PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Phallic Stage, Genital Stage, Latency Stage
1 Dec 2020
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Psychoanalytic theories: describe development as primarily unconscious and heavily colored by emotions. Emphasize that behaviour is a surface characteristic; the deep symbolic workings of the inner mind must be analyzed to understand behaviour. Freud"s psychosexual theory: as children grow up their focus of pleasure and sexual impulses shifts from the mouth to the anus and eventually to the genitals through a series of 5 developmental stages; Oral stage anal stage phallic stage latency stage genital stage. Erikson"s psychosocial theory: description of 8 stages of human development; Each stage consists of a unique developmental task that confronts individuals with a crisis that must be resolved (review fig. Psychoanalytic theories include an emphasis on a developmental framework, family relationships, and unconscious aspects of the mind. Overemphasizing the role of the unconscious mind. An image of children that is too negative (freud) Cognitive theories: emphasize the role of conscious thoughts during development.
