PSY 308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Laboratory Rat, Genital Stage, Social Cognition
29 Dec 2014
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Kismet the robot: build in what they thought were innate personality traits, and got people to interact with the robot, 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.
