Erik Erikson. By: Allison Gross. Erik Erikson was a psychosocial theorist who was heavily influenced by Sigmund Freud. He studied the impact of external factors on a child’s developing personality. He believed that humans develop in eight stages starting when they are born to when they die.
By: Allison Gross
This when feeding often occurs because children learn to trust their caregivers.
Children develop a sense of personal control over physical skills. Toilet Training often occurs in this stage.
Children begin to explore and feel control over their environment. Success leads to a sense of purpose while failure leads to a sense of guilt from power exertion.
This is when children begin school and they must adjust to new levels of learning and understanding. Success leads to competence and failure leads to feelings of inferiority.
This is when social relationships begin to develop along with a sense of self and personal identity. Success gives the ability to stay true to yourself and failure leads to role confusion and a weak sense of self.
This is when intimate, loving relationships begin to develop. Success leads to strong relationships and failure results in lonliness.
Work and Parenthood begin in this stage. Adults begin to nurture things that may outlast them, like having children. Success gives a feeling of usefulness and failure is a shallow involvement in the world.
This is when adults begin to look back at their lives with a sense of fulfillment and reflect. Success will lead to feeling of wisdom and failure may result in regret, bitterness, or despair.