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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by Eric Erickson a

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developmental psychologist known for coining the term identity crisis which [Erik Erikson and license of Erik appears]

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given his name is probably something he never went through..Okay here's question

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what was Erik Erikson's rebuttal to Sigmund Freud's development views and

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here are our potential answers.... All right

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well unlike Freud, Erickson didn't talk about psychosexual stages he discussed

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psychosocial stages maybe this was because unlike Freud, Erickson felt [People walking in a supermarket]

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people were highly influenced not by their urges and desires but instead by

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their interactions with others we like that idea better too actually.. Okay well

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nonetheless while Freud developed five psychosexual stages Erickson proposed [A book of Freud's 5 psychosexual stages]

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eight psychosocial stages meaning A) doesn't fit and that Erickson was a

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show-off what five wasn't good enough yeah anyway Erickson believed a crisis [Crisis ahead road sign]

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occurred at each stage of development and that each described a psychological

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need of the individual conflicting with the needs of society by completing one [Man jumps over a hurdle]

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stage the individual moves on to the next one developing a healthy

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personality as they go because of this C) doesn't fit either Erickson described

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each stage as teaching a basic virtue and while each stage generally comes [Clock ticking for each stage]

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around the same time for every person. Erickson felt that some could be

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temporarily bypassed and returned to later in life hopefully one of those stages [Baby with a man's face]

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isn't potty training for you but just to be sure let's take a look at the eight

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stages here as you can see each stage of life brings forth a new psychosocial [Examples of the 8 psychosocial stages]

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conflict each resulting in the learning of a new virtue resulting in a healthy

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personality and as you can see number six involves intimacy and love meaning D)

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is incorrect either although it definitely says something about how much [Man abseiling into a cave of the list city of love]

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of a pain in the butt discovering love can be according to Erickson it takes

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only two years to find purpose in life but over 20 years to fully learn about [Guys in a car dancing to music]

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love which is probably why the adults you know are so blase about it and

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latency is a psychosexual stage of Freud's.. Not

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a psychosocial stage of Erickson so E) doesn't fit either that leaves us with B)

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which were fairly sure we mentioned at the very beginning of this video but..

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maybe not we were busy buying 22 jars of pickles... we might [Man buying 22 jars of pickles at cashier]

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need some new friends their people anybody volunteer?

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