Running head: Developmental Stage of Childhood 1 Developmental Stage of Childhood 6 Developmental Stage of Childhood Name PSY605: Developmental Psychology Instructor name Date The developmental age group I chose was childhood. The ages range from three years of age to twelve years of age. In childhood, living and social conditions have merged to form a nearly more solid fabric of importance that creates consistency (Bates, 1987). Between the ages of three and five, children began to grow socially as far as expressing their emotions, interacting in social play and trying to do certain things within social play to leave an impression on friends. Cognitively, they start off using their imagination as well as start to learn basics such as colors, numbers, their name, etc. As they grow into the range of six years old to twelve years old, they began to become more lucrative and their minds began to grow. Psychosocial development occurs as children form relationships, interact with others, and understand and manage their feelings (OpenStax Psychology, 2014). In Erikson’s psychosocial theory, the development is broken down into several age ranges and stages of crisis. The stages I will focus on are Initiative vs. Guilt and Industry (also known as competence) vs. Inferiority (also known as inadequacy). Initiative vs. Guilt occurs during the preschool years, between the ages of three and five. Children within this age range began to become more assertive by making up their own games and activities as well as accomplishing tasks such as swinging, feeding themselves, or even learning to count to ten. They also face challenges such as learning to write numbers and letters. If for any reason their attempts or success in accomplishing tasks is dismissed or discouraged, guilt is then developed. The Industry vs. Inferiority stage happens within the ages of five and twelve. At this time in a child’s life impressions left on their peers seems to be what makes them feel more significant. With leaving an impression on their peers, this is basically a determination as to whether their peers boost or lower their self-esteem. Children of this age range are dealing with learning new and more complex things such as addition and subtraction, reading and comprehension. Youths in this stage have become increasingly involved with organized sports activities and the number of sports related injuries has increased dramatically (Ginsburg, 1992). They are also dealing with impressing peers to live up to them socially by doing whatever they deem is fun and cool as well as trying to have whatever their friends have. With being successful in overcoming and completing new learnings and findings as well as leaving a positive impression on their peers, the child is more than likely to be confident and competent. If the child is to fail in any of these, they will feel like a failure and start to have the feelings of inadequacy. This tends to lead to antisocial behavior as ...