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This 3 page paper discusses the book "Children" by J.W. Santrock, the theories of Albert Bandura and Erik Erikson and how they relate to the book "Raising Cain" by Kindlon and Thompson. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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is generally acknowledged to be one of the most important in the field. This paper discusses some of the books theories and compares them to those of Albert Bandura and
Erik Erikson, and to theories in the book Raising Cain by Dan Kindlon and Michael Thompson. Discussion In his book, Santrock discusses some of the basic theories of child development,
including that of Erik Erikson and Albert Bandura, so well take a look as well. Bandura is fascinating for his "BoBo doll" experiments, which have become famous. Briefly, Bandura showed
a group of young children a videotape of his assistant beating, punching and kicking a BoBo doll (one of those inflatable dolls that pops back up when its knocked down),
yelling words like "sockeroo" at it, etc. (Isom, 1998). He then he led them to an adjoining room where such a doll was located. The children did exactly as his
assistant had done: punched, kicked and beat the doll, yelled the same words at it, and so on. From this Bandura concluded that children "model" their behavior on that of
others; that is, they copy what they see because the behavior is rewarding in some way (Isom, 1998). Theres more to it, of course, but thats the basic idea. Eriksons
contribution was his theory of developmental stages. Since Santrocks book covers early childhood through adolescence, it coincides exactly with Eriksons thinking, at least for the first years. Erikson posited eight
stages of development; we are interested in the first five, which are Oral-sensory; muscular-anal; locomotor; latency; and adolescence (Erik Eriksons 8 stages of psychosocial development). Each stage comprises a
basic conflict that the child must resolve in order to move on; these conflicts include such things as trust vs. mistrust; "autonomy vs. shame/doubt" and "initiative vs. guilt" (Erik Eriksons
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