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During this stage the child learns to feel either confident or inferior based on external and internal cues of success and/or failure with completing these tasks. (Marlowe & Canestri 112-114) This stage lasts between the ages of 6 years and 12 years of age and is dominated by school. ("Erik Erikson's 8 Stages of Psychosocial Development" (http://web.cortland.edu/andersmd/ERIK/sum.HTML)
5. Identity vs. role confusion, is the stage that corresponds to the ability of an individual to resolve social and personal conflicts with identity, and especially that revolved around sexual identity. This stage dominates the adolescent years as individuals begin to have adult like relationships and conform or reject social roles assigned their gender. As this is the stage at which most children leave the education system it is the last stage discussed in Marlowe and Canestri reading of Erikson. (Marlowe & Canestri 114-116) This role last roughly corresponds with the ages between 12-18 years and revolves around peer relationships and gender roles. ("Erik Erikson's 8 Stages of Psychosocial Development" (http://web.cortland.edu/andersmd/ERIK/sum.HTML)
6. Intimacy vs. isolation, is the stage that roughly corresponds with the ages 19-40 and revolves around the individuals ability to successfully navigate and learn from adult love relationships. ("Erik Erikson's 8 Stages of Psychosocial Development" (http://web.cortland.edu/andersmd/ERIK/sum.HTML)
7. Generativity vs. stagnation, is the...
("Erik Erikson's 8 Stages of Psychosocial Development" (http://web.cortland.edu/andersmd/ERIK/sum.HTML)
8. EgoIntegrity vs. despair is the final stage which corresponds with age 65- death as the individual develops a retrospective since of his or her ability to feel fulfilled with what he or she has completed as an individual. ("Erik Erikson's 8 Stages of Psychosocial Development" (http://web.cortland.edu/andersmd/ERIK/sum.HTML)
Within these stages, there are growth opportunities, as well as opportunities for fear and failure as an individual, and this is most important in the first 5 stages, or those that will become lasting strengths or obstacles for adult development and success and are guided by necessity through external control of caregivers, teachers and lastly peers. Erikson clearly defined the whole of ones life in a set of goals and standards that if met create a whole human being and if not create lasting feelings of shame, guilt, anger and potential complete inability to function through the processes of maturation and social, human development.
Works Cited
Marlowe, Bruce a. Canestri, Alan S. Educational Psychology in Context. New York: Sage Publications, 2006.
Erik Erikson's 8 Stages of Psychosocial Development" Retrieved September 20, 2007 at http://web.cortland.edu/andersmd/ERIK/sum.HTML
Works Cited
Marlowe, Bruce a. Canestri, Alan S. Educational Psychology in Context. New York: Sage Publications, 2006.
Erik Erikson's 8 Stages of Psychosocial Development" Retrieved September 20, 2007 at http://web.cortland.edu/andersmd/ERIK/sum.HTML
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