Unit 4 Flashcards
Scientific study of how humans think, feel and behave
Psychology
• Procedure known as part of adaptation involves altering or changing the existing schemas
• process of getting new information that is already active in our schemas
Accomodation
Assimilation
ENUMERATE & EXPLAIN
4 GOALS OF PSYCHOLOGY
Describe - what
Explain - why
Predict - what is he going to do
Modify - how
What are the basic components of Piaget’s cognitive theory
Schemas - mental organization, understand
Adaptation - child’s process
Stages of cognitive development - growing expertise of child’s thought
The self as ___
Relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity
Cognitive construction
Cognitive
Swiss clinical psychologist
The theory deals with the nature of knowledge itself and how humans gradually come to acquire and use it
Jean Piaget
Theory of cognitive development
Modification of a prior schema
Incorporate into an existing schema
Accomodation
Assimilation
Assimilation to accomodation
Assimilation
Equilibrium
New situation
Disequilibrium
Accomodation
Stages of Piaget’s
Sensorimotor (0-2) knowledge is 2ru sense
Preoperational (2-5) verbal & egocentric
Concrete operational (6-11) logic & reasoning (limited)
Formal operational (12-up) abstract reasoning - principles and ideals develop
• Recognition (shape) of an object changes, (volume) remains constant
• Ability to realize objects exist (not being sensed)
• Not being capable of seeing things from another person’s perspective
• Believing that inanimate objects are alive
Conservation
Object permanence
Egocentrism
Animistic thinking
Enumerate & identity
Development of self concept according to harter
- self in terms of concrete & observable characteristics
- self in terms of trait-like construct
- emergence of more abstract self-definitions
- Having a vision of “possible self)
Early childhood
Middle to later childhood
Adolescence
Emerging adults
Elaborate on the emergence of self-concept & asserted that wide developmental changes are observed
Dr. Susan Harter
2 important concepts of self by Harter
Individual perception of self (remains comparatively consistent)
Self-worth which refers to the individual’s overall acceptance of self
Self-concept
Self-esteem
Enumerate conditions to achieve actualizing tendency
Congruence
Unconditional positive regard
Empathy
American psychologist founder of humanistic approach to psychology
Asserted all behavior is motivated
Carl Rogers
Two subsystem of self
One’s view of self as one wishes to be (unhealthy personality)
One’s being & one’s experience that are perceived in awareness
Ideal self
Self concept
A person is active, creative, experiencing beings who live in the present
Emphasized the active role of the individual
Actualizing tendency
Humanistic
2 actualizing tendency
People’s willingness to learn. Expressed in a variety of forms.
Includes basic needs such as foods,air, and safety
Need for enhancement
Need for maintenance
5 stages by Sigmund Freud
Oral stage
Anal stage
Phallic stage
Latency stage
Genital stage
Father of psychoanalysis
Work - human nature & the unconscious
Sigmund Freud
3 conscious level
Conscious
Preconscious
Unconscious
- Pertain to our current thoughts
- Thought that we can bring into our consciousness (conscious perception, unconscious)
- contains our instinct (repressed experience)
- Develops in early childhood, erogenous zone
Conscious level
Preconscious level
Unconscious level
Psychosexual stages
Areas of the body that are sensitive to pleasant and sensual feelings
Erogenous zones
0-1yr EZ: mouth
Pleas act : Sucking, biting
Primary object: mother
Oral passive personality
Oral aggressive
Oral stage
Oral incorporative
Oral aggressive/sadistic