Erik Larson

Erik Erikson believed that all individuals had to overcome certain psychosocial conflicts to adapt properly to the environment around them. His theory focuses on eight stages that each result in a new personality characteristic. The environment at the time and the individual’s response to it determine whether the quality of the personality will be healthy or unhealthy. A healthy outcome leads to an easier time of accomplishing more positive results. An unhealthy outcome has potential to cause…

as primarily unconscious and heavily colored by emotion. Behavior is merely a surface characteristic, and the symbolic workings of the mind have to be analyzed to understand behavior. Early experiences with parents are emphasized.” (Santrock, 2015) Erik Erikson Psychosocial Theory had eight stages of human development. The first stage is trust versus mistrust and the development period was also infancy, but only the first year of infancy. The second stage is autonomy versus shame and doubt and…

Erikson's Psychosocial Theory Mario A Garcia University of Houston ‘ Erikson's psychosocial theory is a series of eight stages that an individual must go through throughout their life. Each stage presents its own crisis/ conflict that a person must successfully resolve for a healthy development. If the crisis is not resolved, it could lead to certain conflicts within the individual's overall development. Erikson believed that everyone had a predetermined plan that places them within…

Erik Erikson came up with eight stages that he thought influenced the development of man. The first four stages correlated with Freud’s psychosexual stages and the last four stages, Erikson elaborated on the genital stage of Freud’s theory. Erikson said that his developmental stages were more hierarchal and they tended to be cumulative, rather than clear cut stages one gets passed (Erikson, 1969). He also believed that virtues that arose from the different stages needed to constantly be…

Adolescence is a vital time in the development and shaping of one’s personality, beliefs and self-image. It is a time of finding one’s self, and is accompanied by the difficulties and angst of doing so. Adolescent angst is a key theme and is evident in both the texts ‘The Killing of Mud-Eye’ written by Celeste Walters and ‘Looking for Alibrandi’ directed by Kate Woods. The main characters from each, Linton Begg and Josie Alibrandi, struggle to overcome these problems, mainly within their family…

Adolescence is a difficult time in anyone's life. Many teens are caught up between trying to be an adult and wanting to stay a child. There are certain characteristics that reflect which part a teen is stuck on, such as maturity. In J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, Holden the narrator is greatly lacking in maturity. Throughout this novel he exemplifies that he is a very impulsive teen with the want to be an adult. Holden has many outbursts showing he has no control over his actions and is…

life-cycle model seemed like a contemporary version of Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress.” The allegory The Pilgrim’s Progress is essentially a story about a spiritual journey through life, ending with eternity spent in the Celestial City, a.k.a. “Heaven.” Erik H. Erikson’s life-cycle model of eight developmental stages is an overview for understanding the human lifespan. At first glance, one might not see much room for comparison. Erikson’s stages cover the entire human lifespan, while The…

Erikson’s initial stage, Trust vs. Mistrust, approximately begin to happen from birth to one year. Erikson thought that an infant whose immediate needs are met, such as being comforted when comfort is needed by the infants will develop trust. He also said that in order to learn to discriminate between people who are honest and dishonest, mistrust is necessary. At this stage, should it happen that mistrust prevails over trust, the child will be withdrawn, suspious and will be devoid of…

This is where Erik Erikson’s view of Identity Formation becomes relevant. According to Erikson’s eight stage life-long developmental process, Angel’s trust issues would be connected to the inability of her mother to provide the fundamental needs at infancy during Trust…

The first stage is Trust vs. Mistrust and takes place from birth to around one year old. This is where the infant displays either mistrust of individuals or actions or they show that they are not afraid and are very trusting. From what my mother tells me, I was a very trusting baby. (1) When I was 10 months old I started walking, I wasn’t afraid to try and I didn’t know that I could possibly fail. I wasn’t afraid to venture outside and run or climb either. (2) I was very trusting of my parents,…