The question I would most like to ask Freud in relation to child developmental psychology… Discuss.
Do early childhood experiences have the greatest impact on development, or are later events just as equally important? While psychoanalytical theorists tend to focus more on childhood events, do later events in an individual’s life play equally an important role? Do things and events that really happen in your early childhood have such a momentous effect over your behaviour throughout your entire lifespan?
According to Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) almost all of our personalities are developed by the age of 5 years old. Unlike many other psychologists in this field Freud viewed development as discontinuous. He very strongly believed that it is in …show more content…
Jean Piaget (1896-1980) and Erik Erikson (1902-1994) were also stage theorists. Piaget focused on children’s cognitive growth and thinking was the most important aspect of development. Like Freud he believed that development unfolds in stages in age ranges. Piaget had four main stages which were sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational and formal operational. Piaget carried out a series of tests for this unlike Freud who was just going off of his opinions. Lev Vygotsky whom was another developmental psychologist then later came in and expanded Piaget’s cognitive approach to child development. His theories stressed the importance of the role of social interactions on cognitive development. He does not refer to stages in the way that Piaget does but emphasises the importance of the way culture shapes the development of cognition. Vygotsky’s theory then became more learned and popular than Piaget’s because it fits in more with the modern belief that it is of importance to assess the contextual factors in learning. Erik Erikson then who was another stage theorists believed in the
Do early childhood experiences have the greatest impact on development, or are later events just as equally important? While psychoanalytical theorists tend to focus more on childhood events, do later events in an individual’s life play equally an important role? Do things and events that really happen in your early childhood have such a momentous effect over your behaviour throughout your entire lifespan?
According to Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) almost all of our personalities are developed by the age of 5 years old. Unlike many other psychologists in this field Freud viewed development as discontinuous. He very strongly believed that it is in …show more content…
Jean Piaget (1896-1980) and Erik Erikson (1902-1994) were also stage theorists. Piaget focused on children’s cognitive growth and thinking was the most important aspect of development. Like Freud he believed that development unfolds in stages in age ranges. Piaget had four main stages which were sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational and formal operational. Piaget carried out a series of tests for this unlike Freud who was just going off of his opinions. Lev Vygotsky whom was another developmental psychologist then later came in and expanded Piaget’s cognitive approach to child development. His theories stressed the importance of the role of social interactions on cognitive development. He does not refer to stages in the way that Piaget does but emphasises the importance of the way culture shapes the development of cognition. Vygotsky’s theory then became more learned and popular than Piaget’s because it fits in more with the modern belief that it is of importance to assess the contextual factors in learning. Erik Erikson then who was another stage theorists believed in the