what is Freud’s psychosexual stage for middle childhood?
latent period: must move beyond bond with parent and make new friends, libido energy is repressed and then developed by doing new tasks and making new friends
what will happen if a child doesn’t surpass the latent period?
fixates on this stage and will grow up to be immature and adult relationships will suffer
what is middle childhoods psychosocial stage according to Erikson?
industry vs inferiority
what is the industry vs inferiority stage?
child develops sense of own competence through mastery of culturally defined learning tasks