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DEVELOPMENt: STAGE THEORIES

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Cognitive Development
Psychosexual
Psychosocial
Moral
Oral Stage, Anal Stage, Phallic Stage, Genital Stage
infants seek pleasure through their mouths
stage develops during potty training ( fixation can leave to retentiveness or expulsivity)
babies realize their gender and cause conflict in the family ( Oedipus and Electra Complex)
latency stage, then focus of sexual pleasures
Sensorimotor, Preoperational, and Concrete Operational Stages
babies explore their world by using only their senses
acquiring the scheme of object permanence, start to use symbols
children learn to think more logically about complex relationships
babies do not realize that objects continue to exist even when out os sight
cannot look at the world from another's perspective
properties of objects remain the same even when the shape changes
final stage results in adult reasoning
most likely to avoid punishment
moral reasoning, making a moral choice based on how others view them
moral reasoning, self defined principles

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