Theoretical Approaches to Development continued

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Theoretical Approaches to Development - continued
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Psycho-Social Approaches

• Focus on Identity Development (due to time
  constraints)
• Freud (briefly as context for Erikson)
• Facets of personality Id, Ego, Superego
• Subconscious processes and conflict among
  personality facets
• The idea of psychosexual crises driving
  development

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Psycho-Social Approaches, continued

• Erikson and Identity
• Identity as life-long process
• 8 stages of Identity change (inter-dependent)
• 8 stages of man - recognition of cultural
  embededness, yet assumption of 1 standard (great
  examples of social egocentrism!)
• Eriksons substages included 8 crises that drive
  development
• Example ages 0-2 years we face a crisis of trust
  versus mistrust where we are learning things
  about whether people will respond to our needs or
  not