Eriksons theory suggests that developmental changes occur throughout our lives in eight distinct stages. The stages emerge in a fixed pattern and are similar for all people. Erikson argued that each stage presents a crisis or conflict that the individual must resolve. During the psychosocial crisis, the individual must address the crisis during the stage sufficiently to move to the next stage of development. 

 

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you are required to make an informal observation (church, mall, library, etc.) of two developing individuals who are in two different stages of Eriksons eight stages of psychosocial development.