High School Academics

1. Erik Erikson
• Child Development
• Grade Level 10-12
• Graves County High School
• Cyndee Carman

2. Erik Erikson’s Theory of
Personality Development
• Life is a series of 8 stages from birth to
death
• Must meet challenge of each stage.
• How you meet challenge affects personality
development.

3. Stage 1: Trust and Mistrust
Birth to One Year
• Love, affection and
stable environment
result in security.
• Security allows babies
to trust others.
• Mistreated, abused or
neglected = mistrust.

4. Stage 2: Autonomy and Doubt
Ages One to Three
• Seek to control self
and environment.
• Freedom to explore =
self confidence.
• No freedom = feeling
of worthlessness.

5. Stage 3: Initiative and Guilt
Ages Three to Five
• Bundles of energy, full of initiative.
• Master peer relationships and language.
• Activities = good play skills

6. Stage 4: Industry and Inferiority
Ages Six to Eleven
• Working hard , like sense of
accomplishment.
• Learning work is worthwhile.
• Self discipline and talents.
• No work = feeling of inferiority.

7. Stage 5: Identity and Identity
Confusion
Ages Twelve to Eighteen
• Build sense of identity/self.
• Who they are, what they want to do, what
they believe in.
• No identity = identity confusion

8. Stage 6: Intimacy and Isolation
Ages Nineteen to Thirty five
• Work to build
intimacy and mutual
caring.
• Marriage and children.
• No intimacy =
loneliness and
isolation.

9. Stage 7: Generativity and
Stagnation
Ages Thirty five to Fifty
• Contributing something
lasting to world.
• Raise children, activities,
community service.
• Unable to contribute =
boredom, restlessness,
feeling that life is useless.

10. Stage 8: Integrity and Despair
Ages Fifty and Up
• Look back on life with
contentment.
• Good perspective on
life.
• No integrity = despair.

11. Summary
• No one moves through all 8 stages with
only successes.
• Successes need to outnumber the failures.
• Can become stuck in a stage.
• Struggle to create a healthy personality is
what makes life satisfying.