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Erik Erikson's Psychosocial Development - Coggle Diagram
Erik Erikson's Psychosocial Development
Stages of Psychosocial Development
Stage 4: Industry vs. Inferiority
Takes place during the early school years from approximately ages 5 to 11.
Through social interactions, children begin to develop a sense of pride in their accomplishments and abilities.
Children need to cope with new social and academic demands.
Stage 5: Identity vs. Confusion
Takes place during the often turbulent teenage years.
This stage plays an essential role in developing a sense of personal identity which will continue to influence behavior and development for the rest of a person's life.
Teens need to develop a sense of self and personal identity.
Stage 3: Initiative vs. Guilt
Takes place during the preschool years.
Children begin to assert their power and control over the world through directing play and other social interactions.
Children who are successful at this stage feel capable and able to lead others.
Stage 6: Intimacy vs. Isolation
Young adults need to form intimate, loving relationships with other people.
This stage covers the period of early adulthood when people are exploring personal relationships.
Success leads to strong relationships, while failure results in loneliness and isolation.
Stage 2: Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt
Children are just starting to gain a little independence.
They are starting to perform basic actions on their own and making simple decisions about what they prefer.
Takes place during early childhood and is focused on children developing a greater sense of personal control.
Stage 7: Generativity vs. Stagnation
Adults need to create or nurture things that will outlast them, often by having children or creating a positive change that benefits other people.
Success leads to feelings of usefulness and accomplishment, while failure results in shallow involvement in the world.
During adulthood, we continue to build our lives, focusing on our career and family.
Stage 1: Trust vs. Mistrust
At this point in development, the child is utterly dependent upon adult caregivers for everything they need to survive including food, love, warmth, safety, and nurturing.
Occurs between birth and 1 year of age and is the most fundamental stage in life because an infant is utterly dependent, developing trust is based on the dependability and quality of the child's caregivers.
Stage 8: Integrity vs. Despair
People look back on the events of their lives and determine if they are happy with the life that they lived or if they regret the things they did or didn't do.
Occurs during old age and is focused on reflecting back on life.
Teaching and learning activities in classroom
Let the students choose a couple of characters from television and discuss whether their behavior seems to fit into Erikson’s stages of development based on the character’s approximate age- why and why not.
Let the students to think about and write, draw, use magazine pictures, etc. to express their own past present and future lives and then ask them to form a group of four and tell the story of their past, present and future, explaining how they see the most important aspects of their lives..
Ask students to imagine themselves 40 years in the future and having their favorite grandchild on their knee.
Ask students to write down the craziest, wackiest, and most dangerous things they did as an adolescent.
Let the students identify an incident in their own life that demonstrates each of the earlier stages.