Analyzing Erikson's Timeline

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Erikson’s Timeline Amy Conway PSY/230 2/28/2015 I believe that Erikson did fantastic explaining the stages of life. It really helped me to understand his ways of thinking. The stages of life make sense and seems to be almost exactly the way that I would think of the stages as well. The prototype for generativity is raising children. By caring for children, Erikson argues many adults fulfill their basic ‘need to be needed’ (Erikson, 1963) and directly promote the next generation. The generative adult commits him or herself to some activity that is larger than his or her own life. There are four types on generativity. These include biological, parental, technical and cultural. Biological is described as begetting, bearing,
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