Tiffany Martin
ECE 112 S 9am
Feb. 28, 2008
Erik Erikson

Erik Erikson

Erik Erikson believes that in every step of life a child goes through crisis stages. The first crisis stage happens as an infant. During this stage the crisis to be solved is trust or mistrust. For example, if the infant is not cleaned, feed, or isn't being shown enough love it may develop mistrust. This is the same for trust. If the infant is feed, cleaned, nurtured, and loved it will develop trust. This first stage is very important because if the infant doesn't trust it will become fearful and suspicious.
The second stage of crisis begins when the child is a toddler. This crisis stage is called autonomy vs. shame and doubt. During this stage the child having developed trust as an infant will want to do things by themselves as toddlers. If the child developed mistrust as an infant than during the second crisis stage they will doubt their abilities to do things independently. This stage is very......

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