Erik Erikson's Psychosocial Theory Flashcards
Relating to the mind, brain and personality.
Psycho
External relationships and environment.
Social
Development of your personality is affected/influenced by the environment.
Psychosocial
Explains that we develop through a predetermined unfolding of our personalities in eight stages.
Epigenetic Principle
Highlighted the influence of one’s environment, particularly on how earlier experiences gradually build upon the next and result into one’s personality.
Epigenetic Principle
How personality was formed and believed that the earlier stages served as a foundation for later stages.
Epigenetic Principle
Positive disposition in each crisis.
Syntonic
Negative disposition in each crisis.
Dystonic
If a stage is managed well, we carry away a certain ___ or ____.
Virtue
Psychosocial Strength
Involves too little of the positive and too much of the negative aspect of the task.
Malignancy
Is not quite as bad; involves too much of the positive and too little of the negative.
Maladaptation
Each stage involves a ___ of two opposing emotional forces. Each crisis stage relates to a corresponding life stage and its inherent challenges.
Psychosocial Crisis
Provide the 8 Psychosocial Crisis
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
The belief that even when things are not going well, they will work out well in the end.
Hope
Overly trusting, gullible, cannot believe that anyone would mean them harm.
Sensory Maladjustment
Characterized by depression, paranoia, possibly psychosis
Witdhrawal
“Can do” attitude
Willpower or Determination
Shameless willfulness leads to jumping into things without proper consideration
Impulsiveness
Feels as if everything must be done perfectly; mistakes must be avoided at all costs.
Compulsiveness
The capacity for action despite a clear understanding of your limitations and past failings.
Courage or Ability to take risks
Heartless; unfeeling - they don’t care who they step on
Ruthlessness
The fear that if they fail, they will be blamed.
“Nothing ventured, nothing lost”
Inhibition
Children develop a belief in their abilities to handle the tasks set before them.
Competency
Those who aren’t allowed to be children
Pushed into one area of competency
Narrow Virtuosity
Those who suffer inferiority complexes
“If at first you don’t succeed, don’t ever try again”
Inertia
Ability to live by society’s standard
It means you have found a place in the community
Fidelity
His way is the only way
Gather around others and promote their beliefs and lifestyles without regards to other’s rights to disagree.
Fanaticism
To reject
They reject their membership in the world of adults and they reject their need for an identity
Repudiation
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.
Love
Tendency to become intimate too freely, too easily, and without any depth to your intimacy
Promiscuity
Tendency to isolate oneself from one love, friendship, and community and develop a certain hatefulness in compensation for one’s loneliness
Exclusion
Virtue of the 7th stage (Generativity and Stagnation)
Caring (for the next generation)
No longer allow time for themselves
Overextension
No longer participate in activities or contribute to society
Rejectivity
Sense of completeness and closure
Also accepts death without fear
Wisdom
This is what happens when a person presumes ego integrity without actually facing the difficulties of old age
Believes that he alone is right
Presumption
A contempt of life, ones own or anyone’s
The person becomes very negative and appears to hate life
Hatred
Regrets
Disdain
Psychosocial Crisis:
Reliability, care, affection
Trust Vs. Mistrust
Psychosocial Crisis:
Sense of independence
Autonomy Vs. Shame and Doubt
Psychosocial Crisis:
Take on challenges/ risks
Initiative Vs. Guilt
Psychosocial Crisis:
Hardwork-schooling
Industry Vs. Inferiority
Psychosocial Crisis:
Who am I?
Identity Vs. Role Confusion
Psychosocial Crisis:
Relationships
Intimacy Vs. Isolation
Psychosocial Crisis:
Assisting the next generation
Generativity Vs. Stagnation
Psychosocial Crisis:
Did I live a meaningful life?
Integrity Vs. Despair
