PSY 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Developmental Psychology, Ontogeny, Psych
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Freud"s theory of child growth: sigmund freud (1856-1939) followed a biological approach to development, seeing the infant as already fitted with basic instincts for survival and reproduction coming into the world. These basic drives made up the psychology component: the ego was the part of the psyche in contact with nature that communicated between the individual and the superego, or consciousness. Noted that darwinian theory was taken as a popular influence in developmental psychology on many schools of thought, though the directness and scope of this influence was challenged. Freud"s consistency with earlier darwinian theory can be found in that freud extended notions of phylogenetic evolution to intrapsychic (ontogeny) creation (emde, 1992) Fisher and greenberg, in addition, conceive of oedipal theory itself (like other elements of freudian theory) as a set of mini-theories about a variety of developmental problems, such as family dynamics, parent identity, moral growth and sexual development.
