1. Erikson’s 8 Stages of Psychosocial Development

2. Oral-Sensory
Age: Birth to 12 – 18 Months Basic Conflict: Trust vs Mistrust Important Event: Feeding Summary: The infant must form a first loving trusting relationship with the caregiver, or develop a sense of mistrust.

3. Muscular-Anal Age: 18 months to 3 years
Basic Conflict: Autonomy vs Shame/Doubt
Important Event: Toilet training
Summary: The child’s energies are directed toward the development of physical skills, including walking grasping, and rectal sphincter control. The child learns to control but may develop shame and doubt if not handled well.

4. Locomotor
Age: 3 to 6 years Basic Conflict: Initiative vs Guilt Important Event: Independence Summary: The child continues to become more assertive and to take more initiative, but may be too forceful, leading to guilt feelings.

5. Latency Age: 6 to 12 years Basic Conflict: Industry vs Inferiority
Important Event: School
Summary: The child must deal with demands to learn new skills or risk a sense of inferiority, failure and incompetence.

6. Adolescence
Age: years Basic Conflict: Identity vs Identity Confusion Important Event: Peer relationship Summary: The teenager must achieve a sense of identity in occupation, sex roles, politics and religion.

7. Young Adulthood Age: 19-40 Basic Conflict: Intimacy vs Isolation
Important Event: Love relationships
Summary: The young adult must develop intimate relationships or suffer feelings of isolation.

8. Middle Adulthood
Age: 40 to 65 year Basic Conflict: Generativity vs Stagnation Important Event: Parenting Summary: each adult must find some way to satisfy and support the next generation

9. Maturity Age: 65 to death Basic Conflict: Integrity vs Despair
Important Event: Reflection on and acceptance of one’s life
Summary: The culmination is a sense of oneself as one is and of feeling fulfilled.