Sociology 2233 Lecture 14: Understanding Epigenetic Development - Part 2
25 Jan 2017
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Normative ethical: he specifies and makes ought claims about an endpoint of human. Understanding epigenetic development: the building blocks of epigenesis. Erikson"s psychosocial theory of human/ego/epigenetic development is: normative ethical. An acorn has the potential to become a tree, but it requires the environment to call upon it in order for its potential to be actualized. You can"t skip the steps required to grow a tree (time of special ascendancy) According to erikson, epigenetic development is contingent on the (cid:498)proper(cid:499) coordination of developmentally unique phase-specific: physical (biological) adaptiveness, cognitive (psychological) readiness, salient phase-specific sociocultural influences and their associated interactive requirements and structural obstacles. At phase 5, erikson talks about physical adaptiveness in terms of new physical strengths. Cognitive theory: human development is about the development of cognitive operations. Function the strength of the ego"s synthetic and exectuive functions executive functions of ego"s synthetic. Virtue culmination of ego syntonic/positive resolution of a phase.
