Initiative vs. Guilt: Psychosocial Stage 3
Initiative v/s Guilt
- This period expands from 3 years to 5 years of age. In this period child develops rapidly in these aspects physical, intellectual and emotional. He display his self-dependent behaviour out of home which takes the form of initiative and a feeling of right and wrong begins to develop in him and he takes initiative to do work ranging from wearing clothes to taking care of his pet animals. Ifparents instead of encouraging scold him, a sense of guilt develops in him. He can be prepared by motivating intiative for adult work.
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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 )