PSYC 304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Abraham Maslow, Tabula Rasa, Systematic Desensitization
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Psychoanalysis freud (second force: psychosexual development, sex drive and aggressive drive problematic if activated earlier. Development disturbed if sex drive is activated before its time: looked mostly at the malfunctions of development. Psychodynamic erickson: psychosocial, personality a combination of bodily changes and social responses = psychological virtue, conflict provides the opportunity for excellence. Behaviorism (first force: skinner/pavlov/watson/thorndike, all behavior is learned. Believes that humans have no built in traits: behavior is all nurture. What makes us healthy/live a good life: humanistic, existential, constructivists, transpersonal, abraham maslow (hierarchy of needs)/c. Timelines for kids - when can they do tasks. Everyone should do this about the same age. Ld/gifted: information processing develops out of computer development. Emphasizes how we manipulate information, monitor it and strategize with it: attention, memory, decision making, goal setting reverse engineer of mind: vygotsky: socio-cultural approach explains cognitive development in relation to context of social and cultural factors. Particularly how educational systems can help draw individual children forward.
