2- lifespan theories Flashcards

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PSYCHOSEXUAL THEORY OF DEVELOPMENT

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  • Sigmund freud
  • Personality develops during early childhood
  • Development is discontinuous
    ○ Everyone has to pass through a series of stages during childhood
    ○ If we lack proper nurturance and parenting during a stage, we may become stuck, or fixated, in that stage
  • we can take away from Freud’s theory is that personality is shaped, in some part, by experiences we have in childhood.
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stages of psychosexual development

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  • children’s pleasure-seeking urges are focused on a different area of the body, called an erogenous zone, at each of the five stages of development:
    • oral,
    • anal,
    • phallic,
    • Latency
    • Genital
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PSYCHOSOCIAL THEORY OF DEVELOPMENT

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  • Emphasizes the SOCIAL NATURE of our development rather than its sexual nature
  • Personality development takes place all through the lifespan!
  • How we interact with others is what affects our sense of self
    ○ Ego identity

erikson!!

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Erikson’s Psychosocial Stage of development 1

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0–1

Trust vs. mistrust

Trust (or mistrust) that basic needs, such as nourishment and affection, will be met

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Erikson’s Psychosocial Stages of Development 2

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1–3

Autonomy vs. shame/doubt

Develop a sense of independence in many tasks

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Erikson’s Psychosocial Stages of Development 3

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3–6

Initiative vs. guilt

Take initiative on some activities—may develop guilt when unsuccessful or boundaries overstepped

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Erikson’s Psychosocial Stages of Development 4

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7–11

Industry vs. inferiority

Develop self-confidence in abilities when competent or sense of inferiority when not

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Erikson’s Psychosocial Stages of Development 5

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12–18

Identity vs. confusion

Experiment with and develop identity and roles

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Erikson’s Psychosocial Stages of Development 6

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19–29

Intimacy vs. isolation

Establish intimacy and relationships with others

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Erikson’s Psychosocial Stages of Development 7

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30–64

Generativity vs. stagnation

Contribute to society and be part of a family

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Erikson’s Psychosocial Stages of Development 8

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65–

Integrity vs. despair

Assess and make sense of life and meaning of contributions

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COGNITIVE THEORY OF DEVELOPMENT

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  • Jean piaget
  • Focused on children’s cognitive growth
  • Believed that thinking is a central aspect of development and that children are natureally inquisitve
    ○ Buuut they don’t think and reason like adults
  • Cognitive abilities develop through specific stages
    ○ Discontinuity approach to development
  • Children develop schemata to help them understand the world
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Assimilation

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take info that is comparable to what they already know

we take in new information or experiences and incorporate them into our existing ideas

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Accommodation

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when they change their schemata based on new info

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Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development
Sensorimotor

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0–2

Sensorimotor

World experienced through senses and actions, Tools for thinking and reasoning change with development

Object permanence
Stranger anxiety

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Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development
preoperational

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2–6

Preoperational

Use words and images to represent things, but lack logical reasoning, cannot yet perform the mental operations of concrete logic
- e.g. conservation (cut apple = more apple?!?!?!?)

Pretend play
Egocentrism
Language development

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Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development concrete operational

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7–11

Concrete operational

Understand concrete events and analogies logically; perform arithmetical operations
- Change in form, change in quantity, simple math and conservation (e.g. fractions)

Conservation
Mathematical transformations

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Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development formal operational

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12–

Formal operational

Formal operations
Utilize abstract reasoning
Can think outside actual experience

Abstract logic
Moral reasoning

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object permanence

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which is the understanding that even if something is out of sight, it still exists

5-8 months old

piaget

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stranger anxiety

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5-8 months
fear of unfamiliar people

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conservation

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the idea that even if you change the appearance of something, it is still equal in size as long as nothing has been removed or added.

preoperational stage

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egocentricism

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the child is not able to take the perspective of others. A child at this stage thinks that everyone sees, thinks, and feels just as they do.

preoperational stage

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reversibility

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concrete operational stage
objects can be changed and then returned back to their og form/condition

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modern thoughts about piaget?

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nowadays, many developmental psychologists disagree with piaget
○ 5th stage!! Postformal stage
○ decisions are made based on situations and circumstances, and logic is integrated with emotion as adults develop principles that depend on contexts.

Overall score: pretty good
- Stimulated global interest
- Milestones: backed up by research
- BUT it’s much more continuous / less discrete § And kids may be more competent
- Piaget’s participants: his own family!

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SOCIOCULTURAL THEORY OF DEVELOPMENT

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  • Lev vygotsky
  • Russian psychologist
  • Human development is rooted in one’s CULTURE
  • Child as apprentice (compared to Piaget)
  • Development stems from social world
    and language
  • Increasingly sophisticated language develops abilities, thoughts, abstractions
  • i.e. Language is a “scaffold” for thought
  • Some evidence to support (muttering and test performance)
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Moral theory of development

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  • Kohlberg
    • Gave people a moral dilemma
    • After presenting people with this and various other moral dilemmas, Kohlberg reviewed people’s responses and placed them in different stages of moral reasoning
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pre-conventional morality

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(before age 9)

Self-interest; obey rules to avoid punishment or gain concrete rewards

maximize rewards and avoid punishments

stage 1: obedience and punishment: behaviour driven by avoiding punishment

stage 2: individual interest: behaviour driven by self-interest and rewards

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conventional morality

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(early adolescence)

Uphold laws and rules to gain social approval or maintain social order

Kohlberg believed that most people were here

level 2

stage 3: interpersonal: behaviour driven by social approval

stage 4: authority: behaviour driven by obeying authority and conforming to social order

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post-conventional morality

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(adolescence and beyond)

level 3

stage 5: social contract: behaviour driven by balance of social order and individual rights

stage 6: universal ethics: behaviour driven by internal moral priniples

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gilligan’s thoughts about kohl bergs different stages of moral reasoning?

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  • Gilligan didn’t like the fact that kohlberg said that women were dificient in their moral reasoning abilities
    ○ said that Girls and women focus more on staying connected and the importance of interpersonal relationships
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scale errors

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fail to take into account the size of things
piaget

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Reflecting on Piaget’s Theory

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Overall score: pretty good
- Stimulated global interest
- Milestones: backed up by research
- BUT it’s much more continuous / less discrete
- And kids may be more competent
- Piaget’s participants: his own family

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Theory of mind

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e.g. Sally-Anne test (Baron- Cohen, Leslie, and Frith 1985)
- Develops between 31⁄2 and 41⁄2 years old
- piaget
- can be developmentally delayed

Between 3 and 5 years old, children come to understand that people have thoughts, feelings, and beliefs that are different from their own.