Erikson's Psychosocial Developmental Theory and Bandura's Social Learning Theory

Human Development &
Mental Health

Human Development & Mental Health
Erikson's Psychosocial Developmental Theory
According to Erikson's psychosocial development theory personality of a person grow in
fixed manner which is through the stages offered by him. There are 8 stages of development
according to Erikson that is from infant child to adult person (Samsanovich, (2021)). In every
stage, a person faces some experiences based on psychosocial crisis that have either positive or
negative result on the personality of the person. These stages are based on a person stages of life
such as (Maree, (2021))-
 Trust VS Mistrust is based on infancy
 Autonomy VS Shame is based on early childhood
 Initiative VS Guilt is based on preschool
 Industry VS Inferiority is based on school age
 Identity VS Role Confusion is based on adolescence
 Intimacy VS Isolation is based on young adulthood
 Generativity VS Stagnation is based on middle adulthood
 Ego Integrity VS Despair is based on maturity
Bandura's Social Learning Theory
Bandura's Social Learning Theory propose that a person learn his social behaviour by
observing as well as imitating the actions of others (Rumjaun, & Narod, (2020)). The theory
takes into consideration the way environment as well as cognitive factors depend on each other
to effect the learning of a person as well as his behaviour. Further he adds the ideas to the theory
of behavioural learning theory which are important (Bandura, & Hall, (2018)). Those ideas are -
 Between stimuli and responses meditating process happens. The process of meditation
helps the person to imitate and observe the behaviour of the other person. There are 4
process which are suggested such as -
◦ Attention
◦ Retention
◦ Reproduction
◦ Motivation