Human Development Flashcards
Piaget’s 4 stages of cognitive development
- Sensorimotor (0-2 years)
- Pre-operational (2-7 years)
- Concrete operational (7-11 years)
- Formal operational (11- adolesence)
Sensorimotor (0-2 years)
Movement and sensation used to learn.
10 months - achieve object permenance
Primary circular reactions
James- Lange - Emotion
Physiological response to perceptions causes emotional experiences
Cannon-Bard Theory Emotion
Signalling from the thalamus to the cortex results in emotional experience.
Physiological changes and felt emotion occur at the same time, independently, following an emotion
Schachter-Singer (2 factor theory)
Physiological change precedes an emotional experience, however cognitive appraisal of the physiological response produces emotion
Lazarus - emotion
A thought is required before an emotion occurs
Ekman’s 6 basic emotions
Anger Surprise Sadness Happiness Fear Disgust
Plutchik
8 primary emotions with 4 opposing pairs. These can be combined to create distinct emotion.
E.g happiness and excitement = anticipation
James Marcia - IDENTITY
(13-19 years old)
Marcia expanded on Erikson’s Identity vs Role Confusion stage
Identity Diffusion, Identity Foreclosure, Identity Moratorium, Identity Achievement
Identity Diffusion
Low commitment and low exploration
Identity Achievement
High commitment and high motivation
Identity Foreclosure
High commitment, but low exploration
E.g. supporting a political party as your parents do
Identity Moratorium
Ash
Low commitment, high exploration
Flooding
Patient exposed to greatest anxiety and remain in situation until the subjective state of anxiety diminishes
Implosion
Most fear inducing situation is imagined by the patient who will talk them through and describe the encounter; potentially with worse scenarios added