Chapter 8: Erikson: Post-Freudian Theory Flashcards
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Erikson’s theory of personality that extended Freud’s developmental stages into old age. At each age, a specific psychosocial struggle contributes to the formation of personality.
Post-Freudian Theory
Erikson’s term for a crucial period or turning point in the life cycle that may result in either more or less ego strength. Can be found in those Eriksonian stages that follow the development of identity, ordinarily during adolescence.
Identity Crisis
the illusion held by a particular society that it is somehow chosen to be more important than other societies.
Pseudospecies (Erikson)
Erikson’s term meaning that one component grows out of another in its proper time and sequence.
Epigenetic Principle
Erikson’s term for the positive element in each pair of opposites that characterize his eight stages of development.
Syntonic
Erikson’s term for the negative element in each pair of opposites that characterizes the eight states of development.
Dystonic
the ego quality that emerges from the conflict between antithetical elements in Erikson’s stages of development.
Basic Strength
a psychosocial disorder at any of the eight stages of development that results from too little basic strength.
Core Pathology (Erikson)
the first stage of psychosocial development – one marked by the oral-sensory mode and by the crisis of basic trust versus basic mistrust.
Infancy (Erikson)
Erikson’s term for the infant’s first psychosexual mode of adapting.
Oral-Sensory
the second stage of psychosocial development, characterized by the anal-urethral-muscular psychosexual mode and by the crisis of autonomy versus shame and doubt.
Early Childhood (Erikson)
Erikson’s term for the young child’s psychosexual mode of adapting.
Anal-Urethral-Muscular
the third stage of psychosocial development, encompassing the time from about ages 3 to 5 and characterized by the genital-locomotor psychosexual mode and the crisis of initiative versus guilt.
Play Age (Erikson)
Erikson’s term for the preschool child’s psychosexual mode of adapting.
Genital-Locomotor
the fourth stage of psychosocial development; covers the period from about ages 6 to 12 or 13 and is characterized by psychosexual latency and the psychosocial crisis of industry versus inferiority.
School Age (Erikson)
the psychosexual mode of the school-age child. A period of little sexual development.
Latency (Erikson)
an important psychosocial stage when ego identity should be formed. Characterized by puberty and the crisis of identity versus identity confusion.
Adolescence (Erikson)
the inability to synthesize different self-images and values into a workable identity.
Role Repudiation (Erikson)
the stage from about ages 18 to 30 during which a person gains mature genitality and experiences the crisis of intimacy versus isolation.
Young Adulthood (Erikson)
period of life beginning with puberty and continuing through adulthood and marked by full sexual identity.
Genitality (Erikson)
the ability to fuse one’s identity with that of another person without fear of losing it. The syntonic element of young adulthood.
Intimacy (Erikson)
the inability to share true intimacy or to take chances with one’s identity. The dystonic element of young adulthood.
Isolation (Erikson)
the core pathology of young adulthood marked by a person’s exclusion of certain people, activities, and ideas.
Exclusivity (Erikson)
the stage from about ages 31 to 60 that is characterized by the psychosexual mode of procreativity and the crisis of generativity versus stagnation.
Adulthood (Erikson)
