fandomhigh | Psych 101 (Monday, 02/13/2006, 3rd Period)

CLASS IS CLOSED FOR GRADING.
Jenny has chocolate hearts, cinnamon gummy bears, and a whole bunch of other kinds of Valentine's Day candy set out for her students. Along with red fruits--cherries, strawberries, raspberries, red apples--and bagels, cream cheese, and coffee. Always coffee. The door is closed in order to minimize disturbances from the hallway.

"Erik Erikson? Is the guy you can blame for the concept of the identity crisis. Not that it doesn't actually exist. But just letting you know where you can go to get credit for it.

What we're going to talk today, though, are his stages of psychosocial development. Each stage? Marked by a conflict. Resolution of that conflict really needs to be favorable, otherwise you're going to have problems with the issues in conflict for a long time after that psychosocial stage is supposed to have been passed.

Here are the stages ~~copy/pasted from Wikipedia~~ up on the board for you guys:

Erik Erikson's Psychosocial Stages of Development

Infancy (Birth-18 Months)
Psychosocial Crisis: Trust vs. Mistrust
Central Task: Receiving care
Positive Outcome: Trust in people and the environment
Ego Quality: Hope
Definition: Enduring belief that one can attain one’s deep and essential wishes
Developmental Task: Social attachment; Maturation of sensory, perceptual, and motor functions; Primitive causality.

Younger Years (18 Months-3 Years)
Psychosocial Crisis: Autonomy vs. Shame & doubt
Central Task: Imitation
Positive Outcome: pride in self; Assertion of will in the face of danger
Ego Quality: Will
Definition: Determination to exercise free choice and self-control
Developmental Task: Locomotion; Fantasy play; Language development; Self-control

Early Childhood (3-6 Years)
Psychosocial Crisis: Initiative vs. Guilt
Central Task: Identification
Positive Outcome: Able to initiate activities and enjoy learning
Ego Quality: Purpose
Definition: Courage to imagine and pursue valued goals
Developmental Task: Sex-role identification; Early moral development; Self-esteem; Group play; Egocentrism

Middle Childhood (6-12 Years)
Psychosocial Crisis: Industry vs. Inferiority
Central Task: Education
Positive Outcome: Acquire skills for and develop competence in work; Enjoy achievement
Ego Quality: Competence
Definition: Free exercise of skill and intelligence in completion of tasks
Developmental Task: Friendship; Skill learning; Self-evaluation; Team play

Early Adolescence (12-18 Years)
Psychosocial Crisis: Group Identity vs. Alienation
Central Task: Peer group
Positive Outcome: A strong group identity; Ready to plan for the future
Ego Quality: Loyalty
Definition: Ability to freely pledge and sustain loyalty to others
Developmental Task: Physical maturation; Emotional development; Membership in peer group; Sexual relationships

Later Adolescence (18-22 Years)
Psychosocial Crisis: Individual Identity vs. Identity Confusion
Central Task: Role experimentation
Positive Outcome: Strong moral identity; Ready for intimate relationships
Ego Quality: Fidelity
Definition: Ability to freely pledge and sustain values and ideologies
Developmental Task: Autonomy from parents; Sex-role identity; Internalized morality; Career choice

Early Adulthood (22-34 Years)
Psychosocial Crisis: Intimacy vs. Isolation
Central Task: Caregiving
Positive Outcome: Form close relationships and share with others
Ego Quality: Love
Definition: Capacity for mutuality that transcends childhood dependency
Developmental Task: Stable relationships; Child rearing; Work etc

Middle Adulthood (34-60 Years)
Psychosocial Crisis: Generativity vs. Stagnation
Central Task: Creativity
Positive Outcome: Nurturing children or helping the next generation in other ways
Ego Quality: Care
Definition: Commitment to and concern for family and community
Developmental Task: Nurture close relationships; Management of career and household; Parenting

Later Adulthood (60-75 Years)
Psychosocial Crisis: Integrity vs. Despair
Central Task: Introspection
Positive Outcome: A sense of fulfillment about life; A sense of unity with self and others
Ego Quality: Wisdom
Definition: Detached yet active concern with life in the face of death
Developmental Task: Promote intellectual vigor; Redirect energy to new roles and activities; Develop a point of view about death

Old Age (75 Years-Death)
Psychosocial Crisis: Immortality vs. Extinction
Central Task: Social Support
Positive Outcome: Life review; Accept death with a sense of integrity and without fear
Ego Quality: Confidence
Definition: Conscious trust in self and assurance about meaningfulness of life
Developmental Task: Cope with physical changes of aging; Develop a historical perspective; Storytelling

"So. Let's discuss. Bring up questions, comments, possible alternate explanations."

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Elizabeth signed in.

Krycek signed in.

Jaye signs in.

Stark signs in.

Elizabeth looked at the Middle Adulthood stage.

Huh. She guessed heading off to lead Atlantis sorta fitted into that.

Krycek looked at the Early Adulthood section and smirked faintly, then he thought of a vaguely relevant question. "What about those who may be... Displaced from their original life and timeline?" He paused, then rephrased, "I mean, if, say, someone is rejuvenated or similar, then are they subject to the stage they were in formerly, or do they have to relive them?"

[*kicks lj till it posts correctly*]

Elizabeth tilts her head and tries not to look too eager at the answer to the question.

Jenny sort of noticed Elizabeth looking really curious. Weird.

OOC: Answer here.

"Like what, do you mean?" asked Jenny. "We've got a lot of kids displaced from their original timelines here, but they're still the same age. Shouldn't be a change on their timeline on the stages of development. By rejuvenated, you mean, what? Like if someone drinks from the fountain of youth and goes from old to young again?"

Krycek nodded. "Right, and they retain at least the memories of their older self."

"Not something that normally comes up in psych," said Jenny. "And not something that's been studied, so I'm only theorizing that if they retain the memories of their older selves, then they're not going to regress to a prior developmental stage. Moving on to the next one, though? Might have to wait 'til the hypothetical person gets old enough to hit the next stage."

Jaye looks at the Mid Life Crisis years and debates sending this information along to her parents, just to freak them out.

Jenny wouldn't think that was funny.

Publically.

"Does it really take that long to accept death without fearing it? 75 years? That seems a very long time to not be accepting the inevitable."

"Well, it's old age," said Jenny. "Mostly that's the time when people start thinking about dying. Before the body starts winding down? Not many people really thing about it."

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