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and here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by guilt you don't have

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to watch this video it's not like we worked really hard on it or anything [Woman points to boy]

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just to leave us here you know all by our lonesome it's fine well here's the

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question Erik Erikson proposed eight stages of psychosocial development in

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which stage does a person decide their work-life balance and how to have

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healthy relationship and here are potential answers... alright Erik Erikson believes that each

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stage of one's development was marched by one big conflict once that conflict [Erik Erikson appears in classroom]

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was resolved a virtue is gained and the person then moves on to the next stage

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well Erikson basically looked at life like a video game there's a big boss

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fight at the end of each level and you get a special power up once you beat him [Men fighting by train tracks]

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a metaphor that only extend from so far after all if you die in real life you

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keep the regeneration we're looking for the stage that deals with the work-life

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balance but is it a trust versus mistrust smackdown

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well seeing as this stage occurs during infancy we hope not to be an awful lot [Baby walking along tight rope]

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at the one-year-old doula learn to manage their workload while

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simultaneously trying to sort out the whole walking and talking bang well this [Infant falls over]

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stage is all about learning to trust their caregiver and develop a sense of

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both about the world uplifting sure our answer shall beat industry versus

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inferiority occurs during the school ages five to 12 well during this period

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children learn to read and write pure groups become increasingly important in [Boy reading a book]

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children begin to seek approval from those around

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it's about feeling industrious or worthwhile as both do inferior doing so

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will lead to the virtue of competency and while this one definitely makes

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sense what's more industrious than a six year

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old turning the deep crevices of his nose into a gold mine that's not our icy [Boy picking his nose]

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initiative versus guilt most occurs during the plague ages of three to five

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and describes the conflict between wanting to initiate play and assert [Children running]

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themselves with their peers in order to make friends and a sense of guilt the

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child may feel about being annoying others you know you're thinking is it

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possible for some people skip this step well yeah according to Eriksen its possible

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to skip a step and return to it at a later time which totally explains Larry [Larry appears in staff room]

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for marketing so Mike never returns as well at any rate this date sleep is a

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virtue of purpose and it does it with the question e identity versus role

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confusion comes during adolescence and really does sum up the adolescent

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experience it's that time in your life when you're looking to find your own

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identity to see how you fit into the world in terms of career relationships [Girl looks at herself in a mirror]

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family housing and so on success in this stage leads for the virtue of fidelity

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and while it's the basis of basically every single cliche coming-of-age movie

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in the world it's not our answer so that leaves us with the intimacy versus [Man watching movie with 3D glasses]

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isolation well this last for more or less all of adulthood and its defined by

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the struggle to figure out how much time one needs to dedicate to themselves

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versus to others this is when healthy relationships are developed doing so

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results in the virtue of love while failing to do so may result in social

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isolation which you wouldn't want to wish upon anyone not even Barry [Barry alone in a room]

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