PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Ambivalence, Record Linkage, Erik Erikson
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He thought of the stages a psychosocial, they involve confrontation between the growing individual and societal expectations: favorable balance: the challenge is to balance trust. Failure to develop this results in excess or deficiency, you"ll have to much of the extreme or to little of it. Maladaptation or malignant that we are trying to avoid. Virtue is the middle of the two extremes. The part of yourself that you are aware of. Experience the body and the family and society. Etc: family / society: the child undergoes the development in a family context, what a growing child should or should not be doing. how the body interacts with the family context and how that interacts with the ego. An infants ongoing interactions leads to expectations, the developmental goal is to cultivate a sense of hope, the first virtue we cultivate our first psychosocial strength.
