Exam 1 Flashcards
(94 cards)
Five basic questions of developmental research
What is the nature of the child, What drives development?, WHat is the child’s role in development?, How does development progress? Can we tell the future from the past?
Continuous Development
Gradually goes up
Discontinuous development
Stages
methodology: how change is captured
cross-sectional, longitudinal, and/or both
Methodology: Data
reports, observational methodologies, biological measures
methodology: design methods
correlational (not controlled), experimental (controlled)
narratives
hybrid between observations and clinical interviews
naturalistic observation
watching child behavior as free-flowing
structed observation
observing in context of home or lab
Biological measures
psychophysiological measures, genetic, brain activity/imaging, hormones, EEG, Cortisol collection, cheek swab
Cross-Sectional designs
collect data from children of different ages
Longitudinal design
collect data from same children over time
Cross-sectional/longitudinal
collect data from different cohorts over time
Psychoanalytic Theory (Freud)
a comprehensive model of personality development based on analysis of free associations, dreams, and other unconscious behaviors
Biological Instincts
eros (life): positive
Thantos (death): destructive
the role of socialization in psychoanalytic theory
to harness, control, channel basic biological instincts
Psychoanalytic theory (Freud): personality as a system
Superego, Ego, ID
Superego
perfection principle: internal censor, should nots, judgemental, interanlized standards, guilt
Ego
Reality Principle: seeks realistic and acceptable ways to satisfy the ID, deliberate, conscious, rational
ID
pleasure principle: passions, insticts, emotions, seeks gradification, impulsive, unconcious
Major driving force of personality development
conflicts between biological needs (ID) and society’s dictates
Psychoanalytic Theory (Freud): stages of personality development
0-1 the oral stage
1-3 anal stage
3-6 the phallic stage
6-12 latency stage
12+ genital stage
Psychoanalytic Theory (Freud): defense mechanisms
strategies the mind adopts to deal with anxiety, tension, threatening, or unacceptable thoughts and emotions; repression, projection, denial, rationalization, regression
Psychoanalytic Theory (Freud): Genius of Freud
proposed system approach to personality, power of affect, early affective experience, unconcious processes, critical early relationships