SOCU 306
Week 3 Assignment 1
March 20, 2016
Case Study Personality development is quite an interesting focus. After all, personality is the complex cluster of mental, emotional, and behavioral characteristics that distinguish a person as an individual (Zastrow & Kirst-Ashman, 2016, p.114). There are several theories that intend to explain personality development; however this study will concentrate on the psychodynamic (Frued), behavioral (Pavlov), and the phenomenological (Rogers) conceptual frameworks and how they influenced my overall psychological development. In addition, cognitive development theories of Piaget, Vygotsky, and the Information Processing Approach will be discussed. Finally, emotional development theories will be included on the concepts of infant’s emotion, infants and temperament, and attachment. In conclusion ways these concepts affected my degree of empowerment as an individual during adolescence and adulthood will be addressed. The psychodynamic theory presented by Sigmund Freud proposes that the human mind is two dimensional. The first dimension consists of the conscious, the …show more content…
Some areas cognitive development encompasses are information processing, attention, reasoning, intelligence, and memory. Piaget describes four major stages of cognitive development. During the sensorimotor period (birth to 2y.o.) a child progresses from basic instinctive reflexes to a basic understanding of information and environment. The second stage, the preoperational thought period (2 to 7) children begin problem solving and thinking symbolically. During the concrete operations period (7 to 11 or 12) the child begins to understand others points of view and develop more complex and logical thinking. The final stage the period of formal operations (11 or 12 to 16) extends into adulthood. The ability to think about abstract thoughts