Discussion question: Erikson’s stages of adulthood include young adulthood, middle adulthood, and maturity. Please provide an example of each stage, including the main task of each. Classmate response: Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development occur through the duration of an individual’s lifespan, starting with infancy up until maturity. According to Kail and Cavanaugh (2016), the young adulthood stage is from 19-40 years and is labeled as Intimacy versus isolation. The task of this particular stage is to secure and build relationships with the goal of procuring a foundation of love. It is said that this stage cannot be achieved until one has established a sense of identity. For example, to maintain their close relationship with a partner, an individual may consider the idea of marriage. Middle adulthood is centered around caring for others in an effort to maintain continuity of society (2016). The conflict within this stage is surrounded by generativity versus stagnation. Rather than remaining stagnant, the goal is to promote concern for the well-being of others and creating space for growth. An example would be having an individual take on a mentor role to transfer their own knowledge to the newer generation. The final stage is maturity which takes place at around 65 years up until death. Here the individual is working to make sense of their life, reflecting on their own life and experience with the hope of feeling satisfied with the decisions they made in early adulthood (2016). For example, an individual who fears that they are nearing death may questions the decisions they made when they were younger and ponder whether or not they made the right choices for the given circumstances.