HLTC23H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1,8: Psychosexual Development, Long-Term Memory, Identity Crisis
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Psychoanalytic theories: freud and erickson: psychosexual development (freud) Chapter 1: focused on the origins of psychological traits. Id the total self-immersion (don"t care about anyone else) Identity crisis: period of inner conflict when one examines their values and makes decisions about their life roles. Behavioral and social cognitive theories: watson, gesell, skinner, and bandura: classical, operant conditioning and reinforcement. Cognitive theories: piaget: a child"s abilities to mentally represent the world and solve problems are a result of: Interaction of experience: maturation of neurological structures, scheme: action pattern or mental structure involved in acquiring or organizing knowledge. Internal cognitive structure that provides a procedure to follow specific circumstances. Babies sucking things: adaptation: interaction between the organism and the environment, assimilation: incorporation of new events or knowledge into existing schemes. Information-process theory: cognitive process of: encoding, storing, retrieving, and manipulating info for long term memory, str- limited in capacity, ltr- unlimited in capacity.
