HDFS 1060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Maladaptation, Weaning, Age 13

• School: UConn
• Department: Human Development and Family Studies
• Course: HDFS 1060
• Professor: Ronald Sabatelli

Document Summary

Erik erikson"s eight stages of psychosocial development: Erikson"s concept crucially incorporated cultural and social aspects into freud"s biological and sexually oriented theory. Erikson"s psychosocial theory basically asserts that people experience eight "psychosocial crisis stages" which significantly affect each person"s development and personality. Erikson"s "psychosocial" term is derived from psychological (or the root, "psycho" relating to the mind, brain, personality, etc) and social (external relationships and environment). Occasionally you"ll see the term extended to biopsychosocial, in which bio refers to life, as in biological. Each stage involves a crisis of two opposing emotional forces. A helpful term used by erikson for these opposing forces is "contrary dispositions". Each crisis stage relates to a corresponding life stage and its inherent challenges. Erikson used the words "syntonic" for the first-listed "positive" disposition in each crisis (e. g. , trust) and "dystonic" for the second-listed "negative" disposition (e. g. ,