Human Growth and Development / Unit 1 HGD 0028 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Autonomy Versus Shame and Doubt
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The idea
Erikson's second crisis, autonomy versus shame and doubt, is the toddler's struggle to gain self-control while negotiating limits with caregivers.
In practice
A toddler between eighteen and twenty-four months insisting on doing everything alone.
Where people slip
Each crisis can be resolved well or poorly, and an unresolved one can make later crises harder to meet.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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