Erikson's stages of psychosocial development

personalities is demonstrated by Erik Erikson’s Stages of development. These eight stages run from childhood to adult hood. In each of these stages there are positive and negative aspects that can contribute to our physical, emotional, intelligence, and social morals that make us who we are (Wade, Tarvis, Garry, 2014, p.489). Each of these stages according to Erikson are present at birth, and with each step building to the next stage of development. Each stage has a psychosocial crisis, which…

provide a solid foundation for families, but also gives parents all the tools necessary to ensure they are helping shape their child into a respectful, confident and content individual. Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development is strongly relevant to this book being that each of his stages, particularly the early stages, are essentially, what allows parents to work through this “how to” book with their child. Erikson discusses many of the important factors within childhood that parents play…

different stages through our development. Jean Piaget’s theory, cognitive development, focuses on different stages of a child where they transition from one stage to the other, and they follow a sequence. His stages and key ideas can be looked at as building blocks meaning, a good foundation can build a sturdy tower that will not easily fall down, however if your foundation is not even or has holes as you stack blocks onto it it will become weaker and easily topple over. The first stage of…

Erickson’s theory of development, he addresses a theory of psychosocial eight stages of development from infancy to adulthood. The purpose of my paper is to explain and recognize the relation to the Erickson theory and the case study of Guinevere Wittingham. Guinever wittingham case talks about her upbringing and the relations to Erickson 8 stage of development theory in a way where it breaks down here life in details of ach stage. During these stages, the person experiences a psychosocial…

Identity Development in different life stages Abstract: This article is going to discuss the identity development the lifetime. Based on the Erik Erikson’s theory (1950), the psychosocial development has eight stages including infancy, early childhood, play age, school age, adolescence, young adult, adult hood and maturity. There are psychosocial crisis in each stage, which are trust and mistrust, autonomy and shame, initiative and guilt, industry and inferiority, ego identity and role…

He taught that life is a series of lessons and challenges that helps us to grow. Erikson came up with eight different psychosocial development stages to help better understand why those lessons and challenges occur. Those stages are Infant (Trust versus Mistrust), Toddler (Autonomy versus Shame and Doubt), Preschool Age (Initiative versus Guilt), Elementary School Age (Industry versus Inferiority), Adolescence (Identity…

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…

In Erikson’s Stage 5 of Psychosocial Development, Identity vs Role Confusion, adolescents ages 12 through 18 struggle to find their identity and trying to fit in. They are questioning themselves and authority as well. They ask themselves who they are and what they want in life in order to get a sense of self. As for authority, they may be questioning their parents or rebel government ideals and develop their own beliefs or follow another groups beliefs they really feel they fit into. Questioning…

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…

emphasis on the role of society at during Ego development. His psychosocial theory of the human indicates successful completion of a hierarchy of developmental situations. Erikson develops eight stages ranging from learning to put trust in others, establishing a balance between initiative and guilt, gathering a sense of efficacy in significant interpersonal relationships, and developing wisdom. This paper will look at the properties of the first stage of Trust versus Mistrust as vulnerabilities…