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Oral - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔(0-1) Focus is on the mouth, weaning. First stage of
development where libido is centered in a baby's mouth. It gets much
satisfaction from putting all sorts of things in its mouth to satisfy libido, &
thus it demands. At this stage in life ate oral, or mouth orientated, such as
sucking, biting, breast-feeding.(ingestion, eating)
Anal - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔(1-3 yrs) Hold on/let go; toilet training. The libido now
become's focused on the anus & the child derives great pleasure from
defecating. The child is now fully aware that they are a person in their own
right & that their wishes can bring them into conflict with the demands of
the outside world.(potty training)
Phallic - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔(3-6 yrs) Oedipal/Electra conflict.Sensitivity now
becomes concentrated in the genitals. The child becomes aware of
anatomical sex differences. This is also the stage in which the process of
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,identification which involves the child adopting the characteristics of the
same sex parent is seen.(gender identity)
Latency - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔(6-12yrs) Reduced libidinal energy; focus is on
social skills & academics. No further psychosexual development takes
place during this stage. Freud thought that most sexual impulses are
repressed during the latent stage & sexual energy can be sublimated
towards school work, hobbies & friendships.(school, same sex partners)
Genital Stage - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔(12+yrs) Libido & affection combine to
produce mature sexual relationships. The last stage of Freuds
psychosexual theory of personality development & begins in puberty. It is a
time of adolescent sexual experimentation, the successful resolution of
which is settling down in a loving one to one relationship with another in our
20's or so. Sexual instinct is directed to heterosexual pleasure, rather than
self pleasure during the phallic stage.(puerty)
Freud Stages of Development - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Each stage represents the
fixation of libido (roughly translated as sexual drives or instincts) on a
different area of the body. As a person grows physically certain areas of
their body becomes important as sources of potential frustration
(erogenous zones), pleasure or both.
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, Jean Piaget - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Describes the development of knowledge.
Cognitive development stems from a drive toward cognitive equilibrium.
The first to study children in a scientific way, focused on how children
learned. Stated that children go through four stages of thinking that shape
how they see & learn about the world. Developed a comprehensive theory
about the nature & development of human intelligence ( a theory of
cognitive development).
Erik Erickson - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Personality develop's through stages. Each
stage include's a unique psychological crisis. If that crisis is met in a
positive way, the individual develops maturity. Parents & other caregivers
must be aware of a child's needs at particular stage & be sensitive to the
child's needs at the stage. Failure to properly master each step leads to
problems in the future.
Trust vs Mistrust - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔(0-1)At this stage babies learn to trust
that their parents will meet their basic needs.(feeding)
Autonomy vs Shame & Doubt - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔(2-3)As toddlers, children
begin to develop independence & start to learn that they can do some
things on their own ( such as going to the toilet). If a child is not
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Oral - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔(0-1) Focus is on the mouth, weaning. First stage of
development where libido is centered in a baby's mouth. It gets much
satisfaction from putting all sorts of things in its mouth to satisfy libido, &
thus it demands. At this stage in life ate oral, or mouth orientated, such as
sucking, biting, breast-feeding.(ingestion, eating)
Anal - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔(1-3 yrs) Hold on/let go; toilet training. The libido now
become's focused on the anus & the child derives great pleasure from
defecating. The child is now fully aware that they are a person in their own
right & that their wishes can bring them into conflict with the demands of
the outside world.(potty training)
Phallic - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔(3-6 yrs) Oedipal/Electra conflict.Sensitivity now
becomes concentrated in the genitals. The child becomes aware of
anatomical sex differences. This is also the stage in which the process of
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,identification which involves the child adopting the characteristics of the
same sex parent is seen.(gender identity)
Latency - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔(6-12yrs) Reduced libidinal energy; focus is on
social skills & academics. No further psychosexual development takes
place during this stage. Freud thought that most sexual impulses are
repressed during the latent stage & sexual energy can be sublimated
towards school work, hobbies & friendships.(school, same sex partners)
Genital Stage - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔(12+yrs) Libido & affection combine to
produce mature sexual relationships. The last stage of Freuds
psychosexual theory of personality development & begins in puberty. It is a
time of adolescent sexual experimentation, the successful resolution of
which is settling down in a loving one to one relationship with another in our
20's or so. Sexual instinct is directed to heterosexual pleasure, rather than
self pleasure during the phallic stage.(puerty)
Freud Stages of Development - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Each stage represents the
fixation of libido (roughly translated as sexual drives or instincts) on a
different area of the body. As a person grows physically certain areas of
their body becomes important as sources of potential frustration
(erogenous zones), pleasure or both.
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, Jean Piaget - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Describes the development of knowledge.
Cognitive development stems from a drive toward cognitive equilibrium.
The first to study children in a scientific way, focused on how children
learned. Stated that children go through four stages of thinking that shape
how they see & learn about the world. Developed a comprehensive theory
about the nature & development of human intelligence ( a theory of
cognitive development).
Erik Erickson - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Personality develop's through stages. Each
stage include's a unique psychological crisis. If that crisis is met in a
positive way, the individual develops maturity. Parents & other caregivers
must be aware of a child's needs at particular stage & be sensitive to the
child's needs at the stage. Failure to properly master each step leads to
problems in the future.
Trust vs Mistrust - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔(0-1)At this stage babies learn to trust
that their parents will meet their basic needs.(feeding)
Autonomy vs Shame & Doubt - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔(2-3)As toddlers, children
begin to develop independence & start to learn that they can do some
things on their own ( such as going to the toilet). If a child is not
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