FMLY 1010 Lecture 34: Lecture 34

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Family Social Sciences
• Course: FMLY 1010
• Professor: Christine A.Schippers

Document Summary

Freud"s theory of personality development emphasized psychosexual stages of maturation. Erikson emphasized the important of internal drives and culture in psychosocial stages. Both stages that occur as a preschooler are triggered by growing physical, cognitive, and social skills. Autonomy vs. shame & doubt toddler becomes mobile and desires autonomy. Guilt new cognitive skills **ability to plan. Key to healthy development: balance between emerging skills/desire for autonomy and parents" need to protect child/control child"s behaviour. Social-cognitive theory = theoretical perspective that asserts that social & personality development in early childhood is related to improvements in the cognitive domain. Person perception = the ability to classify others according to categories such as age, gender, Describe others in terms of traits, making judgments about others & statements about others" behaviour. Inconsistent categorization compared to that of older children. 1 only based on most recent interactions with the other individual. Also judge others on basis of observable characteristics (race, age, gender)