Erikson's stages of psychosocial development

theory is a psychosocial theory. It is made up of eight different stages: birth-1 year, 2-3 years, 4-5 years, 6 years-puberty, adolescence, early childhood, middle adulthood, and later adulthood. His firsts stage, birth to 1 year, crisis is trust vs. mistrust. It has both positive and negative consequences. On the positive side infants to toddlers have trust in themselves and things around them. On the negative side they are afraid of others that are not always around. Erikson’s second stage,…

paper I will talk about Erikson 's Psychosocial Theory which describes the impact of social experience across the whole lifespan. In Erikson 's Psychosocial Theory he believed that a person 's social environment shapes their behaviors and personality and he also believes that the EGO was the most important portion of the personality. I choose this theory because I like how Erikson suggests that there is still plenty of room for continued growth and development throughout one’s life. Erikson…

Some of the reactions to parental divorce among infants, from birth to one year, include: irritability, increase in crying, increase need for physical contact, and acute separation anxiety (Oppawsky, 2014). At this stage in development the infant is developing what Erick Erikson called trust versus mistrust and if their needs are not met because the parents are distracted from the problems involving the divorce, then the child will develop mistrust from the care of others…

complex interplay of roles and identity crises. The goal of this paper is to summarize research findings on the central themes and salient challenges of young adulthood such as cognitive, personality and relationship development associated with Erikson’s sixth stage of Psychosocial development, Intimacy versus Isolation. Conceptual frameworks and ideas of solutions are presented in lieu of challenges offered. Findings demonstrating the impact of South Africa’s unique socio-cultural context on…

necessary for development of the brain cognitively in order to develop socially. The social development of individuals is absolutely essential, and allows for individuals to learn and eventually prescribe to socially agreed upon ways of behaving in their world (Whitehead, 2011). Development of the brain, is known as “cognitive” development (Mangan 2007, Combs 2009). Within our model we discuss Erik Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development as a reference to one of many cognitive development…

school . Freud’s forth stage goes from 5 or 6 to puberty. Freud used the term latency to show that quantities changes which occurs in the libido during these few years. A lot of the Childs energies are focused on developing new skills. A Childs play can be become almost exclusive to that of the same sex; balance of the id, ego, and superego during latency is greater than at any other stage of development. (Gross 1993) Erikson considered the fourth stage of lifespan development as industry vs.…

doing research on the developmental evolution in the human life-span, the different age-related stages and how this affects the behavioural and cognitive development of a human being. I will do so, by extracting information based on Freud and Erikson’s theories, of psycho-sexual development and the psycho-social development. Thus, accumulating a factional and reflective essay. They understand development as, an age-related life-span process, in which all human beings will experience this. They…

Development is a crucial part of individual lives and there are many factors that can influence an individual’s development, and development can be different for everyone. There are many different theories around development, with two key theories being Erikson’s psychosocial theory and Vygotsky’s cognitive theory. Erikson’s theory focuses on solving internal conflicts, whereas Vygotsky’s concentrates on the zone of proximal development (ZPD), and assisting students in their learning. Teachers…

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…

According to Piaget’s stages theory of cognitive development, in early infancy (preoperational stage) a child has no object permanence, but by the time they reach the age of two or three (stage 6), they develop object permanence and eventually mental representation (Steinberg, Bornstein, Vandell, Rook, 2011, pg. 126-127) (Social and Emotional Growth). For example…