Test 3: Basically the Final Flashcards
Psychoanalytic theories traits:
- discontinuous or continuous?
- Individual differences or the same?
- Nature/nurture?
Discontinuous (stage theories)
Individual: early experiences –> later development
N/N- biology interacts with experience
Freud: Erogenous Zones
areas of the body that become erotically sensitive in successive stages of development
Freud: Psychic Energy
Biologically based, instinctual drives that energize behavior, thoughts and feelings
Erickson’s Psychosocial Development
Development driven by crisis related to age. Crisis is resolved for healthy development (people can be stuck)
Freud place emphasis on early ____ ____
emotional relationships:
- subjective experience
- unconscious mental activity
- foundation for attachment theory
Erickson emphasis on quest for identity in adolescence lead to…
Foundation for research on adolescence
Problems with psychoanalytic theories: Freud and Erickson
Too vague, not operationally defined. Some can’t be observed.
Explain behavior after the fact (post-hoc), hard/impossible to test or replicate
Learning Theorists Emphasize the role of ___ ___ in shaping behavior.
External factor
Learning theorist central development issues
Continuous
Individual difference because children learn differently
____ approaches have been based in learning principles
Therapeutic approaches
Contemporary theorists think that children play
a role in their own development
Social learning theory
Emphasizes observation and imitation rather than reinforcement, as primary mechanisms of development
Social learning theory (Albert Bandura)
Believed that most human learning is inherently social in nature and is based on observation of the behavior of other people
Vicarious reinforcement
Observing someone else receive a reward or punishment
Reciprocal determinism
Bandura’s concept that child-environment influences operation in both directions
Perceived self-efficacy
individual’s beliefs about how effectively he or she can control her or his behavior, thoughts, and emotions in order to achieve a desired goal.
4 important factors of social learning
Attention
Retention
Reproduction
Motivation(ARRM)
More likely to model individuals who are
High Status/prestige Mastery/models Similar to subject Ability to affect subject's future High competence, alleged experts, celebrities
Although Learning theories have inspired research and lead to practical applications like systematic desensitization, one drawback of their work is….
Lack of attention to biological influences
Major social cognition theorists
Selman, dodge, dweck
Social COGNITION theorist believe
Children are active processors of social info.
Children have ability to think and reason about their own and other people’s thoughts, feelings, motives and behaviors
Self-Socialization
Children play a very active role in their own socialization through activity preferences, friendship choices, etc.
Dodge emphasized role of ____ processes in social behavior
cognitive
Why do some children have hostile attribution bias?
physical abuse, see ambiguous actions as hostile