Intimacy vs. Isolation: Psychosocial Stage 6
Intimacy v/s Isolation
- This stage covers the period starting from 18 years of age and ending at the age of 35 years. Ifa young man fears that he cannot identity with others he will, in future, advances towards isolation. Intimacy goes beyond the sexual. Intimacy is such a capacity which develops real and mature psycho-social aspect, in which making friends and without losing one’s own identity taking care of others are included. In the absence of intimacy feeling of isolation may appear. The main basis of intimacy is love (mutual devotion to each other). One aspect of intimacy is the we feeling. In the case of isolation the relations become formal, indifferent and hollow.
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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 )