HLSC111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Personality Development, Human Behaviour, Erik Erikson
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Exploring the development of people through the lifespan including cognitive, psychosocial, family and personality development of/through: infants, early childhood prenatal/birth to, middle and late childhood adolesence, adolescence, young and middle adulthood middle to late, older adulthood adulthood. While also looking at the theorists who describe these stages. Critique of freud: focuses on sexual impulses as the influence on development patterns, didn"t acknowledge culture experiences or conscious thoughts on development. Critique of erikson: doesn"t relate to everyone and has an overemphasis on childhood, do not allow for adults to change and develop, bias towards male development. Kohlberg developed a theory based on moral reasoning: the way people make moral decisions changes as they age, did research with adolescence who were given a set of dilemmas between legalistic rules and humanitarian needs. He asked them how they should be resolved and why.
