[PSYC 300] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (50 pages long)
29 Mar 2017
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Child development area of study devoted to understanding constancy and change from conception through adolescence. Infancy and toddlerhood birth to 2 years. Theories help provide framework to view phenomenon. Continuous development a process of gradually adding more of the same types of skills that were there to begin with. Discontinuous development a process in which new ways of understanding and responding to the world emerge at specific times. Stages qualitative changes in thinking, feeling, and behaving that characterize specific periods of development. Stage theory (discontinuous) consisting of the id, ego and superego. Ego works as the mediator between the id and superego. Superego higher order thinking obtained in middle childhood. It is hard to test individual children and this theory cannot generalize: outdated. Sexual focus oral, anal (toilet-training), phallic (discovery of genitalia), abnormal family set-up (kids fall in love with their opposite sex parent) Differ from freud as they focus on the social aspect of our development.
