Erik Erikson Flashcards
What was Erik Erikson’s main focus?
The ability for an individual to solve problems and effectively negotiate society
What is healthy personality and who did Erik Erikson expand on?
- Healthy Perosnality- “actively masters the environment, shows a certain unity of personality, and is able to perceive the world and self correctly”
- Sigmund Freud
What was Erik Erikson’s 2 major beliefs?
- Development of Ego Identity comes is involved in childhood to include a continuity of self over time and the incorporation of the essential patters and values of the culture into the self
- Development occurs over the lifespan
What are the 8 stages of Erikson’s psychosocial stages?
Stage 1: Trust vs. Mistrust
Stage 2: Autonomy vs. Shame & Doubt
Stage 3: Initiative vs. Guilt
Stage4: Industry vs. Inferiority
Stage 5: Identity vs. Identify Diffusion
Stage 6: Intimacy vs. Isolation
Stage 7: Generativity vs. Stagnation
Stage 8: Integrity vs. Despair
Describe Trust vs. Mistrust?
- Age: birth-1yr. of age
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Stage 1: Turst vs. Mistrust
(birth-1 year of age)
Stage 2: Autonomy vs. Shamd and Doubt
(2-3year of age)
Autonmy of a child can progress healthier if parents choose to encourage children to complete tasks that are appropriate t their level of learning. If not children with rigid parents will grow to be overly compulsive and stingy w/ their time and resources.
Stage 3: Initiative vs. Guilt
(3-5years of age)
Stage 4: Industry vs. Inferiority
(6-11year of age)
Stage 5: Identity vs. Identity Diffusion
(12-18 years of age)
The ability for the individual to utilize skills that have been taught in the past and brought forward to the future to understand who the individual is as a person.
Stage 6: Intimacy vs. Isolation
(early adulthood: 19-mid 30s)
When an individual does not have an appropriate sense of slef and identity the individual is most likely to avoid intimate relations, beomc eself absorbed, and isolative.
Stage 7: Generativity vs. Stangation/Self-Absorption
(Middle age: mid 30s-50s)
A person achieving intimacy will then want to procreate and therefore raise children to thake their place in the world.
Stage 8: Inegrity vs. Despair
(old age: 60s and beyond)
A person who feels that they have lived a good life with a life with meaning will do well in this stage versus the person who feel like their life had no meaning and has no time to redo thier life over again.
