Theoretical Approaches to Development and Learning Assessment Reports 1‚ 2 and 3 Karen Lindsay Psychosocial Theories of Erik Erikson Erik Erikson was born in Frankfurt‚ Germany in 1902. His association with Psychology began when he met one of our most renowned theorist’s daughters‚ Anna Freud‚ daughter of Sigmund. He was an artist and teacher who through persuasion from Anna went on to study child psychoanalysis at the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute. He continued his studies in the United States
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children and teenagers which continues into adulthood. The presentation is based on the Eight Stages of Development developed by psychiatrist‚ Erik Erikson in 1956. According to Erickson‚ humans move through eight stages of psychosocial development during our lives. Each stage centers around a specific crisis or conflict between competing tendencies. Erikson ’s theory consists of eight stages of development. Each stage is characterized by a different conflict that must be resolved by the individual
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life. Erik Erikson is best known for his stages of psychosocial development and coining the term ‘identity crisis’. Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development is one of the best known theories of personality. Though similar to Freud‚ Erikson believed that personality develops in a series of 8 stages. Unlike Freud’s theory of psychosocial stages‚ Erikson’s theory describes the impact of social experiences across the whole lifespan. Erik Erikson’s Eight Developmental Stages Erik Erikson is one of
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Piaget (1896-1980)‚ Psychosocial theorist Erik Erikson (1902-1994) and Psychosexual theorist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). Let’s have a quick look at each of their biography which will affect their theoretical orientation. Jean Piaget‚ a Swiss psychologist lived from 1896 to 1980. He was from a privileged background and had a brilliant and varied academic career since he was a young boy.1 He used his three children as his research subjects.2 Erik Erikson (1902-1994) was born in Frankfurt‚ Germany. He
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social factors. Psychoanalyst Erik Erikson was the first theorist to view identity this way‚ for Erikson identity consisted of ’a conscious sense of individual uniqueness‚ an unconscious striving for continuity and a solidarity with a groups ideas’ (Erikson cited in Phoenix‚ 2007‚ p.53). He believed that a solid understanding of who we are‚ how we fit in to and are viewed by society forms a core identity‚ which in turn will create a sense of continuity. Erikson lived through two world wars during
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attention from S. Freud’s book Interpretation of Dreams (Erikson 1997). He found the book to be “easily transferred to the observation of children’s play behavior and permitted equal attention” (Erikson 1997). Erikson described the different stages of development for infants through preschoolers. The first stage described for infants was the oral-sensory stage. This stage is dominated by ‘to get’ and ‘getting someone to give what is wished for’” (Erikson 1997). Infants and toddlers go through the “sucking”
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is probably one of the most recognized stages of development theories. Erikson believed that personality develops in a series of stages. Unlike Freud’s theory of psychosexual stages‚ Erikson’s theory describes the impact of social experience across the whole lifespan. One of Erikson’s theories points is ego identity. Ego Identity is the sense of oneself as a distinct continuous entity. (medicaldictionary.com) According to Erikson‚ our ego identity is constantly changing due to new experience and information
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Trauma Theory Psychological trauma can have an everlasting effect on a person’s life. According to Armsworth and Holaday (1993)‚ Psychological trauma occurs when an individual is exposed to an overwhelming event that renders him or her helpless in the face of intolerable danger‚ anxiety‚ and instinctual arousal (p. 49). Anyone no matter what age‚ can experience a traumatic event. However‚ children are the ones mostly affected by a traumatic event. Trauma regardless if it is sexual abuse‚ physical
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evaluate Erikson’s psychosocial stage theory of human development: with particular reference to identity development during adolescence. Erikson is a neo-Freudian‚ who chose not to criticise but to develop Freud’s ideas. Erikson extended many aspects of Freud’s ‘psychosexual stage theory’ within his ‘psychosocial stage theory’ (1975; 1968; 1963). Erikson suggested the ego as the driving force in personality development‚ unlike Freud who suggested this to be the id. There were originally eight
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Erik Erikson is a German psychologist who studied under Freud and later disagreed Freud’s theory. Before Erik was born‚ his father had abandoned his mother which caused some identity problems for him that he was able to resolve later on in life. In addition‚ the reason for his theory mainly has to do with his father not being around. In refining Freud’s theory‚ Erikson assumed that personality developed in eight stages which started from infancy and ending with old age. He believed that each stage
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