Freud's Psychosexual Stages (Unit 11) Flashcards
List the psychosexual stages in order (5):
- Oral
- Anal
3.Phallic - Latency
5.Genital
What age is the oral stage?
Birth to 1 or 1 and a half
Transition from breastfeeding to solid food:
Oral Stage
Outcome: Overeating, smoking, overdependence:
Oral Stage
What age is the anal stage?
2-3 years
Toilet training, reality based expectation of behavior:
Anal Stage
Outcome: Obsession over neatness/order OR messy, rebellious, and hostile personality:
Anal Stage
What age is the phallic stage?
3-6 years
What erogenous zone is the phallic stage?
Genitalia
Attachment to opposite-sex parent, identification with same-sex parent:
Phallic Stage
Outcome: Oedipus complex, castration anxiety, Electra complex, penis envy:
Phallic Stage
What age is the latency stage?
6 to puberty
What erogenous zone is the latency stage?
None
Focus on intellectual and social development:
Latency Stage
What age is the genital stage?
Puberty On
Development of intimate relationships outside of family:
Genital Stage
Outcome: Sexual desire emerges, Freud believes one’s personality is fixed at this point:
Genital Stage
Inadequate resolution of a stage, which prevents an individual from progressing on and can manifest as an unconscious dynamic in the adult personality:
Fixation
Can occur during the phallic stage when a male child’s sexual desire leads to a fear of the father:
Oedipal Conflict
A boy’s fear that the dad will remove his penis if the boy attempts to seduce his mother:
Castration Anxiety
Girl desire their fathers while dislike their mothers:
Electra Conflict
Because girls don’t have a penis they cannot identify with their fathers and later develop an inferiority complex because of ths:
Penis Envy
A cognitive psychologist and the most influential of all the developmental theorists:
Jean Piaget’s Cognitive Development
Maturing brains build concepts or ____:
Schemas
Piaget’s two concepts we use to adjust to our schemas:
Assimilate and Accomodate
Interpret them in terms of our current knowledge/schemas; schema stays the same:
Assimilate
Adjust our schemas to fit the new experience; schema “creates change”:
Accommodate
Piaget said there is a ________ ______ when certain events must take place if proper development is to occur:
Critical Period