9.2 Lifespan Theories — From Helpless Infant to Moral Adult | Psychology 2e
After this lesson you will be able to…
- Explore the fundamental question of how humans transform from infants to complex adults.
- Understand Freud's discontinuous stages and his lasting impact on developmental psychology.
- Learn Erikson's theory of lifelong development driven by social conflicts and competence.
- Examine Erikson's stages of Trust vs. Mistrust and Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt.
- Explore Erikson's stages of Identity, Intimacy, and Integrity in adolescence and adulthood.
- Understand Piaget's theory that children think differently and use schemata to organize the world.
- Differentiate between assimilation and accommodation using a toddler's learning example.
- Learn about the sensorimotor stage and the development of object permanence.
- Identify the characteristics and limitations of pre-operational thought, including egocentrism and lack of conservation.
- Understand how children in this stage grasp conservation and apply logic to concrete objects.
- Learn about the emergence of abstract thought and hypothetical reasoning in adolescence.
- Explore cognitive growth beyond Piaget, integrating logic with emotion and the brain's physical wiring.
- Understand how culture and social interaction shape cognitive development.
- Learn Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning stages using the Heinz dilemma.
- Distinguish between preconventional and conventional moral reasoning.
- Understand postconventional moral reasoning and the gap between reasoning and behavior.
- Learn Carol Gilligan's challenge to Kohlberg's bias and her care-focused moral framework.
- Review key developmental theories and consider the impact of digital environments on future development.
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(0)How does a helpless, babbling infant become a complex, reasoning adult? This lesson maps the grand architecture of human development through the major...
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Quiz: Theories of Human Development
FundamentalsAnswer each question based only on what was covered in the video lesson. No outside knowledge is needed — every answer can be found in the video.
Practice: Theories of Human Development
PracticeAnswer each question using what you learned in the video lesson. Questions progress from recall and understanding to application and analysis — do your best to explain your reasoning where prompted.