1902-1994
By: Leighana Jagow
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Born in Frankfurt, Germany on
June 15th, 1902
Karla Abrahamsen raised him
alone for the first three years of
his life
Tall, blond, blue-eyed boy who
was Jewish
Know as Erik Homberger during
his childhood and his early
adulthood
Immigrated to the United States
in 1933
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Focused on being an artist during high school
1938-began his first studies of cultural
influences on psychological development
Had a special interest in the influence of
society and culture on child development
Studied groups of American Indian Children
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Married Joan Serson and had three children
Taught at Yale and at the University of
California at Berkeley
1950-wrote Childhood and Society
Taught at a clinic in Massachusetts for ten
years and ten more years at Harvard
Retired in 1970
Died in 1994
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Also known as the Oral Sensory Stage
Big emphasis on visual contact and touch
Most significant relationship is with the
maternal parent
Major emphasis on the mother’s positive and
loving care for the child
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Learn to master skill for ourselves
Opportunity to build self-esteem and
autonomy
Gain more control over our bodies and
acquire new skills
Can be very vulnerable
Most significant relationship are with the
parents
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Experience desire to copy the adults around
us
Take initiative in creating play situations
May up stories
At this stage we usually become involved in
the classis “Oedipal struggle”
Resolve this struggle through “social role
identification”
Most significant relationship is with the family
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Often called Latency
Capable of learning, creating, and
accomplishing numerous new skills and
knowledge
Very social stage of development
The world expands a bit
Most significant relationship is with the
school and neighborhood
Parents are no longer complete authorities
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Development mostly depends upon what is
done to us
Life getting more complex
Find our own identity, struggle with social
interactions and grapple with moral issues
Task is to discover who we are as an individual
Moratorium- the process where adolescence go
into a period of withdrawing from
responsibilities
Establish a philosophy of life
Most significant relationship is with our peer
groups
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Initial stage of being an adult
Try to find mutually satisfying relationships
Begin to start a family
Negotiating this stage is successful, we can
experience intimacy on a deep level
If not successful, isolation and distance from
others may occur
Significant relationship is with our marital
partners and friends
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Work is most crucial
When we tend to be occupied with creative
and meaningful work
Transmit values of culture through the family
Working on establishing a stable environment
Generativity-strength through care of other
and production of something that contributes
to a betterment of society
Fear inactivity and meaninglessness
Significant relationship within the workplace,
the community and famiily
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Recovering from much of life
Integrity-able to look back on our lives with
happiness and are content, feeling fulfilled
with a deep sense that life has meaning and
have made a contribution to life
Strength comes from wisdom
May fear death as they struggle to find a
purpose in their lives and feel despair
Significant relationship is with all of
mankind-”my-kind”
Stage (Age)
Psychologic
al Crisis
Significant
Relations
Psychosocial
Modalities
Psychosocial
Virtues
I (0-1)-Infant Trust vs.
mistrust
Mother
To get, to give
in return
Hope, faith
II (2-3)Toddler
Autonomy
vs. shame
and doubt
Parents
To hold on, to
let go
Will,
determination
III (3-6Preschooler
Initiative vs.
guilt
Family
To go after, to
play
Purpose,
courage
IV (7-12(School-age
Child
Industry vs.
inferiority
Neighborhood
and school
To complete, to
make things
together
Competence
V(12-18)Adolescence
Ego-identity Peer groups,
vs. rolerole models
confusion
To be oneself,
Fidelity, loyalty
to share oneself
VI (the 20’s)- Intimacy vs.
Young Adult isolation
Partners,
friends
To lose and
find oneself in
another
love
VII (late 20’s
to 50’s)middle adult
Household,
workmates
To make be, to
take care of
care
Generativity
vs. selfabsorption
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Enrich Your Life and Your Relationshipshttp://www.support4change.com/index.php?
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Personality theorieshttp://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/erikson.ht
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Bio .True Storyhttp://www.biography.com/people/erik-herikson-37751
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Brief Biography of Erik Eriksonhttp://www.ericberne.com/people/erik_eriks
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