Human Growth and Development

Theories of Development
- What is a theory?
- What is a hypothesis?
- How do you test a hypothesis?
Psychoanalytic Theories
- Psychosexual Theory (Freud)
  - Primary motivator: sex
  - Structure of Personality
  - Stages of Development
- Psychosocial Theory (Erikson)
  - Primary motivator: affiliation with others
  - Stages
Cognitive Theories
- Cognitive Development Theory (Piaget)
  - Driven by organization & adaptation
  - Qualitative differences from one stage to the next
- Information Processing Theory
  - Continuous
  - Automatization
  - Computer analogy
Behavioral Theories
- Classical Conditioning (Pavlov)
  - stimulus-response
- Operant Conditioning (Skinner)
  - Behavior has consequences
  - Reinforcement
  - Punishment
Social Cognitive Theory
- observational learning
Ethological Theory
- Biology, evolution, critical periods
- Bowlby's Attachment Theory
Types of Research
- Descriptive
  - Observation
  - Survey/Interviews
  - Standardized tests
  - Case study
- Correlational Research
- Experimental
Time Span of Research
- Longitudinal
- Cross-sectional
- Cohort effects
- Sequential