Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Oral Stage, Cellular Respiration

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Freudian"s 5 psychosexual stages: oral stage (1st year, anal (2nd year, phallic (3-5 years old) oedipal crisis, latency (5-13, genital (13+) Erik erikson stages of psychosocial development, focused on life crises (identity crisis), covers entire life span. Go through stages for successful resolution; if failed, then you reverse to earlier stage and difficult to start over. 8 stages-: stage 1 (birth-1) basic trust vs. mistrust: a. Infant comes to know if caregiver is dependable: f, f. Lives characterized by several years of stability punctuated by crises. Mostly questions of life structure: family situation, beliefs, identity. Settle on new pattern of life that guided them through next period of stability (6-7 years) Important crises at adulthood (around 22) and midlife (around 45) Levinson believed that all men experiences a crisis, whether successful or not. Gave crisis scale to big sample size. No evidence at all for a mid life crisis.