Theories of Development Flashcards
Freud’s stages of psychosexual development
Oral Anal Phallic Latency Genital
Oral stage of development - Freud
Birth - 2 years
Sensuality seeking through oral exploration
Anal stage of development - Freud
2 - 3 years
Parental control over toileting
Display of “anal” traits - compulsivity, neatness, stubbornness
Phallic phase of development - Freud
3 - 6 years
Oedipal complex - sexual wishes directed at the parent of the opposite sex; conflict between the wish for and fear of the parent causes anxiety
Latency stage of development - Freud
5 years - puberty
Temporary repression of sexual instincts and anxieties
Genital stage of development - Freud
Puberty through adulthood
Transformation of previously repressed sexual impulses to acceptable fulfilment of desires
Repression
Hiding away wishes in the unconscious
Displacement
Wishes / impulses that are hidden in one area appear in another
Sublimination
Using energy from unfulfilled wishes / desires in a constructive way
Denial
Failure to acknowledge a truth which produces anxiety
Rationalization
Actions based on one motive justified by a more acceptable motive
Reaction formation
Displaying a trait that is the opposite of a repressed one
Projection
Attributing your own unacceptable impulses to another
Regression
Reverting to behaviors seen in earlier stages of development to obtain care/resources which alleviate anxiety
Id
Unconscious
Represents ideas and memories outside of an individual’s conscious awareness including primitive drives and forbidden desires
Ego
Pre-conscious / conscious
Drives channeled through self-control, education, and mental activities which allows an individual to satisfy desires in a socially acceptable way
Operates on skills / lessons that have been reinforced repeatedly such that the functioning appears almost automatic
Superego
Governs social behavior and morality by controlling the ego
Jean Piaget’s Basic Idea
The mind changes through interactions with the environment in order to yield more complex thinking above and beyond just the accumulation of experiences
What is psychoanalysis?
Exploration of painful memories through a careful examination of chains of association, in order to understand their hidden meaning and achieve curative insight
Piaget’s Stages of Development
Sensorimotor
Pre-operational
Concrete operations
Formal operations
Sensorimotor stage of development - Piaget
Birth - 2 years
Dependent on exploration of perceptual stimuli through sensory modalities
Pre-operational stage of development - Piaget
2 - 7 years
Language development and development of symbolic capciity
Limited attention span / memory
Egocentrism
Concrete operations stage of development - Piaget
7 - 12 years
Increased ability to engage in perspective-taking, logical diaglogue, and complex causal sequences
Formal operations stage of development - Piaget
Increased capacity for abstract reasoning and hypothetical evaluation of problems and solutions
Emergence of metacognition allows understanding of diverse perspectives
Assimilation (Piaget)
Integration of new experiences with past experiences; problem-solving based on past experiences
Accommodation (Piaget)
Reorganization of mind based on discordance between new and past experiences in order to understand new experience
Decalage (Piaget)
Unevenness in developmental progress across different cognitive abilities
John Bowlby - Basic idea
“Attachment theory” - babies are evolutionarily programmed to form relationships with primary caregivers
Secure base (Bowlby)
Relationship with a person who provides comfort and safety necessary to enable the infant/young child to explore the environment