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