PSYC10004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Puberty, Defecation, Little Albert Experiment
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Eysenck (2009) 276 - 282 psychoanalytic theories: Both theories are not testable or verifiable learning theories: Social learning theory bandura theories of cognitive development: Information processing perspectives system theories of development. Personality development freud (1856-1939, neurologist): effects of conscious and unconscious process on development. Psychosexual as it posits that psychic energy are focused in different erogenous zones of the body. Behaviour motivated by need to satisfy basic drives and reduction of drives: Id basic drives, primitive structure, pleasure principle, untamed passions. Ego reality, mind"s link to external reality, reason and good sense. Superego conscience, enables child to control behaviour, develop moral, internalization of parent"s standards. Oral 0-18 months: oral satisfaction, sucking, eating, id controls. Phallic 3-6 years: interested in genitalia, curious of parent"s playmates. Latency 6 years puberty: sexual desires hidden in unconscious, intellectual and social pursuits. Genital puberty onwards: sexual energy directed to opposite sex peers.