Erikson
Erikson's 6th Stage (early adulthood)
AGE: 20-25 CONFLICT: intimacy vs isolation RESOLUTION: love CULMINATION IN OLD AGE: Sense of complexity of relationships; value of tenderness and loving freely
Erikson's 7th Stage (adulthood)
AGE: 26-64 CONFLICT: generativity vs stagnation VIRTUE: care CULMINATION IN OLD AGE: caring for others, empathy and concern
Erikson's 8th Stage (old age)
AGE: 65-death CONFLICT: integrity vs despair VIRTUE: wisdom CULMINATION IN OLD AGE: existential identity; a sense of integrity, strong enough to withstand physical disintegration
Erikson's 1st stage (infancy)
Age: 0-1yrs Conflict: Basic trust vs Mistrust Resolution: Hope Culmination in old age: Appreciation of interdependence & relatedness
Erikson's 2nd Stage (early childhood)
Age: 1-3 yrs Conflict: Autonomy vs Shame Resolution: Will Culmination in old age: Acceptance of cycle of life from integration to disintegration
Erikson's 5th Stage (Adolescence)
Age: 12-19 Conflict: Identity vs confusion Virtue: Fidelity Culmination in old age: sense of complexity of life, merging of sensory, logical, and aesthetic perception
Erikson's 3rd Stage (play age)
Age: 3-6 Conflict: initiative vs guilt Virtue: Purpose Culmination in old age: Humor, empathy, and resilience
Purpose
Courage to envision and purpose of goals
Will
Desire to exercise freedom of choice
Fidelity as a goal
Loyalty -reflects formation of identity
Crisis
Turning point faced in each stage
Maturity/Old Age (4 points)
* EVALUATION of our whole life *EGO INTEGRITY: accepting one's place and past *DESPAIR: regret and frustration over major parts of our life *HERITAGE: conveying the wisdom gained to the next generation
4 Types of Adolescents
*Identity Achievement *Moratorium *Foreclosure *Identity Diffusion
Erikson's 5 basic terms
*Psychosocial Stages *Crisis *Basic Strength *Basic Weakness *Ways of Coping
(Adolescence) Identity Cohesion vs Role Confusion (5 things)
*ego identity *identity crisis *fidelity as a goal *psychological (moratorium) *Mal-Development
Epigenetic Principle of maturation
-genetics is primary -social & environmental is secondary but influential
Psychosocial Stages
8 successive stages over the lifespan *you must cope with a crisis at each stage*
Erikson's 4th Stage (school age)
Age: 6-12 Conflict: industry vs inferiority Virtue/Resolution: Competence Culmination in old age: Humility; acceptance of the course of one's life & unfulfilled hopes
Care
Broad concern to help others and develop oneself
Ways of Coping
Healthy and maladaptive strategies to resolve crisis
Basic Strength
Motivating characteristics and beliefs that come from healthy resolution of each crisis
Basic Weakness
Motivating characteristics that come from unhealthy resolution of each crisis
Love
Mutual devotion in shared identity (the greatest virtue)
Hope
belief that out desires will be satisfied
Moratorium defined
break from focus on things like sexual development during childhood and adulthood
Identity Achievement
committed to occupational and ideological choices -attained ego identity
Mal-Dev & 2 types
condition that occurs when ego adopts only one way of coping *repudiation *fanaticism
Wisdom
detached concern with the whole of life
Epigenetic Principle
development is governed by a sequence of stages dependent on hereditary factors
Competence
exertion of skill and intellect in completing tasks
Identity Crisis
failure to achieve ego identity
foreclosure
firmly committed to an ideology but underwent no crisis -wonder aimlessly
Identity Diffusion
no identity crisis or ideology
Ego Identity
self-image formed during adolescence that integrates who we are and who we want to be
Fidelity
sincerity and development of relationships
Moratorium
still undergoing ego identity -ambivalent views
