Social Relationships in Childhood + Adolescence (Week 1)

Question 1

Psychoanalytic Theory

Answer 1

Development is primarily unconscious and emotional.

Behaviour is merely a surface characteristic.

• Freud’s Personality Theory
• Erikson’s Psychosocial Theory

Question 2

Freud’s Personality Theory

Answer 2

Believes that psychological growth is governed by unconscious biologically based drives and instincts (ex. sex, aggression, and hunger) and is shaped by encounters with the environment.

• Consists of the ID, EGO, and SUPEREGO.

Question 3

ID (Freud)

Answer 3

• Unconscious behaviour that consists of instincts and aims to please the pleasure principle.

Question 4

Ego (Freud)

Answer 4

• Begins to deal with the demands of reality.
• Won’t do something because they know that others don’t want them to.

Question 5

Superego

Answer 5

• The moral branch of personality develops (age 3-6).
• Meaning they do something because they know it’s wrong and they dont want to for themselves.

Question 6

Erikson’s Psychosocial Theory

Answer 6

• Theory that stretches across the whole life-span.
• Inner conflict must be resolved.

Question 7

Attachment Theory

Answer 7

• The quality of the care-giver relationship has a life-long impact on personality development and social relationships.