PSYC 2076 Chapter 2: Child Psych. Ch. 2.docx
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Chapter 2 theoretical perspectives and research: perspectives on children. Here, we"re going to take a look at some various approaches to child development. A theory - a framework for everything we"ve learned so far . any phenomena. We have decades worth of research and a theory will help us to summarize it in on easy statement. We make those predictions in the form of a hypothesis these are testable predictions that we form from theories: psychodynamic perspective . Freud - behavior motivated by inner forces/conflicts/memories; little awareness being. Unconscious that part of the personality we don"t have access to . what freud believed controlled you. Three aspects of personality: id the only part of our personality that we"re born with it"s unconscious. The id is driven by the pleasure principle it wants what it wants now. Immediate gratification: ego actually deals with reality. Tries to satisfy the id while still trying to deal with reality.
