📌 Successfully resolving a psychosocial crisis supports a healthy personality and the acquisition of basic virtues, whereas failing to resolve it can create a fixation that affects later behavior and personality. — Erik Erikson
Eight crises unfold from infancy to late adulthood, each leading toward a virtue.
📌 During Stage 1, Trust versus Mistrust from birth to 2 years, consistent, predictable, and loving caregiving fosters trust, while inadequate security can produce mistrust, fear, and insecurity.
1. What is a likely consequence when a psychosocial crisis is not successfully resolved?
2. Which response best reflects integrity during Stage 8, Integrity versus Despair?
3. What is most likely to foster initiative during Stage 3?
What is psychosocial development according to Erik Erikson?
The predetermined progression of personality development across eight stages from infancy to late adulthood.
What does each psychosocial stage involve according to Erik Erikson?
A crisis between two opposing tendencies.
What can each psychosocial stage produce?
A distinctive psychological quality or virtue.
What supports a healthy personality in psychosocial development?
Successfully resolving a psychosocial crisis.
What results from failing to resolve a psychosocial crisis?
A fixation that affects later behavior and personality.
What fosters trust during Stage 1 from birth to 2 years?
Consistent, predictable, and loving caregiving fosters trust.
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