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M2 Week 8: Erikson Flashcards

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His search for his biologically father contributed to identity confusion

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Erik Erikson

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Born into a single parent family on June 15, 1902 in southern Germany

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Erik Erikson

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Anna Freud often become his editor and coauthor.

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Erik Erikson

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Erik Erikson had four children: _____, _____, _____, and _____.

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Kai, Jon, Neil, and Sue

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Erik failed to take good care of his son _____ who was born with Down syndrome.

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Neil

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He lack academic credentials. He does not have medical or any college degree. He is known as an artist, a psychologist, a psychoanalyst, a clinician, a professor, a cultural anthropologist, an existentialist, a psychobiographer and a public intellectual.

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Erik Erikson

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TRUE or FALSE
Erikson accepted research position in Massachusetts Gen. Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Psychological Clinic.

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TRUE

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TRUE or FALSE
In America, he changed his name from Homburger to Erikson.

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TRUE

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TRUE or FALSE
Erikson abandoned his Jewish identity but countered it by using his full name Erik Homburger Erikson. As time passed, he dropped his middle name with initial H.
Previously he was called:
1. Erik Salomensen
2. Erik Homburger
3. Erik Hombuger Erikson

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TRUE

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TRUE or FALSE
In 1949, Erikson returned to Massachusetts where he worked as a therapist at Austen Riggs, a treatment center for psychoanalytic training and research.

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TRUE

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TRUE or FALSE
Erikson died May 12, 1994 at 91.

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TRUE

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12
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Erik Erikson coined the term _______

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identity crisis

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Erikson extented Freud’s infantile developmental stages into _____, _____, and _____

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adolescence, adulthood, and old age

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TRUE or FALSE
According to Erikson, each stage has a specific psychosocial struggle that contributes to the formation of personality

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TRUE

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From adolescence on, that struggle takes the form of an _______

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identity crisis

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a turning point in one’s life that may either strengthen or weaken personality

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identity crisis

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17
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Erikson’s theory emphasized on ____ and ______.

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social and historical influences

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18
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a positive force that creates a self identity, a sense of I.

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Ego

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The center of our personality that helps us adapt to the various conflicts and crises of life and keeps us from losing our individuality to the leveling forces of society.

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Ego

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20
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During _____, the ego is weak, pliable and fragile.

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childhood

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21
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By _____ ego should begin to take form and gain strength.

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adolescence

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22
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It unifies personality and guards against indivisibility.

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Ego

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3 ASPECTS OF EGO

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  1. Body Ego
  2. Ego Ideal
  3. Ego Identity
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refers to experiences with our body

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represents the image we have of ourselves in comparison with an established ideal; it is responsible for our being satisfied or dissatisfied not only with our physical self but with our entire personal identity.

26
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the image we have of ourselves in the variety of social roles we play.

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Ego Identity

27
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____ is largely shaped by society.

28
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an illusion perpetrated and perpetuated by a particular society that it is somehow chosen to be the human species.

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PSEUDOSPECIES,

29
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term borrowed from embryology

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EPIGENETIC PRINCIPLE

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The ego follows the path of _______ each stage developing at its proper time.

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epigenetic development

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Implies step by step growth of fetal organs.

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EPIGENETIC PRINCIPLE

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one component part arises out of another and
has its own time of ascendancy, but it does not entirely replace earlier components.

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EPIGENETIC PRINCIPLE

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SYNTONIC (harmonious) DYSTONIC (disruptive)
both are necessary for adaptation.

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INTERACTION OF OPPOSITES

34
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each stage has a potential _______

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core pathology.

35
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the conflict between the syntonic and dystonic
produces an ego quality or ego strength.

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BASIC STRENGTH

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Stages of Psychosocial Development

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  1. EPIGENETIC PRINCIPLE
  2. INTERACTION OF OPPOSITES
  3. BASIC STRENGTH
  4. CORE PATHOLOGY
  5. BIOLOGICAL ASPECT
  6. MULTIPLICITY OF CONFLICTS AND EVENTS
  7. IDENTITY CRISIS
37
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________ is considered in human
development.

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BIOLOGICAL ASPECT

38
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earlier stages do not cause later personality
development it is shaped by ______ - past, present and anticipated.

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MULTIPLICITY OF CONFLICTS AND EVENTS

39
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It is not a catastrophic event but an opportunity for either adaptive or maladaptive adjustment. During each stage especially from adolescence forward, personality development is characterized by ________.

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IDENTITY CRISIS

40
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psychosexual modes in psychosocial development

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  1. INFANCY ORAL-SENSORY MODE
  2. EARLY CHILDHOOD ANAL-URETHRAL-MUSCULAR MODE
  3. PLAY AGE GENITAL-LOCOMOTOR MODE
  4. SCHOOL AGE LATENCY
  5. ADOLESCENCE PUBERTY
  6. YOUNG ADULTHOOD GENITALITY
  7. ADULTHOOD PROCREATIVITY
  8. OLD AGE GENERALIZED SENSUALITY
41
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Receiving and accepting what is given.

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INFANCY ORAL-SENSORY MODE

42
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children learn to control their body. especially in relation to cleanliness and mobility.

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EARLY CHILDHOOD ANAL-URETHRAL-MUSCULAR MODE

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the ______ is a drama played out in the child’s imagination

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Oedipal complex

44
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includes the budding understanding of such basic concepts as reproduction, growth, future and death.

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PLAY AGE GENITAL-LOCOMOTOR MODE

45
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They begin to form a picture of themselves as competent or incompetent. These self images are the origin of ego identity “I”, “Me” that evolves fully during adolescence.

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SCHOOL AGE LATENCY

46
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For Erikson, puberty is defined as _______

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no major sexual crisis

47
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_____ during adolescence is an expression of one’s search for identity and basically self-serving.

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Sexual activity

48
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It triggers expectations of adult roles yet ahead-roles that are essentially social and can be filled only through a struggle to attain ego identity.

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ADOLESCENCE PUBERTY

49
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It is the chief psychosexual accomplishment of young adulthood and exists only in an intimate relationship

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YOUNG ADULTHOOD GENITALITY

50
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True genitality develops when it is distinguised by mutaul trust and a stable sharing of sexual satisfactions with a loved person.

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YOUNG ADULTHOOD GENITALITY

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______ refers to more than genital contact with an intimate partner. It includes assuming responsibility for the care of offspring that result

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Procreativity

52
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Mature adulthood demands more than procreating offspring; it includes caring for one’s children as well asother people’s children.

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ADULTHOOD PROCREATIVITY

53
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to take pleasure in a variety of different physical sensations.

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OLD AGE GENERALIZED SENSUALITY

54
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Includes a greater appreciation for the traditional lifestyle of the opposite sex.

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OLD AGE GENERALIZED SENSUALITY

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CRITIQUE OF ERIKSON

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  1. GENERATE RESEARCH - higher than average
  2. FALSIFIABILITY - average
  3. ORGANIZE KNOWLEDGE - limited mostly to developmental stages. It does not address issues as personal traits or motivation.
  4. GUIDE TO ACTION - provides general guidelines but offers little specific advice.
  5. INTERNAL CONSISTENCY - high—terms used to label the different psychosocial crises, basic strengths and core pathologies.
  6. PARSIMONY - moderate rating. Description of psychosexual stages and psychosocial crises are not always clearly differentiated.
56
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Erikson built his theory on _____ rather than scientific data

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ethical principles

57
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CONCEPT OF HUMANITY

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  1. “Anatomy, history and personality are our combined destiny”.
  2. Middle position in deterministic or free choice.
  3. somewhat optimistic.
  4. High on causality
  5. Mixed conscious vs unconscious views
  6. More social
  7. More on Uniqueness and individual differences

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