Analyzing Erikson's Eight Stages Of Human Development
Erik Erikson was a behavioural psychologist who believed that behaviour and personality of a person is determined by how well they dealt with conflicts throughout the previous stages of their life. According to him there are 8 stages of human development that are guided by age groups. The 8 of stages are:
• Trust vs mistrust (infancy) – infants are vulnerable beings and they depend on their primary care givers to take care of them. The virtue will be hope and the outcomes would be trust or mistrust.
• Autonomy vs shame and doubt (toddlerhood) - this is a stage where a person will begin to explore and start becoming independent e.g. walking and picking up their toys. The outcome would be self-control or self-doubt
• initiative vs guilt(pre-school …show more content…
When she heard the news she went into a state of shock, she could not believe it because it was unexpected. She expressed the first phase of numbness by not crying at all. She withdrew from everyone and started spending time in her room. This is the behaviour that demonstrates the first stage of numbness. When Sharon managed to get herself out of the numbness phase by the help of friends and church members she started the second phase of grief which is searching and pinning. She exhibited this phase by going through Doug’s clothes and trying them on. She would also smell them which would take her aback to the times that her husband was still alive. When the reality of the death of her husband sank in she went into the depression phase. She would get angry easily and she would shout at the kids unnecessarily. She soon realised that she was letting herself and her children down since she was the only parent they had left. She made the decision to change and she moved on to the last phase (Recovery). She took out all of Doug’s clothes because that’s what was making her hold on to him, she donated them to the old people’s home. She went back to work and bought her family back together
• Trust vs mistrust (infancy) – infants are vulnerable beings and they depend on their primary care givers to take care of them. The virtue will be hope and the outcomes would be trust or mistrust.
• Autonomy vs shame and doubt (toddlerhood) - this is a stage where a person will begin to explore and start becoming independent e.g. walking and picking up their toys. The outcome would be self-control or self-doubt
• initiative vs guilt(pre-school …show more content…
When she heard the news she went into a state of shock, she could not believe it because it was unexpected. She expressed the first phase of numbness by not crying at all. She withdrew from everyone and started spending time in her room. This is the behaviour that demonstrates the first stage of numbness. When Sharon managed to get herself out of the numbness phase by the help of friends and church members she started the second phase of grief which is searching and pinning. She exhibited this phase by going through Doug’s clothes and trying them on. She would also smell them which would take her aback to the times that her husband was still alive. When the reality of the death of her husband sank in she went into the depression phase. She would get angry easily and she would shout at the kids unnecessarily. She soon realised that she was letting herself and her children down since she was the only parent they had left. She made the decision to change and she moved on to the last phase (Recovery). She took out all of Doug’s clothes because that’s what was making her hold on to him, she donated them to the old people’s home. She went back to work and bought her family back together