Erik Erikson was an American developmental psychologist who was born in Germany and went on to organize eight stages of psychological development. He developed a model that talked about the eight stages every human passes through as he grows. These stages depict and analyze a person's life from when they are baby until they die. It mentions how in every stage a person is presented with problems and challenges. Every stage depicts a crisis, which has to be resolved or else it will create problems in the next stage. Thus, for a person to attain a positive personality, they need to attain positive goals of that stage and progress smoothly to the next one (Rosenthal, Gurney, & Moore 2).

Erickson's stage 8 theory occurs between Late Adulthood -- 65 years to death. Its quality is maturity. The conflict is Integrity vs. Despair and it represents the person contemplating his/her life...
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