Final Flashcards
What is the basis of psychoanalytic theories in general? How many theories are there?
- Development and behavior are the result of interplay of inner drives, memories, and conflicts we are unaware of and cannot control.
Nothing is observable
Two theories and both are looking at internal primarily
What are the 2 major psychoanalytic theories?
- Freud’s psychosexual theory
- Erikson’s psychosocial theory
What is the basis of Freud’s psychosexual theory? What are the 4 stages?
- Behaviour is driven by unconscious impulses outside our awareness. (His theory was connected to sex drive, he thought all of our underlying behaviour has a sexual nature to it.
- Oral (0 to 18 months)
- Anal (18 months to 3 years)
- Phallic (3 to 6 years)
- Latency (6 years to puberty)
- Genital (puberty to adulthood)
What is the oral stage?
- basic drives focus on mouth, tongue, gums, whereby the infant obtains pleasure by feeding and sucking.
- Feeding and weening are particularly important influence on personality development
- Failure to meet oral needs can be shown in behaviours that centre the mouth, such as fingernail biting, overeating, smoking, excessive drinking.
What is the anal stage?
i. Basic Drives are oriented towards the anus, and the infant obtains pleasure by retaining or passing of bowel and bladder movements. Toilet training is an important influence on personality development. If caregivers are too demanding, pushing the child before he or she is ready, or if caregivers are too lax, children may develop issues of control such as a need to impose extreme order and cleanliness on their environment or extreme messiness and disorder.
What is the anal stage?
- Basic Drives are oriented towards the anus, and the infant obtains pleasure by retaining or passing of bowel and bladder movements.
- Toilet training is an important influence on personality development.
-If caregivers are too demanding, pushing the child before he or she is ready, or if caregivers are too lax, children may develop issues of control such as a need to impose extreme order and cleanliness on their environment or extreme messiness and disorder.
What is the Phallic stage?
- Basic drives shift to the genitals. The child develops a romantic desire for the opposite sex parent and a sense of hostility and/or fear of the same-sex parent.
- The conflict between the child’s desires and fears arouses anxiety and discomfort.
- It is resolved by pushing the desires into the unconscious and spending time with the same sec parent adopting his or her behaviors and roles.
- It is through this process that children begin to become members of society by adopting societal expectations and values.
- Failure to resolve this conflict may result in guilt and lack of conscience.
What is the Latency stage?
- This is not a stage but a time of calm between stages when the child develops talents and skills and focuses on school, sports, and friendships.
What is the genital stage?
- With the physical changes of early adolescence, the basic drives again become oriented towards the genitals. The person becomes concerned with developing mature adult sexual interests and sexual satisfaction in adult relationships throughout life.
What is the basis of Erikson’s psychosexual theory? What are the 8 stages?
- Included the role of the social world in shaping our sense of self.
- Erikson believed that we do what we do because of how we see ourselves, we see ourselves because of how we interact with others.
- Also, a stage theorist. He believed that at every stage we had a crisis or challenge that we needed to overcome.
- If you do well in that crisis or challenge, then when you move forward to successive stages, you will probably continue to do well.
- Trust vs. Mistrust (Birth to 1 year)
- Autonomy vs . Shame and doubt (1 to 3 years)
- Initiative vs. Shame and guilt (3 to 6 years)
- Industry vs. inferiority (6 to 12 years)
- Identity vs. role confusion (puberty to early adulthood)
- Intimacy vs isolation (early adulthood)
- Generetivity vs. stagnation (middle adulthood)
- Integrity vs. despair (late adulthood)
What is trust vs. mistrust?
Infants learn to trust that others will fulfill their basic needs nourishment, warmth, comfort, or to lack confidence that their needs will be met.
what is Autonomy vs. Shame and doubt?
Toddlers learn to be self-sufficient and independent through toilet training, feeding, walking, talking, and exploring, or they lack confidence to their own abilities and doubt themselves.
What is initiative vs. Shame and guilt?
Young children become inquisitive, ambitious, and eager for responsibility, or they experience overwhelming guilt for their curiosity and overstepping boundaries.
What is industry vs. Inferiority?
Children learn to be hardworking, competent, and productive by mastering new skills in school, friendships, and home life, or they experience difficulty, leading to feelings, of inadequacy and incompetence.
What is identity vs. role confusion?
Adolescents search for a sense of self by experimenting with roles. They also look for answers to questions “who am I?” in terms of career, sexual, and political roles, or they remain confused about who they are and their place in the world.
What is Intimacy vs isolation?
Young adults seek companionship and close relationships with another person, or they experience isolation and self-absorption due to difficulty developing intimate relationships and sharing with others.
What is Generativity vs. Stagnation?
Adults contribute to establish and guide the next generation through work, creative activities, and parenting, or they stagnate, remaining emotionally impoverished and concerned about themselves.
Integrity vs. despair?
Older adults look back to make sense of it, accept mistakes, and view life, and meaningful and productive, or they feel despair over goals never reached and fear of coach.
What is the basis of behaviour and social learning theory? How many theorists are there?
- Development and behavior are influenced by the physical and social environment.
- Completely different from Freud and Erikson who believed that this was all internal.
- These are about the outside world and how our behavior is influenced by this.
- 2 major theories (John Watson & Albert Bandura)
What is the main idea of John Watson behaviourism? What are the 2 main mechanisms?
- We watch what people do and explain that based on what was seen.
- About what is immediately going on that is motivating behavior
- You do something and something happens, you learn from your experience examines only observable behavior.
- Learning theorists believe we can mold someone’s behavior if we manipulate it.
- Freud and Erikson would say that can’t be done.
- Classical conditioning
- Operant conditioning
What is classical conditioning?
Person or animal comes to associate environmental stimuli with physiological responses
What are examples: Pavlov’s dog is an example. Good example: when you take an infant to a doctor they immediately start crying because they have associated the doctor with pain regardless of what is being done to them.
What is operant conditioning?
- Behaviour becomes more or less probable depending on its consequences.
- This is based off of consequence. Negative consequence? less likely to repeat ct.
- Positive and negative reinforcement/ rewards and punishments.
What is the basis of social learning theory? What are the 2 key mechanism? Example?
- People actively process observable information, and their thoughts and feelings and then influence their future behavior. You see what other people do, think about what you saw, and decide how to behave.
- Observational learning: People learn through observing and imitating models. Good Example; younger sibling learns what to do and what not to do. They benefit form seeing the experiences of their sibling
Reciprocal determinism: Individuals environment interact and influence each other
- individuals and their environment interact and influence each other. Ex: older and younger siblings watch each other. Not passive, observing everything in your environment and being observed by everything. Each piece is being affected by another piece.
What is the basis of Piaget’s cognitive theory? What is a key concept? Example?
- Development and behavior are the result of the thought or cognition. Children and adults use their ability to think to better understand their ability to think to better understand their environment. Through active exploration of learning and finding things out, the better we understand the world.
- One concept is the idea of cognitive schemas. Piaget believed that there is an organization of learning that are like concepts that we put in categories to sort through and make sense of it. Piaget was one of the first ones to say that we organize information into categories.
Ex; toddlers acquire knowledge, and categorize things into groups so that they make sense.
Ex: dogs, cats, horses are all animals. Chairs, desk, ect. are furniture. They don’t necessarily know the difference between these categories at certain ages. The better we are able to categorize information, and break up categories into sub-categories, the better we are at understanding the world.