The author points out that there is nothing magical or sudden about the developmental shift around age two in infants. Lancan is unique among psychoanalysts in directly relating human sexuality and the signifying power.FurthCatholicUniversityHansCatholicUniversityG.CatholicUniversitySocial Development...
Retreating to an earlier level of development or to earlier, less demanding habits or situations. Ex: a child starting school for the first time to cling to his parents, suck his thumb, and cry, trying to return to a more secure time. ...
Adults who engage in self-directed learning self-evaluate to identify their educational needs and then choose their own paths to realize them. They take control of every step: find necessary resources, plan learning activities, and evaluate their success. While selecting appropriate learning materials,...
Categories of theory relating to risk-taking, identified from the 32 publications. 1. Lack of social integration Durkheim (1952) theorised that strong social ties could protect against an extreme form of risk-taking (suicide), a theory applied to youth suicide (Eckersley & Dear, 2002; Willis...
Vygotsky (1978) states: “Every function in the child’s cultural development appears twice: first, on the social level, and later, on the individual level; first, between people (interpsychological) and then inside the child (intrapsychological). This applies equally to voluntary attention, to...
A child who is usually very restless sits for five minutes doing an assignment (the operant). The teaching assistant compliments him for working hard (the reinforcement). A sixth-grader takes home a book from the classroom library to read overnight (the operant). When she returns the book...
It shows how we end up sort of relating to our own kids and some of the issues that transfer across those different vectors. [00:46:14] With regard to cults and sort of conspiracy theories that are organized around a kind of buying into a group identity, one of the things that we'...
A variety of different proposals have attempted to explain the apparent uniqueness of human cumulative culture as a consequence of underlying mechanisms that are also assumed to be uniquely well-developed in humans. Recently, Heyes and colleagues have pr
family–peer relationships; parenting; peer relations; child and adolescent development; child and adolescent social development1. Themes and Theories Revisited: Perspectives on Processes in Family–Peer Relationships Nearly thirty years ago, we invited a consortium of esteemed researchers to contribute to...
Understanding personality is also a key to unlocking elusive human qualities, for example, leadership, motivation, and empathy, whether your purpose is self-development, helping others, or any other field relating to people and how we behave. The personality theories that underpin personality tests...