PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Lawrence Kohlberg, Jean Piaget, Agreeableness
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5 class notes development: adolescence and adulthood. Early views on development: psychologists believed that are our traits are established and set in childhood. Big five personality traits (neuroticism, extroversion, openness, agreeableness, conscientiousness: freud missed something (2:04) psychosexual theory of development. Is complete by sixth birthday who we are as humans is set by the time we are six: jean piaget argued that the ultimate stage of cognitive development is done by puberty. Current views on development: human development is a lifelong process, experiences in infancy and childhood are formative, but they are not the only times when we develop. Historical changes in conceptualization: development is influenced by the socioeconomic missed something (2:11, world war i and ii. Young people were needed (factory work or military service) Young people were tended to be described as competent, responsible, and capable. Adolescence ends around 16: 1890s and 1930s. Periods of economic depression, meaning work was difficult to find.