Summative Assessment-Pyschosocial Stages of Development

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1 Summative Assessment: Psychosocial Stages of Development Amber Landis University of Phoenix Psych/645 Paula Krasselt April 1, 2024

2 Psychosocial Stages of Development Erik Erikson’s psychosocial stages of development are separated into eight distinct stages. Those stages are infancy, early childhood, play age, school age, adolescence, early adulthood, middle age, and old age (Mcleod, 2024) . It is during these various stages that an individual will experience a conflict between two opposing states that will end up shaping their personality. Success of conflict resolution helps lead to virtues like hope, will, purpose, and integrity (Mcleod, 2024) . Whereas failure to resolve the conflict can lead to mistrust, guilt, and despair. Interviews There were two individuals that were chosen to be interviewed for two completely various stages of development. The first individual, Mary, is in her old age stage of development. The other individual is Autumn, she is in her adolescence stage of development. We will be able to see how different life is between the two stages. Mary Mary was born in 1951 and will be turning seventy-three this June (A. Landis, personal communication, March 27, 2024). She is currently in her old age stage of life, ego integrity versus despair. This is a time when people start to reflect on what they have done and accomplished in their life. They are either at peace with their accomplishments or they have left things unfinished. In either case, they do have the opportunity to work towards accomplishing their goals (Mcleod, 2024) . Those who are accepting of who they are and what they have accomplished have ego integrity. Those who question what they have done with their life and have not met their life goals are in denial (Mcleod, 2024) . They can still get to ego integrity; they just need to accept what they have done or complete their goals.

3 Mary’s Strength Mary’s strength is that she has ego integrity without having completely accomplished her goal just yet. She is working to get her house paid off, a huge accomplishment that she can still complete (Mcleod, 2024) . She is immensely proud of what she has accomplished in her life, even without the payments being completed (A. Landis, personal communication, March 27, 2024). This is because she set herself up for success regardless of the outcome. She can get the house paid off before she passes but then at passing if the house is not paid off then the insurance will pay off the remainder of the loan. Mary wanted to make sure that her family did not need to worry about the house payment once she passed (A. Landis, personal communication, March 27, 2024). She also did not start the home buying process until she was middle age. Meaning that based on her loan terms she would be paying for 30 years, and she is on track to have it paid off as originally planned and reaching that long-term goal (A. Landis, personal communication, March 27, 2024). Mary’s Crisis Mary is at that age where she is content with if death were to happen now but does not want to pass away and leave behind family. She is not in denial because of this (Mcleod, 2024) . She could have succeeded in her goals far sooner than she is going to, but she put her family ahead of her goals. She took care of everything for her girls, daughter, and granddaughters (A. Landis, personal communication, March 27, 2024). If she had not been put in the situations she was and charged up her credit card paying everything she did, she would have been able to put those funds into her house and not outrageous interest on a credit card balance. It was those times

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4 she was able to help is one of the things that gives her a sense of accomplishment in her life (A. Landis, personal communication, March 27, 2024). She was able to make sure everyone had their necessities and safe space. Autumn Autumn is in her adolescence stage of development. She will be turning sixteen later this week and is quite the force to be reckoned with (A. Landis, personal communication, March 27, 2024). Autumn is a child who has managed to still do a couple of things that most kids end up doing but while never losing sight of her dreams and still striving to reach those goals she has set in place. It is during the adolescence stage that the child is going through identity versus confusion (A. Landis, personal communication, March 27, 2024). It is during these years that one will experiment and be shaped into who they will be during their early adulthood (Mcleod, 2024) . Autumn’s Strength Autumn’s strength is her sheer drive and tenacity. She found what she wanted to do with her life and did not allow even the peer pressure around her to deter her from reaching her goals in life. She has made it noticeably clear that even though she has chosen to try drinking and the use of marijuana, she did not like it and has no intention of using either again (A. Landis, personal communication, March 27, 2024). She also knows that the use of these could keep her from achieving her goals of being employed and working for the NBA one day. Autumn’s Crisis It appears that even though Autumn has her stuff together better than most adults. She is still finding herself and growing into the person she is going to become (A. Landis, personal communication, March 27, 2024) . She is strong-willed and that allows her to overcome all

5 obstacles she comes across. The one thing is she thinks she is ready for what all adulthood brings with it but is not at that emotional compacity yet to manage it. Even her guidance counselor agrees that she is going to go far but is not emotionally ready to be where she mentally wants to be (A. Landis, personal communication, March 27, 2024) . This will come with time and her resolving any remaining conflicts she has. Thoughts I do agree with what all comes from Erickson’s theory and psychosocial development stages. Does it look the same for everyone, no it does not. This is what makes this theory work so well. Everyone moves through life at a different pace and stage. No two will look identical and this is because everyone’s conflicts are different. These conflicts help shape and mold them. We see this throughout development. It clearly shows for Mary and Autumn. Autumn is still making her way through adolescence and with the strongest of wills and resilience most have seen. Mary is enjoying retirement and everything it has to offer while still working towards her biggest goal in life. She may be content and happy, but she shows that strong will and drive that her great granddaughter has.

6 References Navidad, A. E. (2023, September 23). Stanford Marshmallow Test Experiment . Simply Psychology. https://www.simplypsychology.org/marshmallow-test.html

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