Behavior Science (Theories Of Psychological Development) Flashcards

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What is the oral stage for freudian theory?

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  • Birth to 1/1/2 years
  • Infants pleasure centers on mouth (feeding, thumb sucking and babbling)
  • fixation: Smoking, biting finger nails, teeth grinding
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What is the Anal stage for the Freudian theory?

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  • 1&1/2 to 3 years
  • child’s pressure focuses on anus (bowl and bladder control)
  • fixation: orderliness, messy, obsessiveness
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What is the Phallic stage in freudian theory?

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  • 3 to 6 years
  • child’s pleasure focuses on genitals, they become aware of sexuality
  • Oedipus complex: boy to mom
  • Electra complex: Girl to dad
  • fixation: Vanity, pride, Sexually aggressive
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What is the Latency stage in the freudian theory?

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  • 6 years to puberty
  • Child represses sexual interest and develops social and intellectual skills
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What is the genital stage in freudian theory?

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  • puberty onwards
  • A time of sexual reawakening, source of sexual pleasure becomes someone outside the family
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What happens at birth - 2 years at Jean piaget’s cognitive development?

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  • Sensorimotor-experiencing the world through senses and action
  • Object permanence (Remember objects-symbolic thought) and stranger anxiety
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What happens at the age of 2-6 years in the Jean Piaget’s cognitive development?

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  • Pre-operational-representing things with words and mental images. Engaging in goal directed activities
  • pretend play, Egocentrism (No view of others), language development
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What happens at 7-11 years at in the Jean Piaget’s cognitive development?

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  • Concrete operational-thinking logically about concrete events and grasping concrete analogies
  • reversibility, Seriation, mathematical transformation
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What happens at 12 years onwards at in the Jean Piaget’s cognitive development?

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  • Formal operational-thinking about hypothetical scenarios, scientific reasoning and processing abstract thought
  • Abstract logic, potential for mature moral resoning
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What are the stages of pre conventional in Lawrence Kohlberg’s theory of moral development?

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  • stage 1 is avoiding punishment (infancy)
    Punishment and obedience orientation. Physical consequences of action determine its goodness and badness
  • stage 2 is aiming at reward (preschool)
    Interest shifts to rewards rather than punishments- effort is made to secure greater benefit for oneself
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What are the stages of conventional in Lawrence Kohlberg’s theory of moral development?

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  • stage 3 is good boy & good girl attitude (school age)
    Interpersonal accord. Effort is made to secure approval and maintain friendly relation with others
  • stage 4 is Loyalty to law and order (School-age)
    Orientation towards fixed rules, the purpose of morality is maintaining the social order. Interpersonal accord is expanded to include the entire society
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What are the post conventional stages of Lawrence Kohlberg’s theory of moral development?

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stage 5 is Justice and the spirit of law (teens)
- Social contract orientation-what is right is a function of individual rights and agreed upon standards

Stage 6 is Universal principals of ethics (adulthood)
- Morality is based on principals that transcends mutual benefit. What is right is determined decision of conscience according to self chosen ethical principals

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What happens in the trust vs mistrust stage in Erik Erikson?
Infancy (first year)
Feeding

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Developed through consistent love and support. Dependent on parents to survive
+ Grow up feeling secure
- Lead to fear and insecurity

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What happens in Autonomy vs Shame & Doubt
Infancy (1-3 years)
Toilet training

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Independence fostered by support and encouragement
+ Leads to feeling autonomy
- Become overly dependent

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What happens in the Initiative vs Guilt in Erik Erikson theory?
Early childhood (3-5 years)
Exploration

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Developed by exploring and accepting challenges
+ Leads to sense of purpose
- Afraid to try new things

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What happens in Industry vs Inferiority in Erik Erikson theory?
Middle and late childhood
Age 6 until puberty school

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Mastery comes from success and recognition
+ Develop competency and confidence
- Doubting own abilities

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What happens in identity vs identity confusion in Erik Erikson’s theory
Adolescence (10-20 years)
Social Relationships

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Exploration of different paths to attain a healthy identity
+ Fidelity & Commitment
- unsure if oneself and disappointed

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What happens in intimacy vs isolation
Early adulthood (20-30 years)
Relationship

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Form positive, close relationships with others
+ ability to be vulnerable and trust people
- fear of intimacy

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What happens in generatively vs Stagnation in Erik Erikson’s theory?
Middle adulthood (40s-50s)
Work and parenthood

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Transmitting something positive to the next generation
+ productive, creative, leaving legacy
- Self-centered, feeling useless

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Integrity vs despair
Late adulthood (60 onwards)
Reflection on life

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Life review and retrospective evaluation of one’s past
+ virtue of wisdom
- despair, unsure of oneself

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What are the four types of John Bowlby attachment?

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  • Secure attachment
  • Anxious-Ambivalent attachment
  • Avoidant attachment
  • Disorganized attachment
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What is secure Attachment and the stages?

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  • Signifies a warm and loving bond between parent and child
  • feels loved and cared for and develops the ability to form healthy relationships with those around them
  • activates and demonstrate confidence in their attractions with others

Stages
- birth to 3 months
- the stage that baby is forming bonds but relationship with objects and humans are similar

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What are the stages of anxious-ambivalent attachment and the stages?

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  • Emotionally dependent
  • Seek approval from their caregivers
  • observes surroundings for fear
  • Distrust caregivers
  • feel unloved and fin it difficult to express love and connection

Stages
- 6 weeks to 7 months
- the stage where babies display more observable social behavior. Preference for people over objects and prefer familiar adults, however do not show stranger or separation anxiety

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What is the avoidant attachment and the stages?

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  • difficult to express/understand emotions
  • continue to grow up feeling unloved
  • avoid intimate relationships
  • learned to accept that their emotional needs are likely unmet

Stages
- 7 months to 11 months
- the stage where majority of babies display stranger anxiety and separation anxiety from one particular adult

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What is disorganized attachment and the stages?

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  • a combination of avoidant and anxious attachment
  • Children usually display intense anger and rage
  • have a tendency to avoid intimate relationships in adulthood
  • hard time controlling their emotions

Stages
- 24 months +
- Shortly after the babies start to show attachment to one adult usually extend to multiple attachments with other adults who regularly spend time with

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What is psychological development?

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Field of psychology that focuses on development across the life span

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What is the traditional approach?

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Emphasizes extensive change from birth to adolescence, little or no change in adulthood, and decline in late old age

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What is the life-span approach?

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Emphasizes developmental change during adulthood as well as childhood

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What is the biological developmental process?

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Involves chnages in the individual’s physical nature such as
- Height and weight gains
- the development of the brain
- changes in motor skills

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What does cognitive mean in the developmental process?

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Involve changes in the individual’s thought, intelligence, and language such as
- watching a mobile swing above a crib
- memorizing a poem
- imagining being a movie star

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What is sociemotional in the developmental process?

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Involve changes in the individual’s relationships with other people, changes in emotions/personality such as
- an infant smiling from her mother’s touch
- the affection of an elderly couple
- a girl’s joy at her senior prom

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What is equilibration?

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Assimilation and accommodation ( we adjust our ideas to make sense of reality)

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What is assimilation?

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Process of matching external reality to an existing cognitive structure/schemas

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What is accommodation?

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When there’s an inconsistency between the learner’s cognitive structure and the thing being learned the child will recognize her thought (adjust the known info to fit the new one)