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Developmental Milestones
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Define and explain of overcoming the crisis of Generativity versus Stagnation. Give an example and explain any societal implication that can impact either generativity or stagnation.
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21 hours ago
Jessica Vargas
RE: Developmental Milestones
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Hi all,
Generatively versus stagnation is the seventh stage of Erik Erikson's theory of psychosocial development. This stage occurs during the ages of approximately forty years of age to sixty five. It is extremely important that parents have positive roles and relationships with children and their community. Adults in this stage strive to create a naturing environments with their children that contribute to a positive bond with them. Adults in this stage also need to contribute positive impacts to society. The word generatively refers to "making your mark" by creating accomplishments that will and can make the world a better and safer place. The word Stagnation is when one does not find a way to contribute, unable to put in a change. This stage is about commitments to oneself and other people, developing strong intimate relationships with friends and family members, being able to mentor those within the community. For example, a mother who has kids enrolled in a school district, finds a parent club that takes place at night where parents discuss involvement activities and even fund raisers for their kids that will benefit their future at that school and community. This club allows parents to interact with one another as well as the kids being able to come together within the community too.
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Response to Jessica here: DO YOU AGREE OR DISAGREE WITH HER, WHAT’S YOUR OPINION?
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8 hours ago
Jennifer Montero
RE: Developmental Milestones
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Generativity, one can be able to define this term just by a dividing the the term into the two words, generate and ivity. Ivity being a suffix that stands for "product"; the product of being generative. Generativity is the action of being able to generate new ideas, new creations, new beings, etc in order to contribute to the well being of the current and future world to be. This can be done by any individual who aspires to make the world better for those who are coming along. It can be a parent who strives to make sure their child has a better future by doing the things they were not able to do such as going to college. It can be done by someone ordinary like me who does things like beach cleanups to assure a better environment for sea creatures or even just carpooling to eliminate the amount of green house gases being emitted into the atmosphere. Someone who exerts themselves in being able to generate new contributions to our world will experience self growth and the growth of others. Any individual can strive for generativity in their own way as long it not only benefits them but those around them and the future generations.
On the opposite end, the word stagnation has a more of a uncooperative definition. It is defined as the failure of not being able to contribute to the world or even your own society. It is placing ones own concerns beyond anything else and not feeling the need to stimulate growth within. An example of stagnation could be career stagnation. With new inventions and more innovative techniques to improve the work place, their may be new workers that come in and are already familiar with these techniques, and older worker may feel jealous, avoidant, and withdrawn. Instead of learning with the new workers and trying to improve their skills, they'll be putting themselves in a position where their superior has to demote them.
With all that being said, humans should try to make the world a better place, not only for themselves but for those who come along. Allow for new perspectives to join and be acceptant of them. We are all here for a reason, a small mark in the world is better than no mark at all.
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2 hours ago
AnnMarie Christie
RE: Developmental Milestones
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The psychosocial crisis of generativity vs. stagnation is one of Erikson’s theory of development that takes place during middle adulthood. During this stage adult focus on life condition that can contribute to positive life events and changes that will benefit the next generation. This time in life is about focusing on accomplishments and things that will create a better society. Some of these things can include investing in other people, mentoring, parenting with strong values nurturing or caring for others and making life changing differences that will impact the world in a positive way. Giving back to others or investing in someone’s life is a good contribution to society. It’s important for adults to commit to making changes to life conditions that will enhance future generations. When someone falls short of their expectations they start thinking of life changes and compare reality to their expectation and start asking themselves what they can work toward to fulfill their expectations. For some, being a full time parent is investing in the future, or working in the medical field or teaching people skills for the future is also a huge investment which would result in generativity. Stagnation is when someone considers themselves a failure to society. Individuals that have no drive to be productive, not providing anything towards society. They are disconnected with society and fail to make any adjustment. They have no plans for the future and they lack developmental growth and psychological movement, which means they are not moving forward in the world or in their thinking. They are completely closed off from society. Life is always moving and if you do not move with it you will be in stagnation. Regarding generativity you also need to focus on yourself because people often don’t have time for their own self care and I think it is very important because it can help that person stay focused on adjustments in their daily lives that can be made in order for them to contribute to society in a valuable manner.
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DISSUSSION # 2 ( respond only to classmates)
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Discuss two memorable relationships in terms of Sternberg’s Theory of Love. Identify two of Steinberg’s forms and explain how they relate to your relationships. Provide examples.
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Wenmi Severino
RE: Physical Attraction/Love
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In the book "Adolescence and emerging adulthood" Arnett explains Sternberg’s Theory of Love. The three components of love can be composed of intimacy, passion or commitment. These three qualities of love are combined into seven different forms Friendship, Infatuation, Empty Love, Romantic Love, Companionate Love, Fatuous Love and Consummate Love. I would like to Identify two of Steinberg’s forms of love since they are those that are related to the relationship that I have with my husband. Companionate love combines intimacy and commitment but without passion. In the other hand, consummate love is combined intimacy, commitment and passion. Companionate love and consummate love are related to my relationships. Thank God I have been married for ten years with my husband. We met in a Jersey City, high school. I have been with him since I was 17 years old. When we married, I was 20 years old. He is with whom I share three children. I consider that at the moment, we share all three aspects of love, but sometimes we share intimacy and commitment. We are very talkative with each other, and many times I consider him as my best friend. Our relationship was complicated as a teenager; we were full of fear and insecurities. We were not sure about making a move to the commitment, and we need counselling to get through it. Today I understand that our mental capacity was limited and that our emotions were out of control. We are both Dominican and evangelical, which helps us to reduce marriage tension since we come from the same culture.
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7 hours ago
Christine Roberts
RE: Physical Attraction/Love
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I believe that I have only experienced consummate love once. This relationship involved passion, intimacy, and commitment for about 4 years. In many ways this was “ideal.” The level of passion and intimacy was something that most people strive for in a healthy long term and committed relationship. For most of the 4 years, the relationship was passionate. However, even though we had the three qualities that Steinberg claimed are fundamental, we did not work out. He was not the kindest verbally or mentally to me. As I grew older, I realized I deserved much better treatment and needed to grow on my own. So although I agree that passion, intimacy, and commitment are fundamental in a successful relationship, there are other factors to whether or not a relationship will last and be successful.
I also experienced a more recent relationship that lasted about 2 years. The relationship would mainly fall under the category of “Liking.” I deeply cared about this person and loved them, however I realized that I viewed them more as a best friend. We had some level of intimacy, however I did not feel passion towards him and did not want to be committed to him. I realized that I needed to remove myself from the relationship because if I am going to put the time and effort into someone, I want it to be someone I have passion towards and fully want to be committed to. The relationship had to be ended when he wanted these things from me, however I did not want them from him or envision myself potentially feeling these things.
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7 hours ago
Isabel Desanno
RE: Physical Attraction/Love
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Sternberg's theory of love describes several different types of love which combine three qualities: passion, intimacy, and commitment. Passion is physical attraction and sexual desire; it could be described as both emotional and physical. The closeness between two people is intimacy; this is also the mutual understanding and support that occurs between people. Commitment is the promise to stay with or love someone over a long period of time; this is what is necessary in order for relationships to last.
Of the seven different forms of love, companionate love and liking are the only two that are really present in my life. I'm not in a relationship, so these things represent the relationships I have with my parents and friends. I would say that the "liking" type of love is relevant to the new friendships I have formed since moving to college: my roommate, teammates, and peers in classes that I have in person. I do not know any of these people very well yet, but I would consider them to be my friends. I communicate with my teammates on a daily basis, and we do workouts and other activities together regularly. However, I do not know yet if these friendships are going to be lasting. I've only known these people for a few weeks, so it is hard to say there is any sense of "commitment."
As for companionate love, the clearest example I can think of is the relationship I have with my best friend. We are the same age; we graduated high school together, but now go to college over 1,500 miles apart. The friendship that we have has lasted for around five years now; it's the kind of friendship where we might go for a few days without talking, but we can still pick back up right where we left off. We call each other, "our person," because even when we haven't been the closest, we know that we are always there for one another. We talk and FaceTime almost every day, and we also write letters. There are intimacy and commitment within our relationship; I think by now we have been through so much together that she is just stuck with me at this point.
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Elsie Bernier
RE: Physical Attraction/Love
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A lot of us may think physical appearance or emotional attraction is what makes us fall in love with someone, however falling in love is far more complicated than that. According to the video, fallen in love and commit is very difficult because of the chemical reactions that can influence the level of connections that we have with someone. All of us would want to see the love and the connection that we have with our partner last forever, after watching the video, I realize even the most three important components of Sternberg's theory of love which are, passionate, intimacy and commitment which also combine into seven other types of friendship, the fact that passion and intimacy fluctuate with age, the only component that can be saved in a relationship is commitment if someone truly wants to be with you for life.
Love is something that brings life to any dead situations. We all feel alive and happy when we are in love, the deep connection that we have with another person is very important to our wellbeing, and it makes us feel invincible by just knowing that we have someone that cares for us.
From what I experienced, my relationship fell under possessive love and intimacy. I don't know which category possessive love is. No commitment when you have been cheated on.
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Fany Herrera
RE: Physical Attraction/Love
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In Sternberg's theory of love, there are 3 elements in a relationship: intimacy, passion, and commitment.
The first relationship I will be describing is infatuated which had only passion. There was no intimacy because I didn't know him at a deep level. It was a "long term" relationship, so it was mostly online. There was no commitment because we were very young and anything long term was never thought through considering we were only 14. Within, time the love disappeared because we both realized how different we are and how it was
The second relationship is a combination of all 3 elements: consummate love. I and my current boyfriend met in high school. But in high school, we started off as best friends and we were never serious through high school because we did not think about the long term, until recently. We officially started dating last year and our relationship and it's like has all three elements. My boyfriend is the type of person to overthink 10 years, 20 years later in the future. However, I am in the one that keeps him present.
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