Child and Adolescent Psychology

Question 1

What is Development Theory?

Answer 1

organized explanations of child development that allow prediction of child behavior

Question 2

what is Psychoanalytic theory?

Answer 2

• first theory to describe stages of development through the childhood
• biological urges to move each person though a series of stages that shape the personality

Question 3

Three personality parts

Answer 3

ID:
- our basic instinctual drive
Ego:
- ability to negotiate between the demands of basic drives and the real world
Superego:
- maintaining the moral principles that work against the drive motivated functioning of ID

Question 4

Freud’s Psychosexual Stage meaning

Answer 4

• believed our most basic drive is the sex drive
• our thoughts & feelings about sexuality is hidden in our unconscious mind

Question 5

What are the 5 stages of psychosexual stage?

Answer 5

Oral stage (birth to 18 months)
Anal stage (18 months to 3 years)
Phallic stage (3 years to 6 years)
Latency stage (6 years to 12 years)
Genital stage (12 years to adolescent)

Question 6

What is the Oral stage?

Answer 6

infants stimulate their mouth, lips or tongue

Question 7

What is the Anal stage?

Answer 7

pleasure center moves to anus & toilet training becomes more central

Question 8

What is the Phallic stage?

Answer 8

sexual energy becomes focused on genitals. boys and girls develop the family romance

Question 9

What is the Latency stage?

Answer 9

sex drive becomes inactive

Question 10

What is the Genital stage?

Answer 10

sexual energy becomes focused on the genital area and a more mature sexual interest develops between peers

Question 11

Erikson’s psychosocial stage

Answer 11

• believed that issues of the ego are more important than those linked with the ID
• ## believed that the development of identity is the central issue for children and adolescents