FSHD 117 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Erik Erikson, Sigmund Freud, Genital Stage
22 Sep 2016
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An interrelated, coherent set of ideas that helps to explain and to make predictions. Has evidence to support it (ex. evolution, gravity) The goodness and badness of human nature. Behavior is merely a surface characteristic with symbolic meaning. Early experience with parents extensively shape behavior. Developed ideas about psychoanalytic theory from work with mental patients. Considered problems to be the result of experiences in early life. Ego- person you become, what behaviors you will and won"t engage in. Superego- moral development, decides weather you"re going to be good or bad in a situation. The oral stage (birth to 18 months) The anal stage (18 months to 3 years)- learning how to go to bathroom. The phallic stage (3 to 6 years)- discovering genitals and learning what not to do, daddy"s girl, mommy"s boy. The latent stage (6 years to puberty)- girls and boys aren"t obsessed with opposite sex parent anymore. When conflict is not resolved, individuals may develop a fixation.
