PSYC 250 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Ethology, Child Murder, Attribution Bias

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 250
• Professor: Tanya Broesch

Document Summary

Chapter 9: theories of social development: psychoanalytic theories: Behaviour is motivated by need to satisfy basic drives. Discontinuous stages of development but stresses continuous individual differences of early childhood experiences having a major impact on subsequent development. There are biological drives that fuel behaviour, thoughts and feelings. Each stage involves a conflict with the drive in an erogenous zone (areas erotically sensitive) and success or failure to resolve conflict is the difference between developing or stalling, creating problems in later life: 3 different drives: Ruled by pleasure principle; goal is maximum gratification, with little regard for consequence. In infancy satisfaction of hunger is greatest pleasure. Baby/ mother relationship is strongest/ most important to baby: ego: second to develop, the ego is the rational, problem- solving logical that helps mitigate id"s pleasure seeking with external restraints. Operates under reality principle; satisfy the id within the demands of the world.