Human Growth & Development Flashcards
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Freud’s stages are psychosexual while Erik Erikson’s stages are…
psychosocial
The Freudian stages are…
oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital.
Erik Erikson’s stages are…
- Trust v. Mistrust (Infancy to 18 months) 2. Autonomy v. Shame (toddler to 3) 3. Initiative v. Guilt (Pre-K-5) 4. Industry v. Inferiority 5. Indentity v. Confusion ( 12-18) 6. Intimacy v. Isolation (18-40) 7. Generativity v. Stagnation (40-65) 8. Integrity v. Despair (65+)
In Freud’s psychodynamic theory instincts are emphasized. Erik Erikson is an ego psychologist. Ego Psychologists are…
known as radical behaviorists.
(Rosenthal Tip) Psychodynamic theories focus on unconscious processes over what?
Cognitive processes
The ONLY psychoanalyst who created a development theory that encompasses the entire life span was?
Erik Erikson
Why do many scholars believe Freud’s development theory doesn’t cover the entire life span?
This is because the final stage, the “genital” stage, begins at age 12 and is said to continue through life.
What is Milton H. Erickson is known for?
brief psychotherapy and innovation techniques in hypnosis.
Jean Piaget is known for?
Known as the leading name in cognitive development in children.
The statement “the ego is dependent on the id” would be most reflective of which person’s work?
Sigmund Freud who created psychodynamic theory. (The id is called the pleasure principle and houses animalistic instincts)
Would Erik Erikson emphasize id or ego?
Ego, the power of control.
Jay Haley is known for?
work in strategic problem-solving therapy.
Arnold Lazurus is known for?
being the pioneer of behavior therapy especially with systematic desensitization (coping with phobias).
Robert Perry is known for?
His ideas related to adult cognitive development, especially college students. Perry stresses the concept of DUALISTIC thinking which is common to teens to help understand good and bad and right from wrong. (Black and white thinking).
Why is Robert Kegan known for adult cognitive development?
He studied interpersonal development and found that people construct reality throughout the life span.
Jean Piaget’s idiographic (examine individuals not groups of people) approach created his theory with 4 stages. What is the correct order?
- sensorimotor. 2. preoperations. 3. concrete operation. 4. formal operations.
What amount of people/groups are studied for nomothetic approaches?
Large numbers of people especially for behaviorism studies or DSM
Some behavioral scientists have been critical of the Swiss child psychologist Jean Piaget’s developmental research because of…
his findings were often derived from observing his own children.
A tall skinny pitcher of water is emptied into a small squatty pitcher. The child indicated that she feels the small pitcher has less water. This child has not mastered what yet?
They have not mastered conservation yet. Conservation means a substance’s weight, mass, and volume remain the same given any changes in shape (typically master 7-11 y/o).
In Piagetian literature, conservation refers to what?
volume or mass
A child masters conservation in the Piagetian stage known as…
concrete operational (7-11 years old).
Who expanded on Piaget’s conceptualization of moral development?
Lawrence Kohlberg (used stories to find out the level of moral development in children).
Why are Kohlberg’s, Erikson’s, & Maslow’s theories said to be epigenetic?
The process of their theories follows a given order and is systematic.
Why does Vygotsky disagree with Piaget’s developmental stages?
He believes developmental stages do NOT occur naturally instead education intervention is necessary.
John B. Watson is considered the father of what?
He is considered the father of American behaviorism and coined “behaviorism” in 1912.
Jean Piaget believes a child masters the concept of reversibility in the 3rd stage, known as concrete operations or concrete operational thought. This suggests that…
One can undo an action, hence an object (say a glass of water) can return to its initial shape.
During a thunderstorm, a 6-year-old child in Piaget’s stages of preoperational thought (stage 2) says,” The rain is following me.”
egocentrism, the fact that a child cannot view the world from the point of view from someone else.
Lawrence Kohlberg suggested…
three levels of morality aka personal integretity ( 1. pre-conventional, conventional, and post-conventional).
The Heinz dilemma is to Kohlberg’s theory as
typing test is to the level of typing skills mastered.
An example of Kohlberg’s Heinz dilemma:
A woman in Europe is dying of cancer. One drug can save her. It is discovered by a local pharmacist. They charge $2000 which is 10 times the cost of making the drug. The woman’s husband, Heinz, could not raise the money and with money borrowed from friend it was only half the sum. The pharmacist refused to reduce the price for him so the husband broke in and stole the drug. Should the husband have done that?
C. G. Jung is the father of what?
analytic psychology
Freud is the father of what?
psychoanalysis
The Term Identity Crisis comes from the world of who?
Erik Erikson
Alfred Adler is the father of what?
individual psychology which focuses on the inferiority complex.
What is RS issues?
Religious and spiritual issues incorporated in positive psychology
positive psychology
the term positive psychology is coined by Maslow and popularized by Martin Seligman (learned helplessness syndrome pioneer).
Lawrence Kohlberg’s 3 levels of morality are…
- preconventional (child responds to consequences and reward/punishment influences behavior).
- conventional (one meets the standards of family, society, and nation).
- postconventional (typically hard to reach this level. One is concerned with universal, ethical, dignity, human rights).
Trust v. Mistrust is
Erikson’s 1st stage of psychosocial development ( 8 stages)
A person who mastered Erikson’s 7 stages would be ready for the last stage, the 8th stage called…
integrity v. despair begins at age 60.
What is Harry Stack Sullivan Known for?
His theory of psychiatry ipf interpersonal relations that focuses on social influences. His theory surrounds stages of infancy, childhood, juvenile, preadolescence, early adolescence, and late adolescence.
In Kohlberg’s 1st or preconventional stage level, the person’s behavior is guided by …
consequences (“premoral”) a snickers bar, treat, or removal of favorite toy is more important than the law.
Kohlberg’s second level of morality is known as conventional morality. This level is characterized by
a desire to live up to society’s expectations and a desire to conform.
Kohlberg’s highest level the postconventional morality a person is…
has self-imposed morals and ethics . (Not set by society or family
What notion is a part of Freudian theory?
psychosexual urges
Lawrence Kohlberg, level 3, postconventional or self-accepted moral principles…
highest level of morality. however some never reach it.
What does “Hedonism” mean in Kohlberg’s stage 2, preconventional level?
a child’s naive thought process,” If I’m nice others will be nice to me and I’ll get what I want.”
What does the phrase, “operates on the premise that reward guides morals” mean for Kohlberg’s theory?
It is the 1st stage of the preconventional level, punishment v. obedience orientation.
The zone of proximal development
was pioneered by Lec Vygotsky. This term explains the difference btw the performance of a child with or without a teacher.
Freud and Erikson
classified as maturationists because they believe behavior is guided by hereditary factors, but certain behaviors won’t manifest until certain stimuli are present and neural development is at a certain level. The client’s childhood/past is important in counseling.
Marsha M. Linehan established what type of mindfulness?
She created Dialectal Behavior Therapy (DBT) that allows awareness of one’s state of mind and the environment. This is useful for clients who self-harm or have suicidal thoughts and substance abuse users.
John Bowlby, a British psychiatrist, is closely associated with
The terms Bonding and Attachment because he saw it as a means to survive/ adapt. To live a normal life a child must bond with an adult before the age of 3 years old.
Arnold Gessel, a maturationist, is the pioneer of what?
using a one-way mirror for observing children. He believes that development is determined mostly by genetics/heredity. So a child must be ready for a center amount of education like kindergarten/.
Margaret Mahler, a pyschiatrist, pioneer what wave of research?
infant and young children. Mahler calls child’s dependence on a female caretaker “symbiosis”…later in life this can cause adult psychosis. (separation-individual theory of child development).
In which Eriksonian stages does the midlife crisis occur?
Generativity v. stagnation. ( est. to be 35-45 years old for men and 5 years earlier for women).