PSYC 2076 Final: Completed Final Study Guide
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Physical development: the body and the brain. Social-emotional development: connecting to others and understanding feelings: nature vs nurture, different types of research methods, three different methods of research are, observations, interviews/surveys directly to children or to others who know the children, tests. Chapter 2: why are theories important to the study of child development, theories help us to, organize, understand, predict, know freud"s stages of childhood development, freud believed our most basic drive is the sex drive. He outlined five stages in the child and adolescent development, which he called the psychosexual stages: oral 0-2 years, anal 2-3 years, phallic 3-6 years. Focus of pleasure is on the mouth, taking in. Focus of pleasure is on the anus, potty training. Focus of pleasure is on the penis for boys, clitoris for girls, Oedipus and electra crisis: latency 6-12 years olds. Sexual drive goes underground and gives energy to learning to be an adult, schooling: genital 12 and older.
