HD FS 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Learning Theory, Genital Stage, Phallic Stage

• School: Iowa State University
• Department: Human Development and Family Studies
• Course: HD FS 102
• Professor: Pazdernik Karl

Document Summary

Creating awareness of those who are different from yourself. Because regardless of what you are going to do in your career, you will work with people. Understand how and why people change at different ages. Intervene or use knowledge to enhance people"s lives! Simply: development is growth and change over time. Adaptable: able to change to different surroundings. Inductive: one step at a time to be able to run up the stairs. Basic questions regarding the nature of development: Which aspects of development are more or less fixed and difficult to change, and which change easily. A theory is a set of ideas and principles based on empirical findings that explain related natural phenomena. A theory is a tested idea that helps explain how and why things work and is used to guide research predictions and results. Erikson"s theory of psychoanalytic and psychosocial development. Freud"s psychoanalytic theory of ages and stages.