01:830:331 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Phallic Stage, Psychosexual Development, Oral Stage

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:331
• Professor: Margaret Ingate

Document Summary

Psychoanalytic theories: view of children"s nature. Freud- behavior is motivated by the need to satisfy basic drives. Erikson- development is driven by a series of developmental crises related to age and biological maturation. Within the framework of discontinuous development, psychoanalytic theories stress the continuity of individual differences, emphasizing that children"s early experiences have a major impact on their subsequent development. The developmental process: helpless infant is hungry so it cries in order to be fed. Id: the earliest and most primitive personality structure. It is unconscious and operates with the goal of seeking pleasure. Include sucking and eating: ego: the second personality structure to develop. It is the rational, logical, problem-solving component of personality. Arises out of the need to resolve conflicts between the id"s unbridled demands for immediate gratification and the restraints imposed by the external world. During this time, children identify with their same-sex parent, giving rise to gender differences in attitudes and behavior.