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Developmental Theories of Piaget and Erikson

capacities. They learn from their experiences and develop more complex mental structures which help them progress through the various stages.

For Erikson (Erikson, 1950), the stages of human development involve conflict rather than capability. Specifically, each of Erikson's stages is said to be a turning point defined as a crisis in personality having to do with a major conflict that is particularly critical at that time of life.

Healthy ego development, in Erikson's view (1950) involves making adjustments to the demands of that particular crisis that characterizes this life stage. If the conflict is not satisfactorily resolved, the person will continue to struggle with it.

However, there is the possibility that a stage that has not been resolved might be resolved at a later developmental stage. Erikson (1964) felt that the stage characteristic of adolescence was a time when a person could successfully resolve not only the particular developmental conflict attendant to adolescence but also a number of unresolved issues from previous stages.

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