Erik Erikson was a psychologist who came up with the theory that everyone goes through eight stages of psychosocial development in their lifetime. This theory is called the "epigenetic principle." How we go through each stage is determined by the situations‚ or development "tasks‚" in our lives. Each stage has a task that is referred to with a two-word phrase‚ such as trust-mistrust’ in the infant’s stage. Also‚ each stage has what is called an optimal time‚’ which means that each stage can
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The seventh stage is that of middle adulthood. It is hard to pin a time to it‚ but it would include the period during which we are actively involved in raising children. For most people in our society‚ this would put it somewhere between the middle twenties and the late fifties. The task here is to cultivate the proper balance of generativity and stagnation. Generativity is an extension of love into the future. It is a concern for the next generation and all future generations. As such‚ it is considerably
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Erik Erikson’s Stages of Psychosocial Development Erikson’s Theory states that‚ throughout life‚ we go through various stages during which we meet ever changing psychosocial challenges. The completion of the work of each stage— which Erikson calls a crisis—prepares us to move on to the following stage. According to this theory‚ if we do not resolve the crisis during any of the stages we will continue to create events throughout life which will recreate that crisis until we have done the psychosocial
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Erik Erikson was a German developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst known for his theory on psychological development of human beings. Erikson believed that personality develops in a series of eight stages over the lifespan: Trust vs Mistrust‚ Autonomy vs Shame and Doubt‚ Initiative vs Guilt‚ Industry vs Inferiority‚ Identity vs Role Confusion‚ Intimacy vs Isolation‚ Generativity vs Stagnation and Ego Integrity vs Despair. Examples of these stages can be recognised in the film Looking For
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Erikson’s Stages of Development While reading the textbook‚ Erik Erikson’s psychological theories of development seemed interesting and stood out to us. Erik Erikson (1902-1994) was a psychosocial theorist that was a follower of Sigmond Freud (Berger‚ 2012). He acknowledged the significance of the unconscious mind and early childhood‚ as well as‚ furthered his studies and developed his own ideas. In the following paragraphs‚ we will describe Erikson’s eight stages of psychosocial development.
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1. In Erikson’s first stage of psychosocial development‚ crisis is experienced that called trust versus mistrust. In this stage‚ children develop a sense of trust when caregivers provide reliability‚ care‚ and affection. A lack of this lead to mistrust. We can see that Chrystell was really calm baby. For example‚ she did not demand to be fed that often. Even after waking up in the morning‚ Chrystell did not cry histerically for food. His mother also take care of Chrystell very well. On the other
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