PSYC 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Developmental Psychology, Psychoanalysis
30 May 2018
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PSYC 2110 Lecture 16 Notes
Introduction
New Theories
• In many areas of science, new theories are often revisions or modifications of old
theories.
• But i Freud’s da, there ere fe old theories of hua deelopet to odif.
• Freud was truly a pioneer, formulating his psychoanalytic theory from the thousands of
notes and observations he made while treating patients for various kinds of emotional
disturbances.
• Freud’s highl reatie ad uorthodo theorizig soo attrated a lot of attention.
• “hortl after the puliatio of Freud’s earliest theoretial oographs, the
International Journal of Psychoanalysis was founded and other researchers began to
report their tests of Freud’s thikig.
• By the mid-93s, uh of Freud’s ork had been translated into other languages and
the impact of psychoanalytic theory was felt around the world.
• Oer the ears, Freud’s theor otiued to geerate e researh ad propt other
researhers to reise ad eted Freud’s thikig.
• The field of developmental psychology was thriving by the time Freud died in 1939.
• Freud’s ork—ad other sietists’ reatios to it—aptly illustrate the role that theories
play in the science of human development.
• Although the word theory is an imposing term, theories are something that everybody
has.
• If we were to ask you why males and females appear to be very different as adults when
they seem so very similar as infants, you would undoubtedly have some opinions on the
issue.
• Your answer would state or at least reflect your own underlying theory of the
development of sex differences.
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