Erik Erikson's Psychosocial Theory Flashcards

1
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Relating to the mind, brain and personality.

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Psycho

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2
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External relationships and environment.

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Social

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3
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Development of your personality is affected/influenced by the environment.

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Psychosocial

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4
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Explains that we develop through a predetermined unfolding of our personalities in eight stages.

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Epigenetic Principle

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5
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Highlighted the influence of one’s environment, particularly on how earlier experiences gradually build upon the next and result into one’s personality.

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Epigenetic Principle

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6
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How personality was formed and believed that the earlier stages served as a foundation for later stages.

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Epigenetic Principle

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7
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Positive disposition in each crisis.

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Syntonic

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8
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Negative disposition in each crisis.

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Dystonic

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9
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If a stage is managed well, we carry away a certain ___ or ____.

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Virtue
Psychosocial Strength

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10
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Involves too little of the positive and too much of the negative aspect of the task.

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Malignancy

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Is not quite as bad; involves too much of the positive and too little of the negative.

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Maladaptation

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12
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Each stage involves a ___ of two opposing emotional forces. Each crisis stage relates to a corresponding life stage and its inherent challenges.

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Psychosocial Crisis

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13
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Provide the 8 Psychosocial Crisis

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Trust Vs. Mistrust
Autonomy Vs. Shame and Doubt
Initiative Vs. Guilt
Industry Vs. Inferiority
Identity Vs. Role Confusion
Intimacy Vs. Isolation
Generativity Vs. Stagnation
Integrity Vs. Despair

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14
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The belief that even when things are not going well, they will work out well in the end.

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Hope

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15
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Overly trusting, gullible, cannot believe that anyone would mean them harm.

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Sensory Maladjustment

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16
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Characterized by depression, paranoia, possibly psychosis

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Witdhrawal

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17
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“Can do” attitude

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Willpower or Determination

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18
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Shameless willfulness leads to jumping into things without proper consideration

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Impulsiveness

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19
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Feels as if everything must be done perfectly; mistakes must be avoided at all costs.

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Compulsiveness

20
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The capacity for action despite a clear understanding of your limitations and past failings.

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Courage or Ability to take risks

21
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Heartless; unfeeling - they don’t care who they step on

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Ruthlessness

22
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The fear that if they fail, they will be blamed.
“Nothing ventured, nothing lost”

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Inhibition

23
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Children develop a belief in their abilities to handle the tasks set before them.

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Competency

24
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Those who aren’t allowed to be children
Pushed into one area of competency

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Narrow Virtuosity

25
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Those who suffer inferiority complexes
“If at first you don’t succeed, don’t ever try again”

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Inertia

26
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Ability to live by society’s standard
It means you have found a place in the community

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Fidelity

27
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His way is the only way
Gather around others and promote their beliefs and lifestyles without regards to other’s rights to disagree.

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Fanaticism

28
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To reject
They reject their membership in the world of adults and they reject their need for an identity

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Repudiation

29
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Includes not only the love we find in a good marriage, but the love between friends and the love one’s neighbor, co-worker and compatriot as well.

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Love

30
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Tendency to become intimate too freely, too easily, and without any depth to your intimacy

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Promiscuity

31
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Tendency to isolate oneself from one love, friendship, and community and develop a certain hatefulness in compensation for one’s loneliness

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Exclusion

32
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Virtue of the 7th stage (Generativity and Stagnation)

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Caring (for the next generation)

33
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No longer allow time for themselves

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Overextension

34
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No longer participate in activities or contribute to society

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Rejectivity

35
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Sense of completeness and closure
Also accepts death without fear

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Wisdom

36
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This is what happens when a person presumes ego integrity without actually facing the difficulties of old age
Believes that he alone is right

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Presumption

37
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A contempt of life, ones own or anyone’s
The person becomes very negative and appears to hate life
Hatred
Regrets

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Disdain

38
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Psychosocial Crisis:

Reliability, care, affection

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Trust Vs. Mistrust

39
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Psychosocial Crisis:

Sense of independence

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Autonomy Vs. Shame and Doubt

40
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Psychosocial Crisis:

Take on challenges/ risks

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Initiative Vs. Guilt

41
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Psychosocial Crisis:

Hardwork-schooling

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Industry Vs. Inferiority

42
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Psychosocial Crisis:

Who am I?

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Identity Vs. Role Confusion

43
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Psychosocial Crisis:

Relationships

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Intimacy Vs. Isolation

44
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Psychosocial Crisis:

Assisting the next generation

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Generativity Vs. Stagnation

45
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Psychosocial Crisis:

Did I live a meaningful life?

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Integrity Vs. Despair