Theories of Human Development

<p>What happens to us in childhood plays a key role in who we are and how our relationships unfold as adults. Professor Malcolm W. Watson introduces you to six theories that have had the greatest influence on the study of human development.</p>

Syllabus

01: Introduction—The Value of Theories
02: The Early History of Child Study
03: Two Worldviews—Locke vs. Rousseau
04: Later History—Becoming Scientific
05: Freud's Psychodynamic Theory
06: How We Gain Contact with Reality—The Ego
07: Freud's Psycho-Sexual Stages
08: Erikson's Psycho-Social Theory
09: Erikson's Early Stages
10: Identity and Intimacy
11: Erikson's Later Stages—Adult Development
12: Bowlby and Ainsworth's Attachment Theory
13: How Nature Ensures That Attachment Will Occur
14: Development of Secure and Insecure Attachments
15: Early Attachments and Adult Relationships
16: Bandura's Social Learning Theory
17: Bandura's Self-Efficacy Theory
18: Piaget's Cognitive-Developmental Theory
19: Piaget's Early Stages
20: Concrete Operations
21: Piaget's Last Stage
22: Vygotsky's Cognitive-Mediation Theory
23: Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development
24: Conclusion—Our Nature and Development
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Malcolm W. Watson

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