Child Development and Early Developmental Theories Flashcards
Developmental stages implies
- Behaviours at a given stage are organised around a dominant theme
- All children go through the same order environmental factors may speed up or slow down development
Major developmental theories
- Freud’s psychosexual stage
- Erikson’s psychosocial stage
- Piaget’d cognitive development stage
- Kohlberg’s moral understanding stage
- Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems
- Behavioural theories
- Attachment theory
- Social learning
According to Sigmund Freud personality is mostly established by the age of __
5
Freud believed that personality develops through
a series of childhood stages during which the pleasure seeking energies of the child become focused on certain erogenous areas
Freud describes ___ as the driving force behind behaviour
psychosexual energy or libido
Fixation
a persistent focus on an earlier psychosexual stage
Psychosexual stages of development
Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latent, Genital
Psychosexual stage development age
The OralStage -
The AnalStage -
The PhallicStage -
The LatentPeriod -
The GenitalStage -
The OralStage 0-2 yrs
The AnalStage 2- 5 yrs
The PhallicStage 5 – 7yrs
The LatentPeriod 7 – 11 yrs
The GenitalStage 11 yrs and above
in Erikson’s view, conflicts are
centered on either developing a psychological quality or failing to develop that quality
Basic Conflict to Event
Trust vs Mistrust -
Autonomy vs Shame and Doubt -
Initiative vs Guilt -
Industry vs Inferiority -
Identity vs Role confusion -
Intimacy vs Isolation -
Generativity vs Stagnation
Ego Integrity vs Despair
Trust vs Mistrust - Feeding
Autonomy vs Shame and Doubt - Toilet Training
Initiative vs Guilt - Exploration
Industry vs Inferiority - School
Identity vs Role confusion - Social Relationship
Intimacy vs Isolation - Relationships
Generativity vs Stagnation - Worm and Parenthood
Ego Integrity vs Despair - Reflection of Life
Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development
- Sensorimotor (0-2)
- Preoperational (2-6)
- Concrete operational (7-11)
- Formal operational (12 and above)
hallmark of preoperational stage
language
Levels of Kohlberg’s moral understanding stage theory
- preconventional
- conventional
- post conventional
preconventional morality stages
- obedience and punishment
- individual interest
Stages of conventional morality
- interpersonal
- authority