CFD 1220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Phallic Stage, Psychoanalytic Theory, Anal Stage

Chapter 2: Theories

What Theories Do

Every Siri is an explanation of facts and observations, a set of concepts and ideas that

organize the confusing mass of experiences that each of us encounter every minute

something areas are into some traffic narrow, and useless to anyone except the people who

thought of them developmental theory a systematic statement of general principles that

provide a friend Mark for understanding how and why peopor change as they grow older

It is more than a hunch or a pipe hypothesis, and is far more comprehensive than a folk

Norm is an average or unusual event or experience it is related to the word normal although

it has a slightly different meaning something to be outside the norm, but that doesn’t make it

abnormal to be abnormal implies that something is wrong, but norms are neither right nor

wrong and Norm is an average a common behavior mode norms can be calculated do not

confuse theories with norms or fax theories raise questions answered just hypotheses, and

they lead to research together empirical data the data are facts that suggest conclusions,

which May verify or refute some aspect of the theory a theory can’t begin with the process,

but the scientist developed hypotheses, design studies, and collect and analyze data that lead

to conclusions that undercut something Rees and modify others humans spontaneously

develop theories about everything they observe

Freud’s Ideas

Psychoanalytic theory originated with Sigmund Freud

According to fraud, development in the first six years of life occurs in three stages each

characterized by sexual interest and pleasure arising from a particular part of the body in

infancy that erotic body part is the mouth the oral stage

In early childhood is the anus the anal stage in the preschool years is the penis the phallic

stage a source of pride and fear among boys and a reason for sadness and NV among girls

after a quiet. Latin see and Jenna tail stage arrives at puberty lasting through aulthood

One of frogs most influential ideas with that each state includes its own struggles how