Human Development, Diversity and Behavior Flashcards
Sigmund Freud
Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality
According to Freud, what are the three levels of consciousness? Describe them.
Conscious: Mental activities of which we are fully aware Preconscious: feelings thoughts and ideas of which we are not fully aware but can bring to awareness fairly easily
Unconscious: feelings, thoughts, memories and desires of which we are unaware.
What does psychoanalytic treatment focus on?
Bringing the repressed thoughts/experiences into consciousness, helping the patient become aware of the origin, assisting client in verbally reliving the original situation, helping the client work through the problem in a constructive way.
What are two of Freud’s methods for psychoanalysis?
- free association
- dream interpretation
According to Freud, what are the two motivating instincts?
Life Instinct (constructive, altruistic and loving acts) Death instinct (destructive, hateful and aggressive acts)
What are the three components of personality according to Freud?
id, ego and superego
Describe the “id”
Only part of personality present at birth. Unconscious and inherited. Newborn seen as “id” only and has only a desire to satisfy it’s needs for sustenance.
Describe the Ego
Develops from the id. Development is intertwined with psychosexual development of the child. Ego gives a person the power to go beyond holding an image of the need gratifying object and actually getting needs met. Ego has defenses designed to keep anxiety at a manageable level.
Describe the Superego
Arises out of the ego. Capacity to develop an internal value system and feel good when they live in harmony with these values and bad when they do not. Development arises out of the psychosexual development. Eventually takes over position of parents.
What is Freud’s theory of psychosexual development?
Pathology occurs when there is a failure to negotiate one of the psychosexual stages. Under gratification or over gratification can lead to fixation.
Explain Stage One of Freud’s psychosexual stages of development.
Oral Stage
- Birth to age 1
- Focus on sucking because of infant’s need to take in nourishment and breathe
- Infant uses mouth as means of investigating the world
- this stage represents the child’s initial ability to distinguish between self and others
Explain Stage 2 of Freud’s stages of psychosexual development
Anal Stage
- 2 to 3 years of age
- much attention is focused on teaching the child to control bowel and urinary functions
Describe Stage Three of Freud’s psychosexual development.
Phallic Stage
- 3 to 6 years of age
- child begins to associate pleasure derived from self stimulation with a love object
- oedipus and electra complexes can occur if this stage is not resolved
- superego develops out of the ego in the process of the child repressing sexual feelings for the opposite sex parent and identifying with the same sex parent
Describe Stage 4 of Freud’s stages of psychosocial development.
Latency Period
- Ages 6 to 11
- defensive rejection of sex
- sexual feelings are kept at bay by the child focusing on work and play with children of the same sex
Describe Stage 5 of Freud’s stages of psychosexual development.
Genital Stage
- ages 12 and up
- stage is initiated by the development of primary and secondary sex characteristics
- child’s focus turns to members of the opposite sex in normal development
- intercourse with a member of the opposite sex becomes the primary erotic activity
Alfred Adler
Individual Psychology
Adler states that humans have a basic drive towards __________.
Self Actualization
Adler states that _________ of a child has a significant impact on personality.
Birth Order
John B Watson
Behaviorism
What was Watson’s famous experiment?
“Little Albert”
Watson conditioned a child using behavioral techniques to fear a white rat and then generalized the fear to a white rabbit. Conclusion was that the child had no fear of either until he was conditioned and therefore, parents could shape the behavior of their children through conditioning.
Ivan Pavlov
Classical or Respondent Conditioning
What is the difference between an unconditioned response and conditioned response?
Unconditioned is an innate response (ie. a dog salivating over food) and conditioned is learned (ie. a dog salivating over a bell being rung)
Jean Piaget
Cognitive Development
What is stage one of Piaget’s cognitive development?
Sensorimotor: Birth through 2 year: Precursor to intelligence. By two years toddlers can purposely combine their actions.
What is stage two of Piaget’s stages of cognitive development?
Preoperational: Age 2 to 7: Children master independently acquired skills. Children are able to form mental representation of objects and imagine actions related to them.
What is stage three of Piagets stages of development?
Concrete Operations: Age 7 to 11: Children are capable of logical thinking.
What is stage four of Piaget’s theory of development?
Formal Operations: Age 11 and up: Children can reason abstractly - may not ever reach this stage.
Leo Vigotsky
Child Development - Believes that children learn best in in supportive environments where they can identify what needs to be done rather than having someone tell them.
Kurt Lewin
Social Psychology
What is Lewin’s Equation for Behavior?
Acknowledges that both nature and nurture interact in the shaping of individuals.
Anna Freud
Defense Mechanisms
Compensation (defense mechanism)
seeking success in one area of life as a substitute for success in another area of life that has been limited because of barriers.
Conversion (defense mechanism)
transformation of anxiety into a physical dysfunction, such as paralysis or blindness, which does not have a psychological basis
Denial (defense mechanism)
refusal to acknowledge an aspect of reality, including one’s experience