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Erikson’s theory of personality is based on his eight stages of development. In each of these eight stages of

Broderick and Blewitt (2015) state how Erikson’s theory addresses the human characteristics such as maturity, cognitive changes, motor skills, attitudes, behaviors, and expectations throughout development. All these characteristics are concerns clients confront professional counselors about. Depending on the age, counselors can study the personality theory to indicate the significant event the client is experiencing. An example of a significant event would be a 17-year-old male who feels unsure towards his beliefs and desires. This stage is called “Identity Verses Role Confusion”. Broderick and Blewitt (2015) explain that this stage is where an adolescent might feel confused about their career path, which social group to associate with, and

Dr. Whitbourne refers to the well-known psychologist Erik Erikson throughout the article. First, the author explained Erikson’s personality stages that express valid stages from the time one is born to the time they die. However, what was mainly focused on was the fifth crisis, “Identity Achievement vs. Identity Diffusion,” which described the personality deviations from the beginning of adolescence. The author affirmed that this stage is the timeframe where teens being to experience major personality changes which are mostly linked to puberty. Dr. Whitbourne, further informed readers about the causes of these changes by stating that “Teenagers experience rapid changes in body build, hormones, emotions, and cognitive abilities. Perhaps

Erik Erikson (1902 -1994) was a German and he developed theory of psychosocial development which described growth and change throughout the lifespan, focusing on

As determined by Erickson, an individual must meet phases in order to develop and progress through a healthy personality from birth to death. Erikson accomplishes this by using biological theories concentrated on critical phases of growth and epigenesis. As each phase is met, the individual can successfully move on to the next phase according to the individual’s age. Each psychosocial phase presents with satisfactory and unsatisfactory outcomes. Progression will be dependent upon resolution of the current phase the individual is in. If the conflict is not resolved, the individual will carry this conflict on through subsequent phases throughout the individual’s life. According to Erikson, development will be determined on how well the individual handles conflict within each phase. There are eight phases of psychosocial development, and only the first five phases are directly related to childhood (Perry, Hockenberry, Lowdermilk, and Wilson, 2014, p.757).

The three theories I have chosen to discuss are all extremely relevant ideas; although I prefer Erik Erikson’s stage of psychosocial development. Erik Erikson’s theory covers a person’s entire lifespan showing the many different stages throughout one’s life. A person is always

Erikson focused on the various stages of personality development throughout the entire lifespan. “Erikson maintained that personality develops in a predetermined order, builds upon each previous stage.” (McLeod, 2013) The eight stages begin at birth up and expand into maturity which is 65 years old and older. Erikson felt that a crisis occurs at each stage of development and he focuses a lot on the adolescent period.

The first approach in understanding such a peculiar man will be to insert his life into a series of events and match that to Erik Erikson’s Life-Span Developmental process. As it is widely believed, we develop a personality, rather an identity, derived from the eight stages throughout life; that of which molds us into the person that we become (Erickson 1963, 1978).

1902-1994” Erik Erikson – Erikson changed the way of thinking around the development of children. His theory was that child’s personality develops through the social influences throughout one’s life. His theory was that there are 8 stages in life that people encounter and through these stages, if resolved, one will continue to mature in their social development and one’s personality throughout life, not just through single events.

One of the most important models that exists in education is how the brain learns and stores information. Knowing this information allows teachers to plan successful lessons for students to learn. Dr. David A. Sousa explains these two processes through a model with different visuals to represent how the short-term and long-term memory store information. The brain learns through the senses, and in order, most people learn best through sight, then hearing, then touching. Short-term memory is what we consider to be temporary, and it has a short span of time where it can adequately remember information. The short-term memory can also be interrupted in the case of a distraction in the classroom. The two separate parts in short-term memory are immediate

Erik Erikson believe that childhood is very important in personality development. He created a theory of psychosocial development that covers an entire life. I believe that Erik Erikson did a great job on creating these stages.

Erikson is most famous for his expansion and refinement of Freud’s theories of personality development. Erikson argued that development functions by the epigenetic principle, which says that we develop through a predetermined unfolding of our personalities in eight stages throughout our lifespan. As we progress through each stage our success, or lack of success, in each stage is partially determined by our achievements in the previous stage. Erikson believed that each person has a unique personality, which gradually reveals itself through eight stages, and if we interfere with the progress of our personality development (try to speed things up) we may ruin the development of that individual’s personality. Each stage involves certain developmental tasks that are psychosocial in nature. Erikson coined the term identity crisis, a personal psychosocial conflict that shaped a distinct aspect of personality (“Erikson,” Britannica). The various tasks are referred to by two terms, the first is what the individual is striving to achieve and the second is what the individual is at risk of developing if he or she does not successfully achieve the first term. Each stage has an optimal time to be achieved as well. Each individual has his or her own pace to go through life; therefore, the optimal time to achieve a stage in is more of a general guideline. If a stage is managed well, we carry

Erik Erikson was a German developmental psychologist who believed that personalities are developed through a progression of stages that necessitate conflicts which need to be resolved before one is capable of accomplishing the next stage in development. The principal component of Erikson's Theory of Infant and Toddler Personality is that through socially interacting with others, infants and toddlers will blossom developing a healthy personality.  In infancy, Erikson believed that proper care will result in a healthy child. For a toddler to be successful in his or her development, an awareness of independence and self-control is imperative.

A theory can be defined as a set of ideas that helps us to understand, explain, predict, and control situations. A person’s personality is often known as what makes them who they are. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a persons’ personality as, “the set of emotional qualities, ways of behaving, etc., that makes a person different from other people.” Now, putting those two concepts together, this paper will discuss personality theory. There are six major ideas that make up the basics of personality theory. The six major ideas that make up the basics of personality theory are, nature versus nurture, the unconscious, view of self, development, motivation, and maturation. These six ideas can also be categorized into two

Before I go into the details of my observations I am going to explain Erickson’s Stages of Psychosocial development. These include, stage one: Trust versus mistrust, Stage two: Autonomy versus doubt, Stage three: Initiative versus guilt, Stage four: Industry versus inferiority, Stage five: Identity versus role confusion, Stage six: Intimacy versus isolation, Stage seven: Generativity versus stagnation, and finally Stage eight: Integrity versus despair. Stage one takes place from when a child is born until the age of one. In stage one “the infant is uncertain about the world in which they live”. (Saul