Relationship of developmental theory and learning:

The eight stages of development of Erikson’s theory have great impact on learning. During child infancy, they learn to trust and mistrust others. They acquire the knowledge of when to trust a person and in what situation a person can be a trustable one. According to Fleming (2004), at this stage when the child is feeding in bottle instead of breast feeding, child learns to accept his mother’s absence without undo anxiety.

During next stage of their life child acquire knowledge of talking, walking, feeding oneself and learn to do these things. As well as child learns to control bowel (Fleming, 2004). They have to be given chances to experience these things in their own; otherwise it will lead them to be shame and doubt and will lose their confident. During this phase, if the parents are educated children learn lot of things. Most of the children learn basic education during this age. The educated parent’s and uneducated parent’s child will be very different when they move to another stage of life. As a result it will affect their later life.

In the age of 3 to 6 years old, children will be in preschools and they learn through imaginative play. In this stage of development, children learn to be friendly and how to behave in different context. “When children enter schools, some brings a strong set of skills, motivations and self-perception that will facilitate learning and relationship and others bring behavior or self-regulation problems and negative expectation for self or others that will hinder learning and friendship” (Coatsworth & Masten, 1998). These behavioral actions they learn will be used in their later life.

 Adolescence is the most critical age, where they learn most of the things for their future life. They learn to be good person or bad person during this phase of their life. Children who acquire confidence, are mostly those who participate in co-curricular activities, through that they learn lot of skills for their later life. They search for their own identity and experience and learn lot of things during the process of findings. A person whole lifetime takes to acquire psychosocial strengths. People learn from the mistakes they do in their life. So, learning and lifespan development have a great relationship.

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