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ERICKSON PSYCHOSOCIAL THEORY

Theory Stages Justification and Result

Erikson's psychological Identity vs Confusion


theory proposed the
Age 12 - 20 (Adolescence) Based on the patient he
human development that
As they transition from was playing basketball and
occurs in stages from
childhood to adulthood, video games with his
childhood to old age.
teens may begin to feel friends.
According to him, the idea
confused or insecure about
of what is known about
themselves and how they
how we develop, how our
fit into society. As they
circumstances are made,
seek to establish a sense
especially our families that
of self, teens may
effect our lives, and why
experiment with different
some people experience
roles, activities, and
identity crises is related to
behaviors. According to
how we build our
Erikson, this is important to
personalities depending on
the process of forming a
where we started
strong identity and
developing a sense of
direction in life.

SIGMUND FREUD’S PSYCHOSEXUAL DEVELOPMENT THEORY

Theory Stages

Sigmund Freud proposed Genital Stage


that personality
Puberty - Adult The patient begins to
development in childhood
During this stage, explore his sexual feeling
takes place during five
individuals start to become by going out on a date and
psychosexual stages,
which are the oral, anal, sexually mature and begin going to parties.
phallic, latency, and genital to explore their sexual
- Achieved
stages. feelings and desires more
maturely and responsibly.
During each stage, sexual
energy (libido) is
expressed in different
ways and through different
body parts

PIAGET’S DEVELOPMENT THEORY

Theory Stages

Piaget proposed that Formal Operational Stage • As the patient reach the
cognition developed puberty stage, he started
The final stage of Piaget's
through distinct stages to understand that shrimp
theory involves an
from birth through the end is a life threatening for him,
increase in logic, the ability
of adolescence. Piaget so he started to avoid it.
to use deductive
proposed four major
reasoning, and an - Achieved
stages of cognitive
understanding of abstract
development, and called
ideas.3 At this point,
them (1) sensorimotor
adolescents and young
intelligence, (2)
adults become capable of
preoperational thinking, (3)
seeing multiple potential
concrete operational
solutions to problems and
thinking, and (4) formal
think more scientifically
operational thinking. Each
about the world around
stage is correlated with an
them.
age period of childhood,
but only approximately.

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