ThinkingCycles of Development

Prepared By Manu Melwin JoyResearch Scholar

School of Management StudiesCUSAT, Kerala, India.Phone – 9744551114

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“The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.”

Albert Einstein

Cycles of development

Stage 3• Stage : Thinking.• Duration : 18 Months – 3 years.• Activity - During this stage a child

develops their thinking capacity. They will want to reason things out for themselves and make their own decisions. Our future ability to think depends on how we develop in this stage. An overly controlled child for instance, where adults make most decisions for them, may have difficulty in making decisions for themselves when they are older.

Cycles of development

Stage 3

Cycles of development

Stage 3Compromise Recycling After three years, Stage 3 is

significant

If we are not allowed to develop our thinking and problem solving skills, we may find it hard to form our own opinions or solve our own problems later in life. This distrust of our thinking is often expressed as “I don’t know.”

As in our first experience of this stage, our curiosity is heightened as well as our intuitiveness. We feel a need to establish a new level of independence and individuality—our separateness.

• When breaking out of a dependency relationship (with a lover, spouse, mentor, employer or friend).

• When learning new information.

• When developing a new personal position or taking a stand.

• When changing agreements and

• When parenting a toddler.

Cycles of development

Clues for returning to Thinking• Feeling angry about everything in general;

inappropriate rebelliousness (chip on shoulder).

• Fear of anger in self and others; indirect expressions of anger through behaviours.

• Wanting to establish what is “mine” and what is “yours.”

• Lots of questions about separateness, responsibility and thinking (especially resistance, contrariness, forgetfulness, discounting/accounting, stubbornness, procrastination and greed).

• Rather be right than successful.• Think the world revolves around us.• Scared to say yes or no without thinking.

Summary of Thinking stage

• Ego state : Adult.• Activity : Thinking.• Functional Metaphor : Computer.• Psychoanalytic equivalent : Anal.• Needs : Time and information, reasons, limits, affection. • Problem solving procedure : Try and make me.• Games : Schlemiel, Stupid, balance sheet. • Mechanism : Discounting. • Injunctions : Don’t think, Don’t have needs separate

from me.

References

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http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/cycles-of-developement-pamela-levin-transactional-analysis.

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