DEVELOPMENTAL FOR Flashcards
The multidisciplinary study of how people change and how they remain the same over time.
Human Development
Who: Psychoanalytic Theory
○ Freud’s Theory
○ Erikson’s Psychosocial Theory
who: Cognitive theory
○ Jean Piaget
○ Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Cognitive
Theory
○ Information-Processing Theory
Who: Behavioral and Social Cognitive Theories
○ B.F Skinner
○ Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory
Who: Ecological Theory
○ Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Theory
According to Freud, the structures of the mind are empowered by the __
Libido
According to Freud, the structures of the mind are broken into 3 components:
- ID
- EGO
- SUPEREGO
This structure is present at birth (born with it) and contains all our basic instincts as our needs for food, water, dry clothes and love (nurture). It strives to secure pleasure.
ID
The usually rational part of our personality. Does the planning and keeps up in touch with reality. It starts to develop at birth. The stronger the EGO becomes, the more successful the person becomes.
EGO
Acts as a conscience—dictates what is
wrong or right. It develops during infancy.
SUPEREGO
EXAMPLE OF THEORIES FOR DEVELOPMENT:
1. I am broke
2. I will rob a bank
3. That is wrong
- ID
- EGO
- SUPEREGO
The mouth is the pleasure center. The
function is to gain the appropriate amount of sucking, eating, biting, and talking.
Oral stage
➔ The anus is the pleasure center.
➔ The function is to gain successful toilet
training.
➔ The anus becomes the focus of reward or
punishment.
Anal stage ( 1 1/2 to 3 years old)
➔ Purpose is to develop a healthy interest in
sexuality towards the opposite gender.
➔ Child focuses on the differences between
the genders, especially genitalia.
➔ The child finds his/her opposite parent
fascinating and may reject his/her same-gender parent
Phallic Stage (3-5 years old)
Father-Daughter:
Electra complex
