Infancy development
The infancy stage of development in the human being is significantly defined by the time between birth and one year. This is when one develops various survival aspects of a human being, like motor skills, communication skills, and other aspects of maintaining and improving infant survival techniques. Based on my life autobiography in relation to psychological concept, I remember little information about my infancy development but based on the information from parents, siblings, grandparents, family photos, baby books, video records, scrapbooks, reports cards and medical records I can define some factual information about how dramatic my infancy life was. Regarding the information from various sources about my infancy development in life, my mother told me that I was born when she was eighteen years old when she was previously in a runaway home. That’s how she met my biological father. Unfortunately, my infancy life experienced various challenges due to the fact that my mother was arrested, and I had to survive. Most of my stories were narrated to me about my infancy life by my mother.
Cognitive development based on Piaget’s
Based on my infancy and childhood life, Piaget’s cognitive development stage gives an accurate picture of infancy cognitive development theoretically. According to the cognitive development stage of infants based on Piaget’s stage, this information facilitates in describing the infancy stage. Children learn through the various process involved in their life since birth. They undertake various practices and experiments to learn about the world through observations to understand everything around them as they learn the worldly life. According to Piaget’s theory, every child undergoes four stages; preoperational, sensorimotor, concrete operational, and formal. About my infancy life, which is adding up in my developmental biography, most of the sensorimotor stage aspect I have already forgotten due to my poor memory. In my infancy development, I remember the part that I sued to do thumb sucking. As a result, my mother could come after me through a profound shout and punishment to try and make me stop the habit.
Regarding the information given to me by my mother about my infancy, the life she told me that I used to suck anything within my hands, which she was trying to stop from accruing into a strong-bad habit. Based on the thematic psychological concerns of infancy life, my bad habits of sucking things within my hands or anything that I can reach are connected to the sensorimotor stage of development where many infants keep redoing a particular thing pleasures them. My grandparents reminded me of how I used to need many things when I was an infant. Though various basic actions such as listening, grasping, sucking, and looking, this is the time when I learned about the world and how to explore the world regarding my healthy surrounding. Besides, I realized how various things happen and what causes them and how to deal with some small staff to survive. However, although the infancy stage is a short period of time, it is a profound developmental stage that has an excellent growth aspect.
Trust vs. Mistrust
Based on Erikson’s development theory, trust and mistrust are other stages that can be identified in the autobiography in infancy development life. The trust and mistrust stages in life happen in infancy development between birthday and the age of eighteen months—every human being experiences trust and mistrust issues during the infancy stage. According to Erikson’s development stage, trust is the fundamental thing that every child requires to survive in this stage. During this stage, the infant develops confidence, optimism, and trust-based on their surrounding environments. The factor that leads to failure in this stage is the mistrust factor, which happens in a case where the parents do not take care of their infants, which result into developing bad mistrust aspect in their life. Every human being started in this stage based on Erikson’s developmental stage. If an individual misses a single part of the infant stages, people end up suffering later in life. The relationship between the infant and their parents determines the trust and mistrust level to create a strong bonding that may reflect every individual’s future life.
My Elementary school – Anderson Elementary Spring tx. Sedalia Elementary in Ohio. Middle Schools- spring middle school, Dueitt middle school, Splendora middle school, New Caney High school, Splendora High School. It was always rough leaving a school, but since I had left spring so often, the ones who grew up there knew I’d be back eventually. Teenage live/adolescent experiences (good and bad) Teen years were not the best. My mother kept us very sheltered- Id assumes because she didn’t want me to grow up the way that she did. (Personal level – my grandmother was raped when she was about 17 years old. She had my mother but then resented her later on in life. My grandmother was very mean to her. Did things like pulling her hair, hitting her with contact force, and with objects? She was in foster care for a year or two but never went back to my grandmother until a later date. She ran away several times. I ended up in a runaway shelter, and that’s where she met my father. Back to teen years. I was very sheltered, which made me act out and rebellious. I was always grounded and began to hate my mother and being in the house.
In regards to my life based on the infancy stage of development, including the psychological stage of Erikson’s stage is based on my life from the beginning of my life. Since I was born before my mother was arrested, I have grown around various supportive members, loving friends and family, parents, cousins, and grandmothers, among other kin. However, after my mother was arrested, I had to change my life deal strategy since my life changed completely. The trust that I had towards my mother was more compared to other people that I was left with after she was arrested. Psychologically I was mentally affected by the fact that I grew up without my mother’s care. Based on the psychological aspect of nature, Vs. Nurture is involved in an individual’s life affected by the environmental basics where one grows and develops. The life that I have gone through my infancy development stage, through interacting among various elders and the environment taught me and made me a healthy person.
Adolescents’ development
The adolescent stage of development is the stage of transition from childhood to adulthood’s phase of life. However, although the adolescent stage of development seems to be more of a turbulence stage of life, this is the time when people get engaged with the world in complexity. Typically during the adolescent stage, this is the period when people grow physically, think critically, try new things, and develop various relationships complexions. Significantly, the adolescent stage of development periods is generally based on the development as far as the transition from childhood to adulthood is conserved. Basing the psychological concept upon my autobiography, this is the stage that is experienced various challenges and learned many things about life survival techniques.
Social contact
My life has been generally experienced various issues since my mother was arrested, and I was left to deal with life on myself. I had a rough life during the adolescent stage of life, and I had my first child when I was 18 years old. However, I got engaged through various abusive life habits such as abusive relationships, drugs, and alcohol abuse. Although life experiences were tough during the adolescent stage, I managed to pull out of the habits and normalized my life. Social identity was the aspect that mostly occurred within my adolescent developmental life. The challenges and mishaps that I underwent while I was adolescent created another perspective of life.
This was the stage when I developed more intimacy with my peers; thus, I had to part with parenting and kin around my life. However, the result of all this was not much pleasing, simply because I was influenced by my peers more than I listened to my guardian in my life. My life was turning out to be more miserable, in most of the time, I could ask many rhetorical questions about my life and how ideally, I can deal with peer pressure issues to avoid there impact. Life becomes too hard as time went by since I went ahead and disobeyed my teacher’s advice about my education. Most of the time, dilemma situations could be faced since the advice from both my guardians and peers were the two things to consider.
Sincerely this was the most challenging part of my life that has ever happened. Psychologically I was mentally tortured with the adolescent stage and having difficult times to choose the best option.
Identity vs. Role Confusion
Identity and role confusion stage of development, this I the stage when children grow throughout their adolescent period based on their environment socially. This is the time when what is in the surrounding environment in terms of social environment disposition starts becoming an essential aspect of their life. When an individual is around 12-18 years of age, which is an adolescent age bracket, this is when identity and role confusion aspect impact on their life. During this stage, the teenagers try out all the methods to discover who they are and their purpose in life. In my life, I experienced this stage since I had to undergo this process by associating with my fellow peers while exploring my abilities and skills. Within the adolescent stage, the issue is, if one will be able to identify who they are, moving to the next level becomes easy. In contrast, if you fail to identify themselves, they face the aspect of confusion considerably, which may affect their life.
Psychologically, during this stage, the teenagers’ concern is generally based on how people think about them and the type of image they possess back to society. The egocentrism aspect is best expressed during this adolescent stage, which plays a significant role in the aspect of role confusion and identity. In my life, I was deeply affected during this stage since I was concerned by the fact that how people think about me matters more than me reality. The identity and role confusion significantly played a significant role in my life, in reference to my life, I had no clue about my life. Throughout my life in high school, I went through various friend groups. This is what affected me psychologically since when I started drug and alcohol abuse was a result of the bad company of friends who influenced me to join.
Early Adulthood development
The early adulthood stage of development is the busy stage part of life. This was the period when I married, and I heard to start my own family through marriage. I have four children in which two are boys and two girls; this is the time when I was serious in my life.
Intimacy and solidarity vs. isolation
Even though it is based on Erikson’s developmental stages, this is the fourth stage, and it has a significant impact on people’s lives. In my life, I have experienced these two stages; intimacy solidarity and isolation. Psychologically during this stage this when individuals are in need of companionship, express love, and even starting marital life after the election. Through psychological concepts, lack of this stage can have an advanced effect on the people throughout their lives. I am 33 years of age married and one infant. My life has been excellent and good, but since I married, the psychological problems have reduced. For example, psychologically, when she cheated on me, I was experiencing the aspect of identity and role of the confusion stage. However, my intimacy and solidarity development life pattern has been through ups and downs until I have reached 33 years of age.
Conclusion
Human life development undergoes various psychology stages to synthesize a sufficiently complex human being, who has all that it is required within the cognitive, physical, and social aspects for survival. Although psychologists have been trying to understand all the life stages of development, there is still a gap to learn more about human being psychological development. My life has been through a lot, but I have been able to conquer them. Every stage of psychological human development based in my autobiography handled every task with appropriate measures needed to tackle it. Lastly, human developmental stages based on psychology literary defined life and how to handle all life situations.