Developmental Theories (PSY 230) Questions
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What are developmental theories supposed to answer?
Ans: What drives development
How children learn
What causes kids to change their behavior
Developmental theory deff:
Ans: Coherent framework for understanding how and why people change over time
Name the grand theories
Ans: Pyschoanalytic
Behaviorism
Cognitive Theory
Key people for Behvaiorism
Ans: Watson, Skinner, Bandura
Key people for Psychoanalytic theory
Ans: Freud, Erickson
Psychoanalytic theory
Ans: - influence of unconscious drives
- kids experience conflict between biological drives and social pressures
- how they resolve conflict determines development
- parenting and early experience are important
Psychosexual theory
Ans: - based on sexual conflicts
- conflict depends on body involved at that age
- health development is the combo of ID, Ego, and superego
Freud's psychosexual stages
Ans: - Oral
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- Anal
- Phallic
- Latency
- Genital
Development for each of Freud's stages
Ans: Oral - Attachment
Anal - Self-control
Phallic - Moral ideal
Latency - school, peers
Genital - romantic relationships
Psychosocial Theory - Erikson
Ans: - revises Freud's stages to focus on virtues
- Emphasizes kid becoming a member of society
- first to recognize lifespan nature of development
What are Erikson's stages
Ans: Basic trust vs. mistrust
Autonomy vs. shame and doubt
Initiative vs guilt
Industry vs. inferiority
Indentity vs role confusion
Intimacy vs. isolation
Generativity vs. stagnation
Integrity vs. despair
Traditional behaviorism
Ans: - psychology should be about things we can observe