PSY 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Erik Erikson, Determinism, Child Murder
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The role of theory: theories of social development attempt to account for important aspects of development: Emotion, personality, attachment, self, peer relationships, morality, and gender: such theories must: Explain how children"s development is influenced by the people and individuals around them. Examine the ways that human beings affect each other. Psychoanalytic theories: both f and e focus on biological maturation as a drive for development, freud: 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: erikson"s theory: Erik erikson"s life-span developmental theory, erikson"s theory which was a successor to freud"s theory, has also been influential: view of children"s nature: In freud"s theory, behavior is motivated by the need to satisfy basic biological drives. Psychoanalytic theories also stress the continuity of individual differences, maintaining that early experiences shape subsequent development.
