PSY 505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Oedipus Complex, Toilet Training, Psychological Types

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 505
• Professor: Paul Brunet

Document Summary

Trained in the freudian tradition by freud"s daughter anna, erikson developed an approach to personality that broadened the scope of freud"s work while maintaining its core. He extended freud"s theory in three ways: he elaborated on freud"s stages of development, he placed greater emphasis on the ego, he recognized the impact on personality of cultural and historical forces. Psychosocial stages of development: 8 successive stages encompassing the life span; at each stage, we must cope with a crisis in either an adaptive or maladaptive way. Epigenetic principle of maturation: the idea that human development is governed by a sequence of stages that depend on genetic or hereditary factors. Crisis: the turning point faced at each developmental stage. Basic strength: motivating characteristics and beliefs that derive from the satisfactory resolution of the crisis at each developmental stage. Erikson emphasized psychosocial correlates, rather than biological factors.