which theorist described eight stages of emotional development?
Like Freud, Erik Erikson believed in the importance of early childhood. However, Erikson believed that personality development happens over the entire course of a personâs life. In the early 1960s, Erikson proposed a theory that describes eight distinct stages of development. According to Erikson, in each stage people face new challenges, and the stageâs outcome depends on how people handle these challenges. Erikson named the stages according to these possible outcomes: