Erikson believed that each individual progresses through a series of developmental stages that involve __________
a) the individual's relationship with the social environment.
b) a crisis in the way the individual views him- or herself.
c) a movement from one biological source of excitation to another.
d) new and different emerging cognitive capacities.
a Explanation: Each of these developmental stages involved what Erikson called a
psychosocial crisis, and the resolution of each crisis would form our adult personality.
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