Theories of Development

Question 1

What do theories do?

Answer 1

• Provide hypotheses
• generate discoveries (results)
• offer practical guidance

Question 2

Psychoanalytical Theory

Answer 2

emphasizes that human actions and thoughts originate from unconscious impulses and childhood conflict (Freud)

Question 3

What are the 3 sexual stages Freud theorized about childhood developmental stages?

Answer 3

Oral, anal, and phallic

Then after latency, the genital stage

Question 4

Behaviorism

Answer 4

A grand theory of human development that studies observational behavior AKA learning theory because it describes the laws and processes by which behavior is learned

Question 5

Cognitive Theory

Answer 5

thoughts and expectations profoundly affect attitudes, beliefs, values, assumptions, and actions (focuses on changes in how people think over time)

Question 6

Who was the 1st major cognitive theorist?

Answer 6

Jean Piaget

Question 7

Piaget says cognitive development occurs in 4 stages which include:

Answer 7

1. ) Sensorimotor
2. ) Preopperational
3. ) Concrete Operational
4. ) Formal Operational

Question 8

Sensorimotor Stage

Answer 8

infants use senses and motor abilities to understand the world. Learning is active without reflection

Question 9

Vygotsky

Answer 9

Sociocultural theory-human development results from the dynamic interaction between developing persons and their surroundings society

Question 10

Maslows hierarchy of needs

Answer 10

1. Physiological
2. Safety
3. Love and belonging
4. Esteem
5. Self-actualization