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Please reply to the two posts below. Use text references.

A simple answer as cool, or me too is NOT acceptable; responses should be at least 125 words. Peer responses should be meaningful in that they add to the discussion or provide additional information or insight into a topic. Each peer response is worth 25 points for an additional 50 points. The total points for this assignment are 100.Shelby

Marcia and Erikson’s work on identity are very important to understanding of identity we have. Erikson’s theory came first and it was that there is 8 life stages of development. They are trust and mistrust, autonomy or shame, Initiative or guilt, industry or inferiority, identity or confusion, intimacy or isolation, generatively or stagnation, integrity or despair(Verywellmind). Erikson believed those were the life stages that everyone had and through there life how what happens to us and how we learn those stages effects how we grow up and how our life works. Marcia on the other Hand built on Erikson’s theory. He thought that there were less stages and how someone is raised and socially effected determines your stages. He thought the stages were identity diffusion, identity foreclosure, identity moratorium, and identity achievement ( Learning theories) . I think that Erikson’s theory is more correct and that we do go through that many stages and those vital things such as trust and mistrust are vital into the people we become.

Meredith

While there are so many theorists we have learned about, it is difficult to keep them all straight sometimes. However, two of the theorists we have learned about and discussed are James Marcia and Erik Erikson. They are both very well known men who have strong beliefs about different theories when it comes to childhood and adolescent development. Erikson believed that there were eight different stages between infancy and adulthood. These stages are all important to one another and build up off of each other. I think this is very important and a good observation because if one stage is not completed or lacks in one way, then the next stage might not go as planned either. Marcia’s theory is divided into four stages instead of eight like Erikson. Marcia believes that each of these four stages are character building which will later define your true character and that each stage will result in different parts of your personality. While Erikson and Marcia have very similar view points, the differ in ways as well. Overall, I side with Erikson more than Marcia. I side with him more only because I like how his stages rely on one another to have positive or negative outcomes. I feel like this is a very good point because our actions result in good or bad things coming from them. Erikson is also more widely known than Marcia I believe. Although this does not make Erikson more “right,” I do believe it shows that more people agree with his theory because it is taught in so many different subjects.