Module 4: Psychosocial Theory

Question 1

Psychosocial Theory

Answer 1

+ emphasized the influence of society on the developing personality
+ each stage requires balancing positive and negative tendency
+ social and cultural influences mattered
+ views development as a lifelong process
+ stage-oriented
+ active

Question 2

Crisis

Answer 2

major psychosocial challenge that is particularly important at that time and will remain an issue to some degree throughout the rest of life

Question 3

What happens when a person successfully resolves a crisis?

Answer 3

successful resolution of each crisis puts the person in a particularly good position to address the next crisis, a process that occurs iteratively across the life span

Question 4

Social Clock

Answer 4

conventional, culturally preferred timing of important life events

Question 5

Infancy (what is the crisis and virtue)

Answer 5

Crisis: Trust vs. Mistrust
Virtue: Hope

Question 6

Toddlerhood (what is the crisis and virtue)

Answer 6

Crisis: Autonomy vs. Doubt
Virtue: Will

Question 7

Early Childhood/Play Age (what is the crisis and virtue)

Answer 7

Crisis: Initiative vs. Guilt
Virtue: Purpose

Question 8

Middle and Late Childhood/School Age (what is the crisis and virtue)

Answer 8

Crisis: Industry vs. Inferiority
Virtue: Competence

Question 9

Adolescence (what is the crisis and virtue)

Answer 9

Crisis: Identity vs. Identity Confusion
Virtue: Fidelity

Question 10

Young Adulthood (what is the crisis and virtue)

Answer 10

Crisis: Intimacy vs. Isolation
Virtue: Love

Question 11

Middle Adulthood (what is the crisis and virtue)

Answer 11

Crisis: Generativity vs. Stagnation
Virtue: Care

Question 12

Late Adulthood (what is the crisis and virtue)

Answer 12

Crisis: Integrity vs. Despair
Virtue: Wisdom