What’s on the Erikson's Stages poster
A 8-row table: Stage · Crisis · Virtue.
The crisis at each stage, and the virtue from resolving it.
- Infancy — Trust vs mistrust — Hope
- Toddler — Autonomy vs shame — Will
- Preschool — Initiative vs guilt — Purpose
- School age — Industry vs inferiority — Competence
- Adolescence — Identity vs role confusion — Fidelity
- Young adult — Intimacy vs isolation — Love
- Adulthood — Generativity vs stagnation — Care
- Old age — Integrity vs despair — Wisdom
Unlike Piaget, Erikson covers the entire lifespan — which is why it remains widely taught despite weak empirical support.
Questions about the Erikson's Stages poster
- What’s on the Erikson's Stages poster?
- A 8-row table: Stage · Crisis · Virtue. The crisis at each stage, and the virtue from resolving it. Infancy — Trust vs mistrust — Hope; Toddler — Autonomy vs shame — Will; Preschool — Initiative vs guilt — Purpose; School age — Industry vs inferiority — Competence; Adolescence — Identity vs role confusion — Fidelity; Young adult — Intimacy vs isolation — Love; Adulthood — Generativity vs stagnation — Care; Old age — Integrity vs despair — Wisdom. Unlike Piaget, Erikson covers the entire lifespan — which is why it remains widely taught despite weak empirical support.
- Who is the Erikson's Stages poster for?
- Erikson's Stages belongs to the Psychology section rather than to a school year, because life science is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning developmental can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Erikson's Stages poster?
- Each stage is a tension, not a task. Resolution is a balance, not a win. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Erikson's Stages belongs on the wall where that life science work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Erikson's Stages?
- Adolescence, Cognitive Ageing and Attachment sit alongside Erikson's Stages in the Psychology section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.AdolescenceCognitive AgeingAttachment
- Is the Erikson's Stages poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Erikson's Stages downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Psychology section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Erikson's Stages poster print at?
- Erikson's Stages is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Erikson's Stages loses nothing.Printing guide
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