Human Development-Chapter 2 Exam
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Maturationist Theory - ✔✔This emphasized the importance of genetics and evolution
and was based on the premise that growing children would recapitulate evolutionary
stages of species development as they grew up. Stanley Hall concluded that it would be
counterproductive to push a child ahead of any one developmental stage since each
stage laid the foundation for what was to follow.
Psychoanalytic Theory - ✔✔Freud's position within this theory was that a person's
psychological responses and behaviors were reflections of biological instinctual drives
Freud - ✔✔This well-known researcher posited that it was during our childhood, our
first 6 years, that we developed ways to resolve conflicts between the desire for pleasure
and the demands, often repressive, encountered in reality.
Oral Stage - ✔✔Birth to 1 (Freud)
Anal Stage - ✔✔Ages 1 to 3
Phallic Stage - ✔✔Ages 3 to 6
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, Latent Stage - ✔✔Ages 6 to 11
Genital Stage - ✔✔Ages 11 to 18
Psychosocial Development Theory - ✔✔Erikson presented this model emphasizing the
challenges and tasks presented across one's lifespan as key to understanding human
development.
Epigenetic Theory - ✔✔This means it focuses on both the biological and genetic origins
of behaviors as interacting with the direct influence of environmental forces over time.
(Erikson)
Erikson - ✔✔He posited that this biological unfolding in relation to our sociocultural
settings is done in stages of psychosocial development, where progress through each
stage is in part determined by our success, or lack of success, in all the previous stages.
8; Crises - ✔✔How many stages are in Erikson's model of development? What do they
all have in common?
Physiological Development - ✔✔Erickson felt that these psychosocial crises were based
on _______________ ____________interacting with the demands put on the individual
by parents and society
Trust vs. Mistrust - ✔✔Infant, ages 0-1 1/2 (Erikson)
Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt - ✔✔Toddler, ages 1-3 (Erikson)
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Maturationist Theory - ✔✔This emphasized the importance of genetics and evolution
and was based on the premise that growing children would recapitulate evolutionary
stages of species development as they grew up. Stanley Hall concluded that it would be
counterproductive to push a child ahead of any one developmental stage since each
stage laid the foundation for what was to follow.
Psychoanalytic Theory - ✔✔Freud's position within this theory was that a person's
psychological responses and behaviors were reflections of biological instinctual drives
Freud - ✔✔This well-known researcher posited that it was during our childhood, our
first 6 years, that we developed ways to resolve conflicts between the desire for pleasure
and the demands, often repressive, encountered in reality.
Oral Stage - ✔✔Birth to 1 (Freud)
Anal Stage - ✔✔Ages 1 to 3
Phallic Stage - ✔✔Ages 3 to 6
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, Latent Stage - ✔✔Ages 6 to 11
Genital Stage - ✔✔Ages 11 to 18
Psychosocial Development Theory - ✔✔Erikson presented this model emphasizing the
challenges and tasks presented across one's lifespan as key to understanding human
development.
Epigenetic Theory - ✔✔This means it focuses on both the biological and genetic origins
of behaviors as interacting with the direct influence of environmental forces over time.
(Erikson)
Erikson - ✔✔He posited that this biological unfolding in relation to our sociocultural
settings is done in stages of psychosocial development, where progress through each
stage is in part determined by our success, or lack of success, in all the previous stages.
8; Crises - ✔✔How many stages are in Erikson's model of development? What do they
all have in common?
Physiological Development - ✔✔Erickson felt that these psychosocial crises were based
on _______________ ____________interacting with the demands put on the individual
by parents and society
Trust vs. Mistrust - ✔✔Infant, ages 0-1 1/2 (Erikson)
Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt - ✔✔Toddler, ages 1-3 (Erikson)
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