Psychoanalysis Flashcards
Ego
A person’s conscience efforts to balance innate pleasure-seeking drives with the demands of society
Id
Human being’s basic drives
Superego
Cultural values and norms internalized by an individual
Piaget’s Stages of Development
Sensorimotor stage
Preoperational stage
Concrete operational stage
Formal operational stage
Sensorimotor stage
Piaget’s terms for the level of human development at which individuals experience the world only through their senses
First two years
Preoperational stage
The level of human development at which individuals first use language an other symbols
2 to 6
Concrete operational stage
The level of human development at which individuals first see casual connections in their surroundings
7 to 11
Formal operational stage
The last stage of human development at which individuals think abstractly an critically
Preconventional level
Rightness=what feels good to me=physical sensation
Conventional level
Teens years; learn to define right and wrong in terms of what pleases parents and conforms to cultural norms
Postconventional stage
People move beyon their society’s norms to consider abstract ethical principals