Development Pyschology Flashcards
What is pyschology?
Is the science or investigation and study of human and animal behaviour
What is developmental psychology?
Is concerned with exploring development and change in thoughts feelings and behaviours across the lifespan as well as health and illness pattern that develop during life span
Branches of study of development?
Child development
Adolescent development
Adulthood development
Focuses on developmental changes of children from.conception to early adolescents
Childhood psychology
Deal with developmental changes,characteristics and problem that occur especially in adolescence and adulation periods
Adolescent and adulthood psychology
What is the goal of developmental psychology?
Is to identify how the individual develops biologically,psychologically and socially
What is zona pellucida?
The 2-cell stage of cleavage
What is RNE?
[Repetitive neural experiences]
Results in the formation of strong synaptic connections
Who Theorized that as we develop 3 personality structures merge
Freud
What are the 3 personality structures that merge?
Id
Ego
Superego
What happens in ID?
You can’t control yourself
Pleasure principles
Urges
What happens on ego?
Child learns to control urges so as to get what one wants(control bladder, wait for feeding,temper)
Reality principle
What does superego mean?
Child learns about right/wrong
Self punishment-guilt,feeling good
Freud’s pyschosexual stages of development?
Oral Anal Phallic Latency Genital
What does oral stage mean?
Activities: mouth/sucking
Age:0-18 months
Infant achieves satisfaction through oral activities such as thumb sucking
What does anal stage mean?
Activities:Bladder control
Age: 2-3years
What does phallic stage mean?
The child learns to realize the differences between female and males and become sexually aware
Activities: genitals/masturbation
Age:3-7years
What does latency stage mean?
The child continues his or her development but sexual urges are relatively quite
Age:7-11
Activities: suppression of sexual feelings
What does genital stage mean?
The growing adolescent shakes off old dependencies and learn to deal maturely with the opposite sex
Age:puberty+
Activities: maturation of sexual orientation
Freud’s theory focuses on?
Pyschosexual development
Theory that focuses on pyschosocial
Erikson’s theory
Theory Focuses on cognitive development?
Piaget’s theory
Theory that focuses on moral development?
Kohlberg’s theory
Theory that focuses on socio-cultural influences on human development
Vygotsky’s theory