child psyc test1

• psychoanlytic
• behaviorism
• emergent theory

proposes that irrational thoughts unconcsious drives and motives originate in childhood and underlie in human behavior

• (psycosexual)
• beleives at each stage sensual satisfactaion is linked to magor developmental needs

• follower of freud
• believed psycosocial
• had 8 developmental changes
• each identifies a particular challenge or crisis

• studies human behavior also known as learing thoery
• this theory directly opppeses that of psycoanalytic thoery

argues that psyc is a science and needs to observe and measure behavior

• classical
• operant
• social learning

through association with neutral stimulus becomes conditioned

thourough reinfrocement,week or raer responses become strong, frequent responese

through modeling, observed behaviors become copied behaviors

socialculture theory holds that development results from interactions between each person and culture focus

vygotes felt learning occured through social interactions

epicgentic development invloves genetic origins of bahaviors and influence of the enviroment over time

• focuses on the chnage in how people think over time
• our thought shape our attitude beliefs and behaviors
• jean piaget felt that cognitive development occurs in major periods

children think magically and poetically using language to understand the world thinking is egocentric causing childre to perceive the world from thier own perspective