PSY 3010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Middle Ages, Extraversion And Introversion, Neuroticism
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Normative-crisis: views personality development in terms of fairly universal stages, tied to a sequence of age- related crises. Suggests particular life even determine course of personality development: changes in society call into question normative-crisis models that are closely tied to age. Suggest that timing of particular events in adult"s life, rather than age per se, determine course of personality development. Generativity versus stagnation: generativity = looking beyond oneself to continuation of one"s life through others, critics argue that normative-crisis models are outdated; model came from time when gender. Stagnation = focusing on the triviality of their life roles were more rigid: building on erikson"s views: gould, vaillant, and levinson, psychiatrist roger gould. Adults pass through series of seven, age-related stages: people in late 30s and early 40s begin to feel sense of urgency in attaining life"s goals, descriptions not research supported, gould"s approach, george valliant. Occurs between the ages of 45 and 55.
