What are the stages of development according to mead?

Stages of development Mead minimized the importance of Biology in personality development. The key was social experience, not maturation.

Mead saw infants as responding to others only in terms of imitation, or mimicking behavior without understanding.

As the use of symbols emerges the child enters a play stage in which role-taking occurs. Initially, the roles are modeled after significant others, especially parents.

Through further social experience children enter the game stage where the simultaneous playing of many roles is possible.

The final stage involves the development of a generalized other, or the general cultural norms and values shared by us and others that we use as a point of reference in evaluating ourselves.