Development Across the Life Span- Feldman Chapter 1

A scientific approach to questions about growth, change, and stability in the physical, cognitive, social, and personality characteristics at all ages and contraception to death.

Theory which focuses on inner, largely unconscious forces

Theory which focuses on external, observable behavior, and outside stimuli in their environment

Theory that focuses on the processes that allow people to know, understand, and think about the world.

Theory that contends that people have a natural capacity to make decisions about their lives and control their behavior.

Theory which focuses on the relationship between individuals and their physical, cognitive, personality, and social worlds.

The theory which focuses on our genetic inheritance.

The raw, unorganized, inborn part of personality present at birth that represents primitive drives related to hunger, sex, aggression, and irrational impulses.

The part of personality that is rational and reasonable. Acts as a buffer between outside world and the permitted id.

That aspect of personality that represents a person's conscious, incorporating distinctions between right and wrong. It develops about age 5 or six. Learn from parents, teachers, and other significant figures.

Freud's theory of development that states there are a series of stages that children pass through in which pleasure, or gratification, is focused on a particular biological function and body part.

Oral

Anal

Phallic

Latency