Section: AP Psychology

39) From the perspective of Erik Erikson, life stages are important because:

1. each involves a crisis or dilemma.
2. each signals a new stage of cognitive development.
3. their failure to appear is evidence of psychopathology.
4. each is an expression of biological programming.
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At each of Erikson's Psychosocial stage, a person must resolve a critical issue.  Those stages are: 
Infancy - Basic trust vs. mistrust
Early childhood - Autonomy vs. shame
Play age - Initiative vs. guilt
School age - Industry vs. inferiority
Adolescence - Identity vs. confusion
Early adulthood - Intimacy vs. isolation
Adulthood - Generativity vs. stagnation
Old age - Integrity vs. despair