Infancy Flashcards
What is Erickson’s Trust vs. Mistrust?
Allows for development of relationships with others
Warm, responsive care leads to sense of trust
Erickson’s Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt
Improved mental and motor skills allow for choice
Parental permission for reasonable choice without the use of shame
Erickson’s Initiative vs. Guilt
3-6
Make believe play
Ambition and responsibility
Industry vs. Inferiority
6-11
School, work and evaluation
Peer relations and cooperation
Identity vs Identity Diffusion
Adolesence
Who am I?
Self-chosen values and goals
Intimacy vs. Isolation
Young adulthood
Establishment of intimate ties to others
Generativity vs. Stagnation
Middle Adulthood
Giving to the nex generation through caring for children, productive work
Ego Integrity vs. Despair
Old age
Relfection on life and worth
What did Piaget focus on?
Theory of cognitive development
Cognition changes quantitatively and qualitatively
Children create schemas – way of organizing things in metnal representations
What is assimilation?
Adds information to current schemas
What is accommodation?
Change schema to add information that previously did not fit
Piaget’s Sensorimotor Stage
Birth-2
Acquire schemas by acting on world and experiencing things with senses
Start by repeating chance behaviors
By 8-12 months, infants can make intentional behaviors
Piaget’s Preoperational Stage
2-7
Begin to use symbols to represent earlier discoveries
Make-believe play
Development of language
Thinking lacks logic –Animism, Egocentrism
Piaget’s Concrete Operational thought
7-11
Reasoning beomes logical
Conservation
Organize into classes, hierarchies
Not yet abstract, still need direct experience with the world
Piaget’s Formal Operational Thought
11 years on
Reason with symbols that don’t have to have meaning in and of themselves i.e. algebra
Can think of multiple solutions to the same problem