Erikson redeveloped Freud's theory with a new sociological view so to include a life-span psychosocial dimension and introduced an eight stage model of psychosocial development. ... He believed that each new crisis was a heightened sense of demands that represented a pivotal moment in life when there was an increased vulnerability and heightened potential. ... In the first stage as the individual is an infant the radius of significant relationships extends to the maternal person in their life and the circle of relationships is quite small. Stage two sees that it extends to the parental p...

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The world is a primarily visual environment, nearly every task a person performs each day requires the use of vision. Over time a person must learn to recognise space, size, texture, depth, emotions and all the other links to life that allow them to fully interact with their surroundings. ... (Reference) At birth vision is an infant's least developed sense, their visual acuity is approximately 20/600, this results in everything the child sees being blurry regardless of the distance an object or person is away from the newborn. ...

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According to Bowlby this bond serves as an internal working model and basis for all future relationships from infancy to adult life. ... In terms of the impact of disturbed relationships on personality, it is important to understand that Horney's view was that a child's perception of events, as opposed to the parent's intentions, is the key to understanding a person's personality. ... To cope, Horney believed that the child unconsciously develops a number of defensive attitudes or neurotic needs that she considered all humans need to succeed in life. ...

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