Child Development - Carlin and Jennifer

  • Sensorimotor: Trust vs. Mistrust

    Virtue: HOPE
    - Needs love attention, and stimulation
    - Significant relationship with mom
    - Explores world through senses
  • Pre-operational: Autonomy vs. Shame

    Virtue: WILL
    - 18 mo to 3 years
    - Learning right and wrong
    - Building Self Esteem
    - Walk, feed, Talk
    - Terrible 2's
  • Pre-operational: Initiative vs. Guilt

    Virtue: PURPOSE
    - 3 to 6 years
    - Independence stage
    - Initiative while playing
    - Need to imagine without guilt
    - Family is the most significant relationship
  • Concrete: Industry vs. Inferiority

    Virtue: COMPETENCE
    - 6-12 years
    - Discovers pleasure in production
    - Can do independent work
    - Deals with a wide variety of events
    - Most significant relationship with peers
  • Formal: Identity vs Role Confusion (Early)

    • Early adolescence (12-14 years)
    • Moodiness
    • Experiment with unhealthy behavior
    • Most important relationship is peers
    • Starting to set goals
  • Formal: Identity vs. Role Confusion (Mid)

    • Middle Adolescence (15-16 years)
    • Intellectual interests gain importance
    • Feeling of love and passion
    • Self reflective (diary writing)
    • Verbal expression develops
  • Formal: Identity vs. Role Confusion (Late)

    • Late Adolescence (15-18 years)
    • Find and define identity
    • More workload
    • Tender and passionate love
    • Can follow through on goals
    • Virtue: FIDELITY
  • Formal: Intimacy vs. Isolation

    Virtue: LOVE
    - 19 to 40 years
    - Loving Relationship
    - Marriage and friendship
    - Commitment
    - Lack of self identity will lead to isolation
  • Formal: Generatively vs. Stagnation

    Virtue: CARE
    - 40 to 65 years
    - Parenting and work most important
    - Significant relationships: family, work, community
    - Mid-life crisis
    - Looking for meaningful activity
  • Formal: Integrity vs. Despair

    Virtue: WISDOM
    - 65 years to Death
    - Reflects back on life
    - Outlook is either peace or regret
    - Either accept or fear death
    - Develop a sense of community with all mind kind