Life Stage
Developmental Tasks
Psychosocial Crisis
Central Process
Ego Quality
100

Middle Childhood

What is 6 to 12?

100

Friendship

Concrete Operations

Skill Learning

Self-evaluation 

Team Play

What is Middle Childhood?

100

Infancy 

What is Trust vs. Mistrust?

100

Competence

What is Middle Childhood?

100

Purpose

What is Early School Age?

200

2 to 4

What is Toddlerhood?

200

Elaboration of Locomotion

Language Development 

Fantasy Play 

Self-control

What is Infancy?

200

Middle Adulthood

What is Generativity vs. Stagnation?

200

Purpose

What is Early School Age?

200

Toddlerhood

What is Will?

300

60 to 75

What is Later Adulthood?

300

Managing a Career 

Nurturing an Intimate Relationship

Expanding Caring Relationships

Managing the Household

What is Middle Adulthood?

300

Early Adolescence

What is Group Identity vs. Alienation?

300

Mutuality with the Caregiver

What is Infancy?

300

Confidence

What is Elderhood?

400

Early Adulthood

What is 24 to 34?

400

Coping with physical changes of aging

Developing a psychohistorical perspective 

Traveling uncharted territory: Life Structures of the Very Old

What is Elderhood?

400

Later Adolsecence

What is Individual Identity vs. Identity Confusion?

400

Wisdom

What is Later Adulthood?

400

Early Adolescence

What is Fidelity to Others?

500
12 to 18

What is Early Adolescence? 

500

Physical Maturation

Formal Operations Emotional Development

Membership in Peer Group 

Romantic and Sexual Relationships 

What is Early Adolescence? 

500

Elderhood

What is Immortality vs. Extinction?

500

Role Experimentation

What is Later Adolescence? 

500

Fidelity to Values

What is Later Adolescence?