Developmental Psychology Erik Erikson - Psychosocialdevelopment Theory And Crisis Life Cycle Model

502276141668Developmental PsychologyErik Erikson - PsychosocialDevelopment Theory and Crisis Life Cycle Model00Developmental PsychologyErik Erikson - PsychosocialDevelopment Theory and Crisis Life Cycle ModelrightbottomRyan Sweeting05/08/1900Ryan Sweeting05/08/19centercenter9410095400Erik Erikson, known as an ego-psychologist, asserts that his psychosocial principle of human development is genetically inevitable and accurately shapes the developmental process for all people. His primary theoretical and experiential focus is how personality and behavioral development is primarily influenced after birth (not before, i.e. genetically), and is so influenced most notably during childhood experiences and resolution of conflicts therein, followed in succession by influences during adulthood. Erikson achieved recognition and success for his expansion and refinement of Freud’s theory of psychosexual stages (oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital) to his own, more comprehensive model of psychosocial development, determining that human development functions by the ‘epigenetic principle’. According to this principle, humans develop in eight distinct stage’s through a predetermined, progressive unraveling of what eventually constitutes as our individual personalities. The quality and speed of an individual’s progression through each stage is partially, yet significantly, attributed to the success, or lack thereof, in