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 |
DEVELOPMENt: STAGE THEORIES
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