Erikson's stages of psychosocial development

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 further damage to their psychosocial development.…

this is hope. The second stage - Autonomy vs. Shame which happens during early childhood and the virtue of this is the will to do something. The third stage - Initiative vs. Guilt which happens around the play age, the virtue in this stage is purpose. The fourth stage in Erikson’s Psychosocial development - Industry vs. Inferiority which happens around the school age years. In this stage the basic virtue is competency. The fifth stage - Identity vs. Identity Confusion this stage occurs during…

Generativity vs Stagnation (Middle Adulthood 40-65 years) The seventh stage of Erikson’s Psychosocial Development covers middle adulthood age 40-65 years. In entering this stage individual’s main focus is career, family, church, relationship and community. There are two kind of life styles Generativity vs Stagnation. Generative people love to prevail and play leading, positive and productive role towards their family and community. Their main concerns are family, successful raising their…

20) Erik Erikson’s eight stages of man theory suggests that every person has eight stages in their life cycle that they must pass through. Erikson assumed that a crisis of psychosocial nature happened at each of his stages because the person’s psychological needs would conflict with society’s needs and if each stage was completed successfully, then the person would have a healthy personality. If they were unable to complete a stage, they would have an unhealthy sense of self and personality, but…

Although at times it seems that Levinson focused more on a male perspective about psychosocial career development (Berk, 2013, page 380). He goes on to describe women’s development as a split division between a career they want and marriage or family. Compared to Levinson’s theory, I think I could not settle down until I have reached my career goals due to the fact that I do not…

Cognitive Development Theories The purpose of this paper is to discuss cognitive development research and theories. The four theorists discussed in this work are Jean Piaget, Erik Erikson, B.F. Skinner, and Lev Vygotsky. Cognitive development is described as the way someone would construct thought processes and learn different skills such as remembering, problem solving, and making decisions from the time someone is a child until they are an adult. Jean Piaget Jean Piaget was best known for…

According to Erickson, there are eight life stages from infancy until late adulthood and each one is characterized by distinguished psychosocial events. In Erickson’s view development continues throughout the life span and a person needs to solve a crisis at each stage to attain a healthy personality. Furthermore, conflicting possibilities and outcomes characterize each crisis that needs to be solved. The…

Erikson’s Psychosocial Development Theory Intimacy vs. Isolation. According to Maria (1966) “identity achievement individuals have gone through a period of crisis and have made commitments to an occupation and ideology” (Adams & Kacerguis, 1980, p. 117). In this stage, adults seek meaningful relationships. Additionally, the goal of this stage is to “fuse identities” though intimacy (Adams & Kacerguis p. 118, 1980). During this time, she felt very isolated and alone living in the camps. However,…

decisions and interactions, and Taron has shown this behavior since childhood”. Bandura and Piaget’s social development theories plays a big part in…

talk about human development and behaviour at different life stages using theories from different psychological approaches. Erik Erikson was one of the writers who developed the psychodynamic approach to psychology. His theory is known as the psychosocial theory of development as he believed that a person’s development depends on their social class, culture and their norms for the society that they live in. According to Erik Erikson (1902) a person will go through different stages of their…