PSYC 250 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Little Albert Experiment, Social Cognition, Operant Conditioning

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 250
• Professor: Tyler Wereha

Document Summary

Freud: behavior motivated by need to satisfy basic drives: drives and motives are mostly unconscious. Erikson: development driven by developmental crises related to age and biological maturation; healthy development requires successful resolving of crises. Stage theories, but stress continuity of individual diferences: early experience impacts subsequent development. Physical symptoms explained by feelings of guilt, anxiety, or fear. Many emotional problems in adulthood began in early childhood relationships (esp. with parents) Every child has sexual nature motivating behavior and inluencing relationships. Psychic energy (biological drives) focused on diferent erogenous zones in each stage: each stage is a conlict an erogenous zone failure to resolve it = ixation. Infancy: oral stage (1st year of life: helpless, has drives(esp. hunger), causes tension that it doesn"t know how to reduce causes distress mother breastfeeds baby satisfaction, intense pleasure for baby, driven by id. Later begins developing into individual"s sense of self.