Human Dev, Diversity, and Behavior in the Environment Flashcards
Psychoanalytic Theory
This theory postulates that behavior is influenced not only by environmental stimuli and external social constraints and construct, but also by four specific unconscious elements as well.
What are the four elements of Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory?
- Covert desires
- Dreams
- Unconscious wishes
- Defenses needed to protect, facilitate, and moderate behaviors.
What are the three levels of the mind according to Freud?
- Conscious Mind
- Preconscious mind
- Unconscious mind
Conscious mind
This mind is comprised of various ideas and thoughts of which we are fully aware.
Preconscious mind
This mind is comprised of ideas and thoughts that are outside of immediate awareness, but can be readily accessed and bright into awareness. (2nd level)
Unconscious Mind
This mind is comprised of thoughts and ideas that are outside of our awareness and that cannot be accessed or brought into full awareness by personal effort alone.
Id – (Frued)
The level of personality that comprises basic instinctual drives and is the only part of personality present at birth. The id seeks immediate gratification of primitive needs and adheres to the “pleasure principle”.
Ego (Freud)
This level of personality develops secondarily and allows for rational thought, executive functions, and the ability to delay gratification. The ___ is governed by the “reality principle” and mediates the desires of the id with the requirements of the external world.
Super - Ego (Freud)
This level of personality develops last and incorporates the higher concepts of morality, ethics, and justice into the personality, allowing concepts of right, wrong, and greater good to override base instincts and purely rational goals.
What’s the age range for Sensorimotor? Describe.
- Birth to 2 years
* Infants interact with surroundings, predict events, and learn how objects exist even when not in sight.
What’s Piaget’s Pre-operational stage and what’s the age range?
- 2-7 years
* Developing of symbolic thought draw’s from sensory motor thinking.
What’s Piaget’s Concrete Operational stage and age range?
- 7-11 years
- Child gains capacity to organize experience as a whole and now explore several solutions without adopting original one, and return to original outlook.
What’s Piaget’s Formal Operational stage and the age range?
- 11 years to adolescents
* Child/youth can visualize events and concepts beyond the present and is able to form theories.
What three stages are in Kohlberg’s Moral Development?
- Pre-conventional
- Conventional
- Post-conventional
Pre-Conventional Stage (Kohlberg)
The moral perspective with concrete judgments. Ind stresses rule following to avoid punishment. Ind observe moral judgements if they are in their benefit.