psychology september 08, 2008. bell ringer use the first 5 minutes to brainstorm and come up with...
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Psychology
September 08, 2008
Bell Ringer
Use the first 5 minutes to brainstorm and come up with some of the milestones in life for a typically American human being. (ex. first day of school, retirement, etc…)
Toss each milestone into the bucket you believe it belongs in
Eight Stages of Life and the conflict associated with them by Erikson
1. Infant 2. Toddler 3. Preschooler/Early
Childhood 4. School Age/Play 5. Adolescence 6. Young Adulthood 7. Adulthood 8. Old Age
Basic trust vs. basic distrust Autonomy vs. shame and
doubt Initiative vs. guilt Industry vs. inferiority Identity vs. role confusion Intimacy vs. isolation Generativity vs. stagnation Ego integrity vs. despair
Research the first 5 stages Use the web sites listed on the next page to
research the first 5 stages of Life Identify the following for each stage:
1. Name of stage 2. Age range 3. Crisis or conflict 4. Description and examples5. Positive outcome (also called virtues) 6. Negative outcome (also called
maladaptations) 7. Significant relationships
WEB SITES FOR RESEARCH
http://psychology.about.com/od/theoriesofpersonality/a/psychosocial.htm
http://childdevelopmentinfo.com/development/erickson.shtml
http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/erikson.html http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/
committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/erikson.htm
Groups Presentations
Each group will identify their stage of life and pass on the important information to the entire class. All students are expected to participate it is important that all the information is distributed
All students being presented to will be responsible for asking questions and making sure all the information is clearly understood. You will be responsible for this information on the assessment
Participation Rubric
Evaluation Use the following rubric to evaluate how well you participated in class discussions, worked within your groups, and created your presentations on the first five stages of life.
50 points: active participation in class discussion; insightful and mature when working in a group; clear, thorough presentation created with several details about the assigned stage of life.
40 points: average participation in class discussion; average interest and participation when working in a group; presentation created with some details about the assigned stage of life.
25 point: little participation in class discussion; difficulty working in a group; incomplete presentation created with few or no details about the assigned stage of life.
Young Adulthood
Age range - 18 to about 30 Goal in this stage is to achieve
intimacy (a close, familiar, and usually affectionate or loving personal relationship with another person or group)
CRISIS CONFLICT
fear of commitment Need to prove self Developing mature
and intimate relationships
Individuality vs. relationship
Two egos coming together as one in a relationship
Descriptions of Stage 6
First job/career choice Moving out on your own First adult relationship with significant other Marriage Children Making decisions that effect other people
(move, choices for children, spouses, etc…)
POSITIVE OUTCOME OF YOUNG ADULTHOOD
L V EIt includes not only the love we find in a good
relationship, but the love between friends and the love of one's neighbor, co-worker, etc…
NEGATIVE OUTCOMES OF YOUNG ADULTHOOD
Promiscuity - the tendency to become intimate too freely, too easily, and without any depth to your intimacy. This can be true of your relationships with friends and neighbors and your whole community as well as with lovers
Exclusion - to isolate oneself from love, friendship, and community, and to develop a certain hatefulness in compensation for one's loneliness
SIGNIFICANT RELATIONSHIPS
SIGNIFICANT OTHER (Girlfriend/boyfriend, husband/wife/partner)
NEIGHBORSCO-WORKERSCOMMUNITY
Adulthood – Stage 7
Hard to pinpoint the age range but it is typically during child rearing – 25 to 50s
Conflict/Crisis
In this stage you must cultivate the proper balance of generativity and stagnation
Generativity – to produce something (kids)
Stagnation - to stop developing, growing, progressing, or advancing
GenerativityGenerativity is an extension of love into
the future – creating future generations to carry on your love
Less selfish then Stage 6 (intimacy with an equal) – In stage 6, we expect the love in return to be equal or greater than we give – not so in stage 7 – we don’t expect our children to love us the same way we love them
Generativity (con’t)
contributing to the welfare of future generations is also considered generativity Examples: teaching, writing, invention, and social activism – anything that falls under the “NEED TO BE NEEDED”
Stagnation
Stagnation, on the other hand, is self-absorption, caring for no-one
A stagnant person is not a productive member of society
CONFLICT
Nobody wants to be stagnant but sometimes we try to do too much (be too generative) and we aren’t doing enough for ourselves. They become overextended.
Jack of all trades, master of none – an overextended person tries to do so much that they can’t do any of them very well
CONFLICT (con’t)
Rejectivity – with too little generativity and too much stagnation you are no longer contributing for society
"the meaning of life" is a matter of how we participate and what we contribute
MIDLIFE CRISIS
Why am I doing this? What do I get out of this? Become selfish, again. Try to recapture their
youth because they look at their life like they haven’t done everything they thought they would have when they were younger (buy a fast car, new hip clothes, flirt/date younger men/women, quit job, etc…)
Success in Middle Adulthood
Success at this stage means you will have a capacity for caring that will serve you through the rest of your life
8th Stage – Old Age or Late Adulthood
Starts around retirement age (60) – This stage has gotten redefined more recently because people are living to be older and are working longer into their years.
Reaching Late Adulthood
Most people don’t want to be old – They will say “you are only as old as you feel” or “age is just a number” – Most people want to remain in their youth but…
According to Erikson, reaching late adulthood is a good thing. It means you have successfully mastered the seven other stages – if you don’t reach it, you have encountered problems that you couldn’t solve along the way
Conflicts
Ego integrity vs. Despair
How to lose responsibilities without becoming angry?
Loss of feeling needed
Most people retire from jobs they have held for many years
Parenting, for the most part, is not needed (kids are grown and becoming parents of their own)
Find that their advice is not requested or required as much
Loss of feeling needed (con’t)
The body begins to break down, can’t do everything it used to be able to do
Women go through menopause (loss of youth)
Men can’t perform Health issues (arthritis, diabetes, heart
problems, concerns about breast and ovarian and prostrate cancers )
Fear of things never feared – ex. falling down
Death in Life
Friends dieRelatives dieSpouse diesChildren dieYou die – and you know it
Nagatives of stage 8 - DISPAIR
Become preoccupied with the past – good old days
Become preoccupied with the failures they had in their youth – questioning their decisions – REGRET – that can’t be changed at this point in their lives
Some become depressed, spiteful, paranoid, hypochondriacal, or developing the patterns of senility with or without physical bases
Positives of stage 8 – Ego Integrity
coming to terms with your life, and thereby coming to terms with the end of life - knowing you are going to die and being ok with it – HOW?
How to accept Death?
If you are able to look back and accept the course of events, the choices made, your life as you lived it, as being necessary, then you needn't fear death
By approaching death without fear, you have the strength called wisdom
Mistakes we make
We all make mistakes – they are what shape us, make us who we are
But we must learn from our mistakes
Maladaptive Tendency/Malignant Tendency
Presumptions – you presume you are ok with old age but you never really face any of the problems or crisis
Disdain - contempt of life – just happy because