CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Erikson’s 8 Stages of Psychosocial Development, Explained for Parents. Erikson’s developmental stages are named after a psychologist who specialized in child psychoanalysis. At each stage, we face a crisis. By resolving it, we develop psychological strengths that help us become confident and healthy people.

Detailed explanation-2: -Despair. Ego integrity versus despair is the eighth and final stage of Erik Erikson’s stage theory of psychosocial development. This stage begins at approximately age 65 and ends at death.

Detailed explanation-3: -Erikson proposed that we are motivated by a need to achieve competence in certain areas of our lives. According to psychosocial theory, we experience eight stages of development over our lifespan, from infancy through late adulthood. At each stage there is a conflict, or task, that we need to resolve.

Detailed explanation-4: -Erikson’s psychosocial development theory emphasizes the social nature of our development rather than its sexual nature. While Freud believed that personality is shaped only in childhood, Erikson proposed that personality development takes place all through the lifespan.