Erik the Red

The eight key stages of Erik Erikson’s Psychosocial Development theory were: 1. Trust versus Mistrust: During the first eighteen months of life, children are focused on developing a sense of trust in caregivers and the world. Children who receive warm and responsive care are able to develop an attitude of trust in people. Incompetence to develop trust will result in fear and learns not to trust the people around him (Berk & Meyers 2016). 2. Autonomy versus Shame and Doubt: This second stage…

The concept of basic hope was introduced by Erikson (1993) in his psychosocial theory of development and was described as a first virtue of ego achieved in the early infancy (0-18 month). The theory describes the impact of external factors, parents or caregivers and society on personality development, which is processing gradually through the eight stages throughout our life-time: (1) trust vs. mistrust, (2) autonomy vs. shame/doubt, (3) initiative vs. guilt, (4) industry vs. inferiority, (5)…

Identity is a crucial aspect of adolescence development. Identity is defined as how a person describes who they believe they are in terms of their own self-perception (Santrock, 2014). Erik Erikson’s theory states that there are eight developmental stages from birth to late adulthood. The fifth stage takes place around 10 years old till 20 years old, and this stage is for identity versus identity confusion. During this stage, adolescents ask questions about answering who, where and what they…

introduction Human development is the process of change and stability throughout the human life span. There are eight periods of life span, defined as prenatal period, Infancy and Toddler hood, early childhood, Middle childhood, Adolescence, Young adulthood, Middle adulthood, and late adulthood. Each period depends on the preceding period in addition; with passage of time complex changes occur. Those changes are associated with the three domains of human development, according to many theorists…

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…