Integrity vs. Despair in Psychosocial Development

Integrity v/s Despair

• This stage is called post adulthood and is regarded as the period of more than 65 years. In this period the individual lives with what he has achieved in whole life. Ideally the individual achieves completeness. In completeness acceptance of limitations of life, accepting oneself as a part of previous stages, feeling of wisdom of various stages and the ultimate perfection of all the previous stages are included. Opposite to it the individual feels despaired in which he repents for what was done and what was not done, feeling of going towards death and hatred for himself appear. Main terms : Nurture, Heredity Psychoanalysis, Attitude, Defence Mechanisms, Repression, Projection, Reaction formation, Mutation Displacement, Introjection.

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Important Points of Human Development :- 

1. Development means proceeding towards more maturity which is not quantitatively measurable but in qualitative change.
2. Development in continuous, systematic and sequential.
3. In each cell of parents there are 23 chromosoms and these constitute 23 pairs.
4. Each choromosom has many genes and each gene determines one or the other trait or characteristic.
5. Heredity provides potentialities to develop. These potentialities develop in environment.
6. 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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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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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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