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| fifth stage of development |
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| seventh stage of development |
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| ritualization characterizing the sixth stage of development. This involves sharing one's identity with fellow humans in a caring, productive way, for example, by entering into an intimate relationship with someone who has also gained an identity |
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| Freud thought many important personality traits were determined by one's gender. Erikson believed the same but thought that one's culture was another powerful influence. He did not consider men or women's traits to be better than the other. |
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| ritualization characterizing the third stage of development. This involves playful role playing to discover possible ways of living one's adult life |
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| ritualism that can occur during the seventh stage of development. this involves using power for selfish gains instead of helping others |
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| sense of being relatively independent of external control, which arises if the crises dominating the second stage of development is resolved positively |
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| lack of trust in the world and the people in it, which arises if the crisis dominating the first stage of development is resolved negatively |
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| general feeing of trust in the world and the people in it, which arises if the crisis dominating the first stage of development is resolved positively |
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| virtue that arise when a person leaves the seventh stage of development with a greater sense of generativity than of stagnation |
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| virtue that arises if a child leaves the fourth stage of development with a great sense of industry than of inferiority |
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| conflict that becomes dominant during a particular stage of development that can be resolved positively, thus strengthening the ego, or resolved negative, thus weakening the ego. Each of these, therefore, is a turning point in one's development |
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| for Erikson, a version of human existence |
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| lack of satisfaction with life and the fear of death, which characterize the person who has negatively resolved the crisis that dominates the eighth and final stage of development |
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| the second stage of development |
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| the satisfaction with life and the lack of fear of death that characterize the person who has positively resolved the crisis that dominates the eighth and final stage of development |
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| theoretical system that stresses the importance of the go as an autonomous part of the personality instead of viewing the ego as merely the servant of the id |
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| ritualism that can occur during the sixth stage of development. this involves the superficial relationships with groups of like-minded individuals that people without identities seek |
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| the innate biological principle that determines the sequence in which the eight stages of psychosocial development occurs |
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| virtue that arises at the end of the fifth stage of development if one has a sense of identity instead of role confusion |
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| ritualism that can occur during the fourth stage. this involves a preoccupation with how things work, or with one's work, and a disregard for the reasons why things function as they do or why various types of jobs exist |
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| ritualization corresponding to the fourth stage of development. this involves learning how various things work in one's culture |
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| ritualization that characterizes the seventh stage of development. this involves the many ways in which healthy individuals help younger people to have experiences conducive to healthy personality growth |
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| impulse to help members of the next generation that arises when the crisis dominating the seventh stage of development is resolved positively |
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| general feeling that develops in a child if the crisis dominating the third stage of development is resolved negatively |
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| virtue that arises if a child leaves the first stage of development with more basic trust than basic mistrust |
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aka ego identity
sense of knowing who you are and where you are going in life that develops when the fifth stage of development is resolved positively. The emergence of this marks the end of childhood and the beginning of adulthood.
** probably Erikson's most famous concept |
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| crisis that dominates the fifth stage of development, which results either in the person gaining an identity (positive resolution) or in the role of confusion (negative resolution) |
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| ritualization characterizing the fifth stage of development. This involves embracing a philosophy of life that makes one's past, present, and future meaningful |
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| ritualism that can occur during the first stage of development where instead of a child learning a warm, positive feeling toward others, he or she tends to worship them |
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| ritualism that can occur during the third stage of development. This involves confusing playing a role with one's true personality |
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| sense of enjoyment from work and from sustained attention, which arises if the crisis dominating the fourth stage of development is resolved negatively |
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| the first stage of development |
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| loss of confidence in one's ability to become a contributing member of one's society, which arises if the crisis dominating the fourth stage of development is resolved negatively |
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| general ability to initiate ideas and actions and to plan future events, which arises if the crisis dominating the third stage of development is resolved positively |
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| ritualization characterizing the eighth stage of development. This involves the wisdom to pace one's own life in a larger perspective, that is, to see one's finite life as contributing to immortal culture |
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| ability to merge one's identity with that of another person, which arises if the crisis dominating the sixth stage of development is resolved positively |
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| inability to share one's identity with that of another person, which arises if the crisis dominating the sixth stage of development is resolved negatively |
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| ritualization characterizing the second stage of development. This involves the many ways that children learn right from wrong |
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| ritualism that can occur during the second stage of development. This involves the preoccupation with rules and regulations themselves instead of with what they were designed to accomplish |
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| virtue that arises if one leaves the sixth stage of development with a greater sense of intimacy than of isolation |
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| identity contrary to the goals of society. negative identities are all those roles that a child is warned not to assume |
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| ritualization characterizing the first stage of development. this involves the many culturally determined ways in which mother and infant interact |
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| the eighth stage of development |
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| the third stage of development |
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| term used to describe Erikson's use of his developmental theory of personality to analyze historical figures |
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| time during the fifth stage of development when the adolescent is searching for an identity |
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| psychosocial stages of development |
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| Erikson's eight stages of human development, so named to emphasize the importance of social experience to the resolution of the crises that characterize each stage |
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| virtue that arises if a child eaves the third stage of development with greater sense of initiative than of guilt |
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| distorted or exaggerated ritualizations |
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| behaviors that reflect and thereby perpetuate the beliefs, customs, and values that are sanctioned by a particular culture |
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| the state produced by not acquiring an identity during the fifth stage of development. the state is characterized by an inability to choose a defining role in life and represents the negative resolution of the identity crisis |
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| ritualism that can occur during the eighth stage of development. this involves the pretense of being wise |
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| the fourth stage of development |
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| feelings that develop instead of the feeling of autonomy when the crisis dominating the second stage of development is resolved negatively |
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| lack of concern about the next generation that characterizes the person whose crisis during the seventh stage of development is resolved negatively |
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| ritualism that can occur during the fifth stage of development. this involves embracing simplistic ideas mouthed by various "heroes" because those ideas may temporarily make life more tolerable |
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| ego strength that arises when the crisis dominating a stage of development is resolved positively |
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| virtue that arises if the child leaves the second stage of development with a greater sense of autonomy than of shame and doubt |
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| virtue that arises if a person has more ego integrity than despair during the eighth and final stage of development |
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| the sixth stage of development |
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