Stages Per Person

3.Learning initiatives versus guilt(Purpose) three- six years

Erikson believes that this third psychosocial crisis occurs during what he calls the “play age” and the developed child learns:

* To imagine, to broaden his skills through active play of all sorts, including fantasy.

* To cooperate with others

* To lead as well as follow

* If the child is immobilized by guilt, he is fearful, hangs on the fringes of groups, continues to depend unduly on adults, and is restricted both in development of play skills and in imagination.

4. Industry versus inferiority (Competence) 5.5 – 12 years

* Erikson believes that the fourth psychosocial crisis is handled, for better or worse, during what he calls the “school age”. Here the child learns formal skills of life like:

* Relating with peers according to rules.

* Processing from free play that may be elaborately structured by rules and my demand formal teamwork.

* Mastering social studies, reading, and math at school and creating self-disciplined approaches to learning.

* The developed child is trusting, autonomous, fill of initiatives and will learn easily enough to be industrious. However, the mistrusting child will doubt the future. The shame and guilt – filled child will experience defeat and inferiority.

5. Learning Identity versus Identity diffusion (Fidelity) 12- 20 years

During the fifth psychosocial crisis the adolescent learns how to answer satisfactorily and happily, the question of “who am I”? .But even the best-adjusted teenager experience some role identity problems and start rebelling and filling with self-doubt. The young acquires self-certainty as opposed to self-consciousness and self-doubt.

6. Learning Intimacy versus Isolation (Love) 18 +

The successful young adult, for the first time they can experience true intimacy – the sort of intimacy that makes possible good marriage or a genuine and enduring friendship.

7. Generatively versus Self-absorption...