Introduction Erik Erikson’s was a follower of Jean Piaget and his work/theory was inspired by Piaget and with the work he saw Piaget did, Erikson wanted to expand his theory, but with a different focus. Erik Erikson came up with the Psychosocial Theory and is...
The biggest advantage of Maslow’s speculation of motivating is that it’s far quite simple to apprehend and even layman can understand and relate to this idea due to the fact we all go through one or different factor of desires excellent pyramid at some stage...
Abraham Maslow is someone I consider to be one of the most famous psychologist known to my generation today. Even if they have never studied psychology or participated in ASB, almost everyone has heard of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Maslow’s take on psychology was problem-centered,...
Childhood is a very fragile time. Research has shown time and again that the development of a child into a functioning adult is directly related the experiences that the child goes through in their early stages of life. (Ellis and Bjorklund 2005) That is why...
Abraham Maslow is mostly known for his Hierarchy of Needs, something that we all learn about in one health class or another. This is only just a small part of his bigger theory of self-actualization. Friedman and Shustack described self-actualization as one’s “…innate process by...
Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) was introduced by Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky who was known for his sociocultural theory. Vygotsky was born November 17, 1896 in Orsha, Belarus (then Russian empire) and spent his childhood in Gomel. Lev read the Torah as a child and...
The Preoperational Stage The Preoperational stage is one out of four Piaget Stages. It occurs during the ages of two to seven years. There are limitations to the child’s thoughts during this stage. What the child sees is automatically what is real, to them. This...
Jean Piaget, a Swiss cognitive theorist who believed that children’s learning depends on reinforcements, such as rewards from adults. According to his cognitive- developmental theory, children actively construct knowledge as they explore their world (Berk, 2008). Piaget separated cognitive development into 4 main stages which...
Every so often, people ask the question is psychology a science? They might assume that psychology is just a bunch of individuals who talk about their feelings all the time. They may even claim that psychology is the study of the mind. However, psychology is...
Jean Piaget was the first psychologist to make a systematic study of cognitive development. Some of his contributions comprise of detailed observational studies of cognition in children, a stage theory of child cognitive development and a series of simple but insightful tests to reveal various...
Sigmund Freud says that “a dream is a disguised fulfillment of a repressed wish”. What he means is that every dream represents a wish fulfillment. Dreams represent the imaginary fulfillment of a wish or impulse in early childhood, before such wishes have been repressed. The...
It does not consider what is realistic nor does it have the ability to be logical or to consider what is moral. These limitations arise because the ID has no real awareness, it is just a collection of urges, it influences the mind by exerting...
Development is one of the most widely known perspectives on cognitive expansion. His theory includes four distinct stages in children which explain how the child constructs a mental model of its surroundings. The main goals seem to reach toward explaining the processes of how the...
Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung both author two separate Psychodynamic Theories of Personality. While former colleagues and even close friends at one time, differences related to their studies led to a falling out. After Jung and Freud’s split, Jung spoke about being in a suffocating...
Both Sigmund Freud and Erik Erikson believed that personality is developed in certain fixed stages. However, Erikson disagreed with some parts of Freud’s theory of psychosexual development so he modified this theory by creating his own theory of psychosocial development. Both of these theories focus...
Erik Ericson was a psychologist who was heavily influenced by another doctor named Sigmund Freud. While Freud spoke from a psychosexual perspective, Erikson was a little different and spoke about the psychosocial stages. He speaks the super ego and id of a human, certain crisis...
Fluctuating Fears of Incompetence Erik Erikson developed the idea of competence as a result of adequately learning to cope with the environment through industriousness and inferiority. The Fear of Appearing Incompetent Scale was published in the 1970’s to assess how well this crisis was handled...
Stereotypes and presumptions about sex have always permeated American culture and society. From taboos to perversions to fetishes, sex and the things that come with it; relationships, marriages, and all else, have been fraught with misunderstanding. For most of history, human sexuality remained an unexplored...
Patricia Highsmith, the author of The Talented Mr. Ripley, portrays a protagonist on the precipice of insanity. Mr. Ripley shows many qualities of a person with borderline personality disorder, or more commonly called: a psychopath. A book titled, The Mask of Sanity by Hervey Cleckley,...