Theories of Human Development (Audiobook) | Date: 09 April 2011, 15:40
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Have you ever wondered where the terms "terrible twos’’ and "identity crisis" come from?
Did you know that the notion that children are different from adults, and require special care, is only about 200 years old?
Did you know we can trace most of our modern ideas about children to just two renowned thinkers of the 17th and 18th centuries?
These are just a few of the fascinating aspects of the field of "human development": the science that studies how we learn and develop psychologically, from birth to the end of life. To a large extent, the study of human development is the study of child development, because the most significant changes take place from infancy through adolescence. This very young science not only enables us to understand children and help them develop optimally, but also gives us profound insights into who we are as adults.
In Theories of Human Development, Professor Malcolm W. Watson introduces you to the six theories that have had perhaps the greatest influence on this field. You will meet the people who formulated each theory, become familiar with their philosophical backgrounds and the historical contexts in which they worked, and study the specific processes of human development that each theory describes.
Along the way, you will evaluate the strength and weaknesses of each theory. How do these six great theories complement or contradict one another? What do they tell us, as a whole, about human development?
[b]Six Theories of How We Become Who We Are[/b]
The six major theories have had a pervasive impact on the way we, both scientists and the general public, see ourselves. They are:
[list][*][b]Sigmund Freud’s Psychodynamic Theory.[/b] The lectures discuss this theory, the earliest of the six, including such concepts as the Oedipus Complex and Freud’s five stages of psycho-sexual development. Although now widely disputed, Freudian thinking is deeply imbedded in our culture and constantly influences our view of human nature.
[*][b]Erik Erikson’s Psycho-Social Theory.[/b] This is the theory that gave rise to the term "identity crisis." Erikson was the first to propose that the "stages" of human development spanned our entire lives, not just childhood. His ideas heavily influenced the study of personality development, especially in adolescence and adulthood.
[*][b]John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth’s Integrated Attachment Theory.[/b] This was the first theory to focus primarily on the formation of parent-child relationships. It explains the connection between relationships that occur early in our lives and those that happen later, including romantic ones. Attachment theory has generated thousands of scientific studies, and has led to changes in many childcare policies, such as those allowing parents to stay with their children in hospitals.
[*][b]Albert Bandura’s Social Learning Theory.[/b] This theory modified traditional learning theory developed by such behaviorists as B. F. Skinner, which was based on stimulus-response relationships. It considered learning to be no different among infants, children, adults, or even animals. Bandura’s approach is influential in such areas as the effect of media violence on children, and the treatment of problem behaviors and disorders.
[*][b]Jean Piaget’s Cognitive-Developmental Theory.[/b] Piaget’s influence created a revolution in human development theory. He proposed the existence of four major stages, or "periods," during which children and adolescents master the ability to use symbols and to reason in abstract ways. This has been the most influential of the six major theories. In the 1970s and 1980s, it completely dominated the study of child development.
[*][b]Lev Vygotsky’s Cognitive-Mediation Theory.[/b] Alone among the major theorists, Vygotsky believed that learning came first, and caused development. He theorized that learning is a social process in which teachers, adults, and other children form supportive "scaffolding" on which each child can gradually master new skills. Vygotsky’s views have had a large impact on educators.
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[hide=Course Lecture Titles][list][*]1. Introduction—The Value of Theories
[*]2. The Early History of Child Study
[*]3. Two Worldviews—Locke vs. Rousseau
[*]4. Later History—Becoming Scientific
[*]5. Freud's Psychodynamic Theory
[*]6. How We Gain Contact with Reality—The Ego
[*]7. Freud's Psycho-Sexual Stages
[*]8. Erikson's Psycho-Social Theory
[*]9. 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. Conclusions—Our Nature and Development
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