The document outlines Erik Erikson's 5 stages of psychosocial development, including Basic Trust vs. Mistrust in infancy, Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt in early childhood, Initiative vs. Guilt in preschool age, Industry vs. Inferiority in school age children, and Identity vs. Role Confusion in adolescence. It provides a brief description of each stage and the potential psychological impacts of not developing properly during each respective life phase. The document appears to be class notes outlining Erikson's theory of psychosocial development for EDTE 314 taught by Dr. Love during spring 2013.

1. EDTE 314, Section 1
Professor: Dr. Love
Spring 2013 – Week 3
Nick Adler
Ali Gregory
Maureen Joy McGriff

2. 1. Basic Trust vs. Basic Mistrust 2. Autonomy vs. Shame & Doubt
•The first demonstration of •Shame is the idea of being
social trust in the baby is the exposed or self conscious of
ease of feeding, depth of sleep, being judged for your actions
and the relaxation of their
bowels •Doubt is the idea of
questioning any action of
•The first trusting achievement whether or not it will lead to
is to let the mother out of shame
his/her sight without undue rage
or anxiety •If the child does not develop
correctly during this stage it is
•If the child is unable to make possible that they will doubt
trusting relationships during this and in turn be shameful of
stage it is possible that the child many of their thoughts or
will become neurotic and action, preventing autonomy
unable to make trusting
relationships later in life

3. 3. Initiative vs. Guilt 4. Industry vs. Inferiority
•Initiative adds quality to • As children begin to attend
autonomy. It adds the quality of school, they must learn to work
choosing, planning, and finishing more and play less.
tasks.
•The issue at this stage of • If the child finds the work to be
development is if the child begins challenging, then the child may
to find a sense of guilt over the begin to feel inferior to those who
goals being thought of and are succeeding.
performed
•This sense of guilt can cause the • Moreover, at this stage, children
child to question all tasks are expected to deal with other
performed to avoid feeling guilty new pressures such as being
placed in a new environment.

4. 5. Identity vs. Role Confusion
• In this stage, an adolescent starts
to realize who they are.
• All previous stages were things
mostly done to a child, but at this
point, the child begins to create
who they want to be.
• Failure to identify one’s self can
result in can result in the person
feeling as if they do not belong and
can trouble the person in other
stages.

5. • Which stage (age) do you feel is the most important for
cognitive development?
• What will be a disadvantage of not developing in certain
area? Please use specific examples.
• What do you think is the most important aspect of each
stage? Why ?