EAR-20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Erogenous Zone, Unbridled, Anal Stage
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1) explain how children"s development is influenced by the people and individuals around them. 2) examine the ways that human beings affect each other. These theories focus on how a child"s early experience will create unconscious dynamics that forever exert an influence on the personality. Emphasize biological underpinnings of development interacting with the child"s experience freud. Emphasize individual differences: early experiences shape subsequent development. In both freud and erikson"s theories, development is largely driven by biological maturation. Both of their theories are stage theories stress overall discontinuity in development. 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. In order to receive healthy development, the individual must successfully resolve these crises. Proposed that children pass through a series of universal developmental stages. In each following stage, psychic energy becomes focused in different erogenous zones.
