Mary and Fred have one child and want to adopt a second. Since their first child's infancy had been extremely difficult on Mary, she was excited at the possibility of adopting an older child, perhaps a well-behaved, toilet-trained 3 year-old, and skipping the infancy period entirely. Fred, on the other hand, had serious misgivings not knowing about the quality of care giving and relationships in this child's early life. In a 3 year-old's case, he felt that inadequate care and improper resolution of what Ericksonian stage could lead to irreparable damage in later development?

3. A 38-year-old woman quits her high-paying marketing job to focus on her children and become a school counselor. What stage would Erikson consider this to be:

4. Which is an example of the initiative vs. guilt stage?

5. The stage that occurs between birth and one year of age is concerned with:

6. How many stages of psychosocial development did Erikson describe?

7. The crisis that arises in young adulthood is concerned with:

9. If a child struggles to do well in school, what problem might emerge?

9. Successfully completing the eighth stage of psychosocial development leads to the emergence of what quality?

Who proposed the developmental tasks theory?