Most Difficult: 1.) One concept that was difficult for me to understand was the Sigmant Freud theory. I do understand that Freud marked the foundation of the psychoanalytic theory; however, many contemporary developmentalists rejected some of his ideas. 2.) Where I got stuck on is Freud’s psychosexual stages. What I didn’t understand was how a child’s actions can affect their later development as individuals. After closely examining the stages of Freud, I realized that he is saying, if people become
The humanistic, behaviorism and psychodynamic approach all come to the same conclusion that behavior is staggered from nurture rather than nature, even though behaviorism counteracts and takes nature into consideration. Behaviourism was originated by john Watson in the twentieth century, which concluded of observational experiments of humans and animals that support the theories of psychologists in environmental factors of our behaviour rather than internal concepts although they do lack ecological
only what they can see and measure. According to Watson if psychologists focus on behavior they will realize that everything can be learned. Other psychologists, especially in the United States, agreed. They developed behaviorism, to study actual behavior. This is called learning theory because it describes how people learn and develop habits. Children learn and develop habits from the parents of guardians in their life. Habits such as smoking or drinking. If the child is around smoking all their life