Industry vs. Inferiority Stage of Development
Industry v/s Inferiority
- This period begins at the age of 6 years and ends at the age of 12 years. The child engages his energy in emproving himself and winning objects and other people. He wants to enter the wide world of knowledge and actions. It means ‘age of industry’ begins in this period. Child is easily prepared to learn and make planning in this period. Ifparents and teachers discourage him to perform an act, they can create sense of inferiority in him. On the other hand if industry is devaloped, he can adjust himself well in the world. Whatever a child do he wants to achieve mastery over that. If the child still remains a child it will take him towards developing inferiority.
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Important Points of Human Development :-
- Development means proceeding towards more maturity which is not quantitatively measurable but in qualitative change.
- Development in continuous, systematic and sequential.
- In each cell of parents there are 23 chromosoms and these constitute 23 pairs.
- Each choromosom has many genes and each gene determines one or the other trait or characteristic.
- Heredity provides potentialities to develop. These potentialities develop in environment.
- Sigmund Freud propounded psychoanalytic theory and Erikson propounded Psycho social theory which describe the stages of development from birth to adulthood.
Human Development Questions And Answers
1. What is the meaning of heredity?
(A) Sperm and ovam
(B) Chromosomes and genes
(C) Mitosis and Meiosis
(D) DNA and RNA
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Answer :- ( B )
2. Which of the following theory has been propounded by Freud?
(A) Cognitive theory
(B) Psycho-social theory
(C) Stimulus-response theory
(D) Psycho analytic theory
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Answer :- ( D )
3. Who out of the following has propounded psycho-social theory?
(A) Sigmund freud
(B) Erik Erikson
(C) E.B. Hurlock
(D) Not any of these
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Answer :- ( B )