural part before
progressing to more abstract thought. The first two stages occur when an infant& r
motoskills are developing and they start to observe their surroundings in order to
learn what is happening. The preoperational stage occurs between the ages of 2 and
7, it is when children are beginning to use language. During this time, the child’s
cognition is not yet organized in a concrete fashion. Children at this age are
egocentric and unable to think about others point of views. The formal operational
stage occurs