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.
What are the stages of Piaget’s cognitive development?
- Sensorimotor (Birth to 2 years)
- Preoperational (2 to 6 years)
- Concrete Operational (7 to 11 years)
- Formal Operational (12 years to adulthood)
What is the basis of systems theories? Who are the 2 main theorists?
- Emphasizes the role of social context in development.
- People are inseparable from the familial neighbourhood and societal contexts in which they live.
Vygotsky and broffenbrenner
What is the basis of Vygotsky’s sociocultural System Theory?
- Examines how culture is transmitted from one generation to the next through social interaction.
- We learn about the culture in which we live from the culture that we living.
- Knowledge and understanding of this context is handed down.
- This can be through family rituals, cultural rituals, ect.
- We often learn about appropriate behavior by learning what things happen in the culture/environment that we live.
What is the basis of brofenbrenner’s Bioecological systems theory?
1.Addresses both the role of the individual and that individual’s social interactions.
2.Development is the result of interactions among biological, cognitive, and psychological changes within a person and their changing context.
3.Individuals are embedded in, or surrounded by, series of sociocultural contexts.
What did broffenbrenner believe about the contexts being biological and environmental?
- He believed that some of these contexts are biological.
Ex: if you were raising a child in the 50s-80s, you might be living in a house that was painted with led based paint, some kids might get poisoned from this.
- If you lived somewhere that you didn’t have access to water there will be a biological effect.
- If you went to a poor vs rich school, you will be more or less cognitive stimulated based on available resources. Your relationships with others will also affect social aspects.
- He looked more at how the individual is affected by the environment but how that individual also alters its own environment. Ex: if you talk to anyone if having children changed them, they would all say yes (if they raised them) it’s not only that the environment is affecting the individual but the individual is also affecting its environment.
What are the 4 systems in Broffenbrenner’s theory?
Macrosystem:
Exo-system: individual does not always come in contact but it affects them.
Meso-system: anything in the microsystem interacting with one another. Ex: parents are interacting with teachers in school, family is interacting with friends. Your behavior and sense of self is affected by being a part of or observing how everything in the microsystem interacts with one another. We have the ability to alter things in the meso-system.
Microsystem
what are dominant recessive disorders? what are 2 examples?
Dominant-Recessive disorders
From one dominant and one recessive allele
- Huntington’s Disease
- Phenylketonuria (PKU)
How do maternal age in prenatal stages affect child?
Age:
Women today are having babies later and later If woman is over 35 it is an automatic high-risk pregnancy Increased risk of down syndrome.
How do maternal nutrition in prenatal stages affect child?
Nutrition:
Everything the mom takes in goes through the umbilical cord and to the baby. Need 2000-3000 calories a day when you are pregnant.
How do maternal emotional well-being in prenatal stages affect child?
Emotional well-being:
When they get stressed, the stress hormones increase and go through the umbilical cord and to the baby. When the mom experiences stress, so does the baby. Babies heart rate goes up . It is more likely for the baby to have low birth weight Can result in the child later having anxiety disorder, ADHD, ADD.
How do maternal prenatal care in prenatal stages affect child? How might this be influenced by ethnicity and SES?
Prenatal care:
Collection of services provided to individuals who are pregnant to make sure their babies health is okay. Includes check-ups, prenatal vitamins. With regard to check-ups one can see if something is putting the baby or mother at risk. Women who do not get prenatal care often have the number one risk of having a low weight baby. In Canadian prenatal care is accessible but When you have other children and are working you might not have time to go to the doctor.
Ex: might not have someone to take care of your other children.
In the US they do not have free medical care and women who have health insurance go
US health care is linked to employment
Sometimes women don’t go because they are not sure if they will keep the baby go on with the pregnancy Some women are at a disadvantage.
Minorities have higher rate of low SES
Indigenous women have less access to prenatal care than non-indigenous women.
How can nutrition effect when puberty comes?
Nutrition
- There is a specific hormone (leptin) it is related to puberty. It is stored in fat cells.
The more fat cells the more leptin you will develop. The more leptin you have the sooner you will start puberty. We also see connections between obesity and puberty.
It’s easier to hide when boys reach sperm-archy than men-archy.
We’re good at keeping records of men-archy. We know that girls are starting their periods earlier in the last 100 to 200 years.
This may be because we have more access to nutrition and more access to processed foods (this helps us get fat which makes us hit puberty sooner)
How might stress influence when puberty comes?
Stress also plays a really big role. If girls are living in a really stressful environment, if she’s a victim of abuse etc. (severe stress) that can bring on men-archy early.
how might SES effect when puberty comes?
We see a strong correlation between early men-archy and low SES. We also see a very strong correlation between low SES and obesity. When you are poor you don’t have access to enough nutrients. SO there is a higher correlation between being poor and men-archy and puberty
How can stress affect a girl’s period?
Stress can also make a girl have her period stop. This is called ameneria. This is because your body realizes how stressed you are and doesn’t think you will be able to maintain a pregnancy so it stops you ovulating because it thinks you wouldn’t survive. This stress will more likely be something like you have cancer and are being treated or you have multiple broken bones etc.
What is the problem with off-timed puberty? Early? Late? What gender is most affected?
Off timed Puberty: This tells them that they are different from everybody else. Either you have to start wearing a bra or oppositely you look like a child. More anxiety, higher levels of depression are shown.
Early: Before 8 (girls) or 9 (boys)
Late: After 13 (girls) or 14 (boys)
Girls often have significant body image issues they have a tendency to be victims of sexual harassment because their friends are teasing them about having a bra or boobs etc. Later, when she is fully gone through puberty. This means by 12 she looks like a women if she started puberty when she was 8. If she looks sexually mature, people spread rumors about sexual maturity. The way other people treat her is different.
Who is most affected by early maturation rather than late maturation?
Early maturation linked with more problems than late maturation. This is for girls. It’s often the opposite for boys.
What contextual factors influence the effects of pubertal timing?
- contextual is stuff around you and how that affects stuff around you. Ex: you have a 12-year-old girl being hit on by 16, 18-year-old boys. This means they have a tendency to get involved in age-inappropriate behavior.
- Maybe at 12 or 13 they are getting involved in drugs and alcohol and sexual activity. This is because everyone around them is treating them if they are older.
- They often start hanging around older kids because they look more similar to them and start behaving older than their age.
- These contextual factors push them into experiences that aren’t good for them. Girls that are early timed have higher rates of sexual activities, STI, teen pregnancy, etc.
What are parent characteristics that are risk factors for maltreatment?
- Parents that have low impulse control, a shirt temper, poor problem-solving skills, coping skills, etc, the parent gets upset a lot faster so they resort to abuse a lot faster. Families that live in poverty and have marital distress are more likely to lead to abuse to children.