Erik the Red

I did some background information on Erik Larson, who also had written for the Harper’s, The New Yorker, and the Atlantic Monthly, had also contribute to Time magazine, and the Wall Street Journal as well. I believe that Erik Larson is trying to arguing in The Devil in the White City that the city (Chicago) is hiding it ugly side by covering it up with the World’s Fair which is also…

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…

The eighth and final stage of Erikson’s psychosocial development model is integrity versus despair. This stage occurs during the end of the individual’s life, from around the age of sixty-five until death. It attempts to answer the question, “What have I done with my life?”, including regrets, satisfaction, and choices made. Erikson (1967) views this stage as “the ego’s accrued assurance of its proclivity for order and meaning [...] the acceptance of one’s one and only life cycle and of the…

Marcia Marcia disagreed with Erickson’s views on his identity phase of development and enhanced them by centralizing his theory on adolescent development. Marcia proposed four different phases of identity development. Before the child can develop their identity they must first break away from their childhood belief and explore alternative identities, choose one and commit to it. He identified life defining areas for identity development as: politics, career, religion (Marcia 1966) Marcia’s…

Emotional Development Birth to Three Erickson refers to this stage as the “trust versus mistrust” in this stage it is essential for the infant to find consistency, predictability, reliability in their parents (Crain, 2011). Children that have developed this trust are able to allow their parents to leave with being upset for a long period of time, however infants are sometimes upset but when the parent is gone the caregiver is able to sooth the child quickly. This time frame is also when some…

Erik Erikson was a German ego psychologist who expanded psychoanalytic theory by exploring human development in stages of childhood, adolescence and adulthood. Erikson was the child of an extramarital affair and was raised by his Jewish mother, Karla Abrahamsen, for some time before she married physician, Theodor Homberger. The fact that Dr. Homberger was not Erikson’s biological father was hidden from him for some time. When he came to learn the truth, Erikson was left feeling confused about…

intrapersonal conflict from which they gained psychological qualities and personal skills that theoretically serve as constructs or frameworks of reference from which future social interactions can be interpreted (Erikson, 1968). Erikson used the term psychosocial stages to explain his theory regarding how people go through distinct, predictable, linear phases of conflict that shape their perceptions of the actions of others and consequently respond to these perceptions (Erickson, 1968). These…