Life Stage          Developmental Task                  Psychosocial Crisis








[Prenatal]

Infancy                 
  (Birth - 2)   1.  Social Attachment                   Trust vs. Mistrust
                2.  Sensorimotor Intelligence and
                    primitive causality
                3.  Object permanence
                4.  Maturation of motor functions


Toddlerhood             
  (2 - 4)       1.  Self-control                        Autonomy, Pride vs.
                2.  Language Development                Shame, Doubt
                3.  Fantasy and play
                4.  Elaboration of Locomotion


Early School Age
   (5 - 7)      1.  Gender-role identification          Initiative vs. Guilt
                2.  Early moral development             
                3.  Preoperational thought      
                4.  Group Play


Middle School Age
   (8 - 12)     1.  Social cooperation                  Industry vs. Inferiority
                2.  Self-evaluation
                3.  Skill learning
                4.  Team play
                5.  Concrete operational thought
                

[Early Adolescence]
   (13 -  17)   1.  Physical maturation                 Group Identity vs. Alienation
                2.  Formal operations                   
                3.  Membership in the peer group
                4.  Sexualized relationships


Later Adolescence
   (18 -  22)   1.  Autonomy from parents               Individual Identity vs.
                2.  Internalized morality               Role Diffusion
                3.  Career Choice


Early Adulthood
   (23 -  30)   1.  Marriage/ Relationships             Intimacy vs. Isolation
                2.  Childbearing
                3.  Work
                4.  Lifestyle


Middle Adulthood        
   (31 -  50)   1.  Management of the household         Generativity vs. Stagnation
                2.  Child rearing                               
                3.  Management of a career

Later Adulthood
   (51 and up)  1.  Redirection of energy to new        Ego Integrity vs. Despair
                     roles                              
                2.  Acceptance of one's life
                3.  Developing a point of view 
                     about death

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