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Describe the first five stages of Erik Erickson’s Theory of personality.
Solution
Erik Erickson:
Erickson like Homey emphasized (1902-1944) the importance of thinking process of the conscious mind, unlike Freud whose primary focus was an unconscious mind. Erickson developed a new approach to developmental milestones. He introduced eight stages a psychosocial development where he described the 8 chief conflict areas of crises along with their respective favorable and unfavorable outcomes which play a key role in personality development at that particular stage.
| Stage | Crisis | Favourable Outcome | Unfavourable Outcome |
| 1st | Trust vs Mistrust | Faith in the environment and future events | Suspicion fear of future events. |
| 2nd | Autonomy vs Shame and doubt | Asense of self-control and adequacy | Feeling of shame and doubt on self. |
| 3rd | Initiatives vs Guilt | To self start initiate one's own activity | All alone a sense of inadequacy and guilt |
| 4th | Industry vs inferiority | Learns how things work, can understand and organise material | Feels a sense of inferiority in understanding and organising and guilt. |
| 5th | Indentify vs rule confusion | Perceiving oneself as a unique and integrated individual. | Confusion over one really is. |
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