The_Stages_Children_Go_Through_To_Determine_Their_Personalit

The Stages Children Go Through To Determine Their Personalities Children are the eyes to the future. How a child’s life is formed determines how our future is shaped. Sigmund Freud laid down the basic foundation of a person’s personality. He said that person ’s personality is formed by the time they reach the age of five. Freud said that a child’s early experiences determines their adult personalities. He then defined each stage that a child goes through. Freud called it the psychosexual development stages. These are the stages that are “ successive, instinctive patterns of associating pleasure with stimulation of specific bodily areas at different times in life.” ( Zimbardo Pg. 386) These five stages deal with how children deal with their sexual urges. The stages change and become more intense as a child gets older. If a child doesn’t fully satisfy his needs a any stage they can become fixated to the needs of that stage. Fixation occurs when a child faces a problem growing from stage to stage. Fixation can greatly affect our personalities when we become adults. When a child become fixated they become dependent to the emotional urges of the stage. Each stage has different effects. The first stage children go through is the oral stage. stage, children, through, fixation, during, child, become, stages, personality, sexual, go, freud, deal, adult, urges, said, problems, occurs, future, develop, zimbardo, start, period, needs, mouth, learn, genitals, formed, first, different, called, adults, years