PSY 2105 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Tabula Rasa, Psychosexual Development, Developmental Psychology
29 May 2016
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Dev psych: changes in behaviour and abilities across the lifespan. Materialism (hobbes): soul is meaningless, physical energy processes in the body (the brain) produces behaviour. Empiricism (locke): knowledge and thought derives from sensory experience, product of reflection of experience. Tabula rasa (blank slate at birth, all learned) Rousseau: children are born with innate knowledge that drives development (nativism) Herder: culture and language is crucial for human dev. Darwin: recapitulation ( developing from embryo to adult, animals go through stages resembling or representing successive stages in the evolution of their remote ancestors) Freud: psychosexual development stages for personality (5) (libido erogenous zones, can be fixated within stage if failed ), interactionist perspective. Erikson: 8 stage model, psychosocial development for identity. Theorectical: continuity (dev constant) vs. discontinuity (stage like), normative (universal dev) vs. idiographic (individ diff) Piaget schemes: cognitive structures organization: new knowledge merged with old.
