PSYB30H3 Chapter 9: PSYB30-Chapter 9.docx
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Characteristic developmental adaptation involves resolution of important life tasks during a particular stage of development. Erik erikson s theory of psychosocial development lays out eight stages of life; what are important are the two stages following early adult stage: intimacy and generativity. Jane loevinger s influential developmental model is a theory of the development of the ego; the ego is a person s characteristic manner of making sense of experience. For erikson, becoming a naturalized american is a highly symbolic event that marked the maturation of his own identity. Freud used the word libido, which is the energy that he believed derives from sexual drives; he set forth five stages, and in each stage there are erogenous zones, that the libido expresses itself. Erikson took the stages of the libido and transformed them into a developmental model of psychosocial tasks.
