Personality & Personal Growth Ch 6 Erik Erikson
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- psychohistory
- A study that combines the methods of history and psycholalysis to examine individual and collective life.
- initiative v guilt
- 3rd stage: The basic activity is play, virtue strengthened is purpose which is rooted in fantasy and play.
- psychobiography
- The study of a historical figures life fromthe perspectiv of psychoanalysis.
- autonomy v shame and doubt
- 2nd stage: child interacts with the world and a senseof autonomy develops with the sense of free choice. Develops into the basis for adult acknowledgement of a spirit of justice, manifest in the social institution of the law.
- basic trust v basic mistrust
- 1st stage: infant sense of trust in self and in the world develops from the quality of primary care. results in the virtue of hope, which lays the foundation for the development of faith.
- identity crisis
- The loss of ego identiy, a state in which the continuity, sameness, and belief in one's social role has diminished or disappeared.
- generativity v stagnation
- 7th stage: concerns with creativity and productivity in work and in personal life. Care is teh stregth developed at this stage.
- industry v inferiority
- 4th stage: A shift from play to work, virtue of competence is strengthened.
- intimacy v isolation
- 6th stage: Development of a sense of adult responsiblity and independence from parnts and school. Establishment of intimate relationships which from the basis for critical commitment. Love is the virtue strengthened.
- crisis in development
- The turning point at each stage of development in which the skills and stregths of that stage are developed and tested.
- identity v identity confusion
- 5th stage: adolescent questions past role models and identification. Fidelity is the strengthened.
- integrity v despair
- 8th stage: A time of dealing with ultimate concerns. Development of the ability to see one;s life as a whole and in increased sense of perspective. Despair results from having not attained some sense of self acceptance. Wisdom develops out of encounters with both despair and interity.
- identity
- Sense of individuality, continuity, synthesis, and social solidarity.