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Freudian Psychosexual Stages

Oral


Anal


Phallic


Latency (only stage not primarily psychosexual)


Genital

Erik Erickson's Psychosocial Stages

Trust vs. Mistrust - (0-1) hope or no hope


Autonomy vs. Shame - (1-3) independent or feel inadequate


Initiative vs. Guilt - (3-5) form friendships


Industry vs. Inferiority - (5-12) confident or not


Identity vs. Confusion - (12-18) who one wants to be/is


Intimacy vs. Isolation - (18-40)


Generativity vs. Stagnation - middle age stage (40-65) begin a life or feel unproductive


Integrity vs. Despair - (65+) look back on life course

Term: Dualistic Thinking

When things are conceptualized as good or bad or right or wrong. Black and white thinking with virtually no ambiguity. (William Perry)

Term: Relativistic Thinking

When an individual has the ability to perceive that not everything is right or wrong, but an answer can exist relative to a specific situation.

Jean Piaget's Theory

Sensorimotor - (Birth-2 yrs) main achievement during this stage is object permanence - knowing that an object still exists, even if it is hidden.




Preoperational - (2-7 years) the ability to make one thing - a word or an object - stand for something other than itself.




Concrete - (7-11 years) marks the beginning of logical or operational thought.The child can work things out internally in their head.




Formal - (11 years and over) people develop the ability to think about abstract concepts, and logically test hypotheses.

Term: Conservation

The notion that a substance's weight, mass, and volume remain the same even if it changes shape. (Piaget) Child masters this during concrete stage.

Term: Epigenetic

Each stage emerges from the one before it. (Kohlberg, Erikson's, and Maslow's theories)

Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development

Preconventional


-Punishment/Avoidance and Disobedience


-Exchange of Favors


Conventional


-Good boy/Good girl


-Law and order


Postconventional


-Social contract


-Universal ethical principle



Concept: Egocentrism

A child cannot view the world from a vantage point of someone else.


Ex - The rain is following me

Positive Psychology

Refers to the study of human strengths such as joy, wisdom, altruism, the ability to love, and happiness.




Coined by Abraham Maslow, popularized by


Martin Seligman

Kohlberg's Levels of Morality

Preconventional - individuals moral behavior is guided by consequences




Conventional - individual wishes to conform to the roles in society so that authority and social order can prevail




Postconventional - individual is concerned with approval and the ability to please others in order to achieve recognition

Term: Zone of Proximal Development

Describes the difference between a child's performance without a teacher versus that which he or she is capable of with an instructor.




Associated with Alfred Adler (individual psych)

Concept: Maturation Theory

Suggests that behavior is guided exclusively via hereditary factors, but that certain behaviors will not manifest themselves until the necessary stimuli are present in the environment.


* The past is seen as an important therapeutic topic

John Bowlby

Saw bonding and attachment as having survival value/adaptive significance. He insisted a child must bond with an adult before the age of 3 in order to lead a normal social life.

Harry Harlow

Believed that attachment was an innate tendency and not one which is learned; Maternal deprivation and isolation in rhesus monkeys

Maccoby and Jacklin

"Males are better than females when performing mathematical calculations."




Boys skills vs. Girls skills

Freud's Structural Theory

Id


Ego


Superego

Nature vs. Nurture

Nature - Heredity and genetic makeup


Nurture - Environment

Term: Hereditary




Term: Heritability

Assumes normal personal has 23 pairs of chromosomes, that hereditary characteristics are transmitted by chromosome, and assumes genes composed of DNA hold a genetic code.




the portion of a trait that can be explained via genetic factors

Oedipus Complex

the boys secret wish to marry his mother, paired with rage toward his father occurs between ages 3 and 5, during phallic stage.

Visual cliff/Depth perception

a device which utilizes a glass sheet which stimulates a drop-off. Infant will not attempt to cross the drop-off, indicating that depth perception in humans is inherent

Term: Empiricism

Theory that experience is the source for acquiring knowledge; the forerunner of behaviorism


Empiricism - Quantitative

Term: Organicism

Theory that everything in nature has an organic basis/ holistic


Organicism - Qualitative

Term: object constancy

child needs representation thought to master object permanence

Term: autistic

extremely withdrawn and isolated

Term: Fixation

implies that the individual is unable to go from one developmental stage to the next. The personal becomes stuck in a stage where he or she feels safe

Term: Instinctual behavior

innate behaviors that do not need to be practiced or learned

Term: Ethology

the study of animals' behavior in their natural environment


Konrad Lorenz and imprinting with geese


(critical periods - certain behaviors must be learned at an early time in the animals development otherwise they will never be learned at all)

Term: Centration

occurs in the pre-operational stage and is characterized by focusing on a key feature of a given object while not noticing the rest of it.


(Piaget)

Term: Animism

occurs when a child acts as if nonliving objects have lifelike abilities and tendencies

Daniel Levinson

discovered that adult developmental transitions in white-collar and blue-collar men seem to be relatively universal; age 30 crisis - occurs in men when they feel it will soon be too late to make later changes

Generativity vs. Stagnation

ages 35-60, successful individual will plan for the next generation.


If person does not master generatively, they become self-centered

Trust vs. Mistrust

first stage

Parent Ego

(roughly equivalent to superego) this state is filled with the shoulds, oughts, and musts which often guide our morality

Concept: Critical Period

time when an organism is susceptible to a specific developmental process. Marks the importance of heredity and environment on development

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

1. Biological and Physiological needs - air, food, drink, shelter, warmth, sex, sleep.


2. Safety needs - protection from elements, security, order, law, stability, freedom from fear.3. Love and belongingness needs - friendship, intimacy, affection and love, - from work group, family, friends, romantic relationships.


4. Esteem needs - achievement, mastery, independence, status, dominance, prestige, self-respect, respect from others.


5. Self-Actualization needs - realizing personal potential, self-fulfillment, seeking personal growth and peak experiences.

Robert Kegan - Holding Environment

the client can make meaning in the face of a crisis and can find new direction





Maslow needs assumption

lower-order needs must be fulfilled before the individual can be concerned with higher-order needs