Developmental Psychology

After taking a general look at psychology and some of its major theories, we will trace psychological thought about the human life by focusing on human development. We will look at models of human development put forward by Saint Thomas Aquinas and other Catholic philosophers, Jean Piaget, Sigmund Freud, Erik Erikson, and Lawrence Kohlberg, as well as a few others. Students will not only learn about psychology, they will also learn a lot about themselves.

Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Frued & Erikson

Defense Mechanisms
  • Personality will defend itself from pain.

  • Problems sometimes caused by these defenses.

  • Repression
Stages Of Development
  • Libido = “sexual energy”

  • Seeks pleasure and gratification

  • Fixes itself to different body parts at different stages of development
Stages Of Development
  • Fixation = failure to successfully negotiate stage

  • Stages Of Development

  • Development is sudden & violent

  • No going back once fixation occurs.

Erik Erikson
Psychosocial
Theory of Development
Background

  • Freudian psychologist

  • Disagreed with Freud’s emphasis on unconscious and on sex & aggression

  • Background

  • Manassouri school

  • freedom of choice

  • social interaction

posted by Jeffrey @ Wednesday, September 14, 2005

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