CHYS 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Tabula Rasa, Behaviorism

• School: Brock University
• Department: Child and Youth Studies
• Course: CHYS 1F90
• Professor: Lauren Mc Namara

Document Summary

A set of concepts and propositions that describe, organize, and explain a set of observations. An interaction (it"s an interaction of biology and environment) Psychoanalytic theories: conflict of individual"s instinct and societal norms for behaviour. Id (he thought humans had a basic instinct the id wants want it wants. I. e. the joker is an adult version of an id, he did want he want with no care. ) Ego (sense of balance; the middle ground between id and superego) Superego (this force that understands morals that are right and wrong, and controls the id) Stages propose shifts in focus on parts of body. Oral (birth 1 year) exploration with their mouths -> thumb-sucking. Anal (1 3 years) begins to exhibit some control over themselves; Phallic (3 6 years) becomes aware of the difference b/w girls&boys; Latency (6 -11 years) develops an ego; Viewed children as more active in development than freud. More emphasis on social and cultural influences on development.