PSY BEH 101D Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Phallic Stage, Genital Stage, Anal Stage

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Psychology and Social Behavior
• Course: PSY BEH 101D
• Professor: Jodi Anne Quas

Document Summary

Described eight developmental stages, each characterized by a challenging changed with several adult shifts in context. First five stages build on freud"s theory. Also described three adult stages, perhaps because he saw himself. Named two polarities at each stage (which is why the word versus. But he recognized that many outcomes between these opposites are is used in each) possible. Like freud, believed that adult problems echo childhood conflicts. Emphasize family and culture, not sexual urges. Called his theory epigenetic, partly to stress that genes and biological impulses are powerfully influenced by the social environment.