PSYC 2450 Chapter 2: Chapter 2
16 Nov 2017
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Three components of personality: freud propose that three components of personality develop and gradually become integrated in a series of five developmental psychosexual stages. Investigated the study of the emotional side of human development the loves, fears, anxieties, and other powerful emotions that play important roles in our lives. Cognitive-developmental viewpoint: no theorist has contributed mole to our understand of children"s thinking than. Four stages of cognitive development: sensorimotor stage (birth 2, pre-operational stage (2 7, concrete-operational stage (7-10, formal-operational stage (11/12 & beyond, see chart for details. Contributions and criticisms of vygotsky"s viewpoint: suggests that cognitive development varies across cultures depending on specific experiences. Contributions and criticisms of the information-processing viewpoint: filled in many of the gaps in piaget"s earlier theory. The ethological and evolutionary viewpoints: gesell believed that children, like plants, simply bloomed , following a pattern and timetable laid out in their genes, ethnology: the study of the bio evolutionary bases of behaviour and development.
