PSY 302 Lecture Notes - Albert Bandura, Erogenous Zone, Social Learning Theory

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 302
• Professor: Alba Agostino

Document Summary

Psychoanalytical theories: development is largely driven by biological maturation, discontinuity in development however, continuity of individual differences. Nature and nurture play a role in development. Freud"s theory: sigmund freud"s psychoanalytic theory has had greater impact on western culture and on thinking about social and personality development than any other psychological theory. Freud"s theory of psychosexual development: sigmund freud (1856-1939) founder of psychoanalytic theory, very young children have a sexual nature that motivates their behaviour and relationships with others. Children pass through a series of universal successive stages. Freud"s stages of psychosexual development: psychic energy: the biologically based instinctual drives that fuel behaviour, thoughts, and feelings. Psychic energy becomes focused in different erogenous zones. In each stage children encounter conflicts related to a particular erogenous zone. Id: the earliest and most primitive personality structure, which is unconscious and operates on the pleasure principle.