GEO 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Little Albert Experiment, Operant Conditioning, Behaviorism
5 Nov 2016
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Development: growth and change over time with cumulative change and distinct change. Influences on growth: family, friends, relationships, education, social status, health, culture. Active: children play an active role in their own development. Multifinality: starting at the same point but ending up in completely different places. Ex. twins being conceived together but being adopted by culturally different families. Equifinality: starting at different points but ending up in the same end result. Results from interplay of biology and environment. Goals: to describe people, explain the change, predicting why the change happens and how to intervene among the changes. Freud: adult personality determined by how we resolve conflicts at each psychosexual stage (oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital) All human behavior is conflict of the mind - id, ego, superego. Erikson: resolving conflicts at psychosocial stages: hope: trust vs. mistrust (birth -18m, will: autonomy vs. shame & doubt (18m-3y, purpose: initiative vs.
