Erik Larson

The emotional development of a child is a gradual process, shaped by the choices, challenges and relationships presented in life. Psychodynamic theorist Erik Erikson hypothesised, a person’s life can be divided into eight stages and every stage proposes a turning point that directs future decisions. The impact of these experiences, also start to build a person’s personality, as they strive to discover who they are in the world and where they belong (Marsh, 2008). The first stage trust versus…

Topic 1. Through the life-spam human are in constantly development, each of the stage has its own characteristics but some are similar such as part of the transition to the next stage. Some of the characteristics of the adolescences are physic change, exploring of the personal identity, change in behavior, emotion changes, looks situation from their own perspective just to name a few. During young adult, little more mature than in adolescence, more independency, more active and healthy, focus on…

The sixth stage is intimacy vs. isolation in which development occurs in early adulthood between ages nineteen to thirty-nine (Evans, Forney, Guido, Patton, & Renn, 2010). During this stage of development young adults develop close relationships in the hopes of having a secure and committed relationship in the future. In this stage it is important to have a strong sense of personal identity. Those who do not develop committed relationship are more likely to suffer from emotional isolation,…

Renowned Psychologist, Erik Erikson has 8 stages of psychological stages which are: Trust vs mistrust, autonomy vs. shame and doubt, initiative vs. guilt, industry vs. inferiority, identity vs. confusion, intimacy vs. isolation, generativity vs. stagnation, and integrity v. despair. These stages cover the life span from birth to death. People who successfully go through each conflict gain a new understanding of themselves and are psychologically successful. On the other hand, people have fail…

As we age and mature over our lifetime our goals and the things that were important to us at the age of 18 are no longer important to us at the age of 50. Although, there are some people at a young age, and through their adolescents who are more goal oriented than others, but typically the majority of adolescents are stuck in Erikson’s stage of identity versus role confusion. Therefore, during this time they are more concerned about themselves and who they want to become as adults. Although,…

Every new borne babies go through a life journey and that journey is from newborn to toddler, from toddler to teenager, and from teenager to mature adult. To put that in four words “from womb to tomb.” At each stage of life’s journey Myers, 2014, explains there are three vital milestone and those are cognitive, physical, and social milestones (Myers, 2014, p117). Although life is a journey, for this assignment we will be going through a journey in comparing and contrasting Erikson psychosocial…

Erik Erikson is the psychologist, who creates “Lifespan development”. Erikson believed that personality develops in a series of predetermined stages. In each stage of development, Erikson described conflicts that act as turning points in life. In Erikson’s view, these conflicts are centered on either developing a psychological quality or failing to develop that quality. In this theory, each person has eight stages of development during all life. They are - basic trust (0-18month), autonomy (18…

Erikson’s development stages and the identity system is what makes a person who they are. How Erikson explains each part of the stages of development, a person’s identity comes into play. Growing up all the way till the day a person dies, a person develops an ego that describes themselves and the identity of how they see themselves in the world and to others. From being born to eighteen months a baby starts to form their identity. With their identity and as they get older they would need to…

Erik Erikson’s psychosocial developmental stages are eight stages that explain that humans go through social experiences in your life. These social experiences can be positive or negative. Erikson believed that every stage has a crisis that can affect your life negatively and a developmental task that could affect it positively. These stages show how social interactions affect human development and determines the person they become. In this paper, the stage I was to focus on is the sixth, the…

Adolescents is a very complex and complicated time in any adolescent’s life. It is a time of growth and development of one’s psychosocial, intellectual, and emotional self. As well as many biological and hormonal changes that occurs. In Erikson’s (1968) Lifespan Theory, Erikson identified this time in a person’s life as identity versus role conflict. During this time in an adolescence’s life having a clear sense of self and identity is being established as they grow into adults. Concurrent to…