PSYC 2013 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Phallic Stage, Genital Stage, Classical Conditioning
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Theories: produce hypotheses, generate discoveries, offer practical guidance. Developmental theory - group of ideas, assumptions, and generalizations that interpret and illuminate the thousands of observations that have been made about human growth. Theory provides a framework for explaining the patterns and problems of development. Psychoanalytic theory (freud & erikson: theory of human development that holds that irrational, unconscious drives and motives, often origination in childhood, underlie human behavior, freud (psychosexual, development in stages. Intimacy vs isolation, generativity vs stagnation, integrity vs despair. Even without specific reinforcement, every individual learns many things through observation and imitation of other people: modeling - copying what other people do. Information processing: perspective that compares human thinking processes, by analogy, to computer analysis of data, including sensory input, connections, stored memories and output. Instead of interpreting responses by infants and children, focus on the processes of thought - why, when, and how neurons fire to activate a thought.
