DST 614- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 141 pages long!)

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Disability Studies
• Course: DST 614
• Professor: de

Document Summary

Theories of social & emotional development: psychoanalytic, object relations, interpersonal. World of the infant, separation individuation and attachment theory. In both freud"s and erikson"s theories, development is largely driven by biological maturation. For freud, behavior is motivated by the need to satisfy basic drives. These drives, and the motives that arise from them, are mostly unconscious and individuals often have only the dimmest understanding of why they do what they do. In erikson"s theory, development is driven by a series of developmental crises related to age and biological maturation. According to freud, in each successive stage, psychic energy--the biologically based, instinctual drives that fuel behavior, thoughts, and feelings--becomes focused in different erogenous zones, that is areas of the body that are erotically sensitive (e. g. mouth, anus and genitals) Freud believed that in each stage, children encounter conflicts related to a particular erogenous zone, and he maintained that their success or failure in resolving these conflicts affects their development throughout life.