Piaget and Erikson

Trust vs Mistrust

Infants learn to trust caregivers to provide basic needs.

Autonomy vs Shame and Doubt

Develop a sense of independence or experience shame/doubt about themselves

Initiative vs guilt

children take on activities and social interaction

industry vs inferiority 

Children begin to have a sense of pride in their work and abilities 

Identity vs Role confusion

Adolescents explore their independence and sense of self or they become confused about their identity.

Intimacy vs isolation

Young adults form intimate loving relationships or they face isolation

Generativity vs stagnation 

adults strive to create or nurture things that will outlast them, or they feel unproductive and uninvolved 

Ego Integrity vs despair

Older adults reflect on their life, feeling a sense of fulfillment, or they are filled with regret and bitterness

Sensorimotor Stage

0-2, learn through senses and actions key is object permanence.

preoperational stage

2-7 years, symbolic thought and imaginitive play

concrete operational stage 

7-11 children start to think more logically about concrete events 

formal operational stage

12 +, gain the ability to reason hypothetically