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By: Heidi Tenney

2.  Explains eight stages
that a healthy human
should pass through
during childhood all the
way through adulthood.
 In each stage a person
should find new
challenges & hopefully
succeed through them.

3.  Trust vs. Mistrust
 Autonomy vs. Shame &
Doubt
 Initiative vs. Guilt
 Industry vs. inferiority
 Identity vs. Identity
Confusion
 Intimacy vs. Isolation
 Generativity vs. Stagnation
 Integrity vs. Despair

4.  Approximate Age:
o Birth-1 ½ years
 Positive Outcomes:
o Feelings of trust from environmental
support
 Negative Outcomes:
o Fear & concern regarding others

5.  Approximate Age:
o 1 ½ -3 years
 Positive Outcomes:
o Self-sufficiency if exploration is
encouraged
 Negative Outcomes:
o Doubts about self, lack of independence

6.  Approximate Age:
o 3-6 years
 Positive Outcomes:
o Discovery of ways to initiate
actions
 Negative Outcomes:
o Guilt from actions and thoughts

7.  Approximate Age:
o 6-12 years
 Positive Outcomes:
o Development of sense of
competence
 Negative Outcomes:
o Feelings of inferiority, no sense of
mastery

8.  Approximate Age:
o Adolescence
 Positive Outcomes:
o Awareness of uniqueness of self, knowledge of role to be
followed
 Negative Outcomes:
o Inability to identify appropriate roles in life

9.  Approximate Age:
o Early adulthood
 Positive Outcomes:
o Development of loving, sexual
relationships, and close friendships
 Negative Outcomes:
o Fear of relationships with others

10.  Approximate Age:
o Middle Adulthood
 Positive Outcomes:
o Sense of contribution to continuity of
life
 Negative Outcomes:
o Trivialization of one’s activities

11.  Approximate Age:
o Late adulthood
 Positive Outcomes:
o Sense of unity in life’s
accomplishments
 Negative Outcomes:
o Regret over lost opportunities of life

12.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erikson%27s_stages_of_psy
chosocial_development
 http://psychology.about.com/od/psychosocialtheories/tp/
psychosocial-stages.htm
 http://www.cals.uidaho.edu/feeding/forparents/pdfs/2_1%
20Erikson.pdf
 http://www.psychpage.com/learning/library/person/erikso
n.html