person's conscious efforts to balance innate pleasure-seeking drives with demands of society
ego
cultural values and norms internalized by individual
superego
the world is bewildering assortment of PHYSICAL SENSATIONS that bring either PLEASURE or PAIN
to the id-centered child
child learns MORAL CONCEPTS of rRIGHT & WRONG, they feel good or bad accdg to how they judge their behavior against cultural norms
as superego develops
id and superego remain in conflict, but in a well-adjusted person, these opposing forces can be managed with the help of this
ego
if _____ are not resolved during childhood, Freud claims that they may surface as PERSONALITY DISORDERS later on
conflicts
_____, in the form of superego REPRESSES selfish demands, forcing ppl to look beyond their own desires
culture
often the competing demands of self and society results in a compromise that Freud calls as ____
sublimation
what redirects selfish drives into socially acceptable behavior?
Sublimation
ex of sublimation: _____ makes satisfaction of sexual urges as socially acceptable
marriage
ex of sublimation: competitive ____ are outlet for aggression
sports
swiss psychologist who studied human COGNITION
Jean Piaget
refers to how people think and understand
cognition
as piaget watched his own 3 children grow, he wondered not just what they knew but also how they made sense of the world and proposed this theory
theory of cognitive development
level of human development at w/c indivs experience world only through their SENSES
sensorimotor stage
level of human dev't at w/c indivs first use language & other symbols
preoperational stage
level of human dev't at w/c indiv first see casual connections in their surroundings
concrete operational stage
level of human dev't at w/c indivd think abstractly & critically
formal operational stage
he built on Piaget's work to study moral reasoning
Lawrence Kohlberg
refers to how indivs judge situation as right or wrong
moral reasoning
Kohlberg's moral reasoning of development that occurs in stages
theory of moral dev't (1981)
equivalent to Piaget's sensorimotor stage
preconventional level
at this early stage, rightness amounts to what feels good to me
preconventional level
equivalent to piaget's formal operational stage
conventional level
at this point, young ppl lose some of their selfishness as they learn to define what is right and wrong in the terms of what pleases parents and conforms to cultural norms. indivs at this stage begins to assess intention in reaching moral judgment instead of simply looking at what ppl do
conventional level
ppl move beyond their society's norm to consider abstract ethical principles (e.g., liberty, freedom, justice; arguing what is legal may still not be morally right)
postconventional level
her approach is highlighted in Thinking about Diversity box, she compared moral dev't of girls and boys and concluded that 2 sexes use diff. standards of rightness
Carol Gilligan
boys rely on formal rules to define what is right and wrong
justice perspective
girls judge a situation with an eye toward personal relationships and loyalties
care & responsibility perspective
what is carol gilligan's theory?
theory of gender and moral development
he lived in vienna at a time when most europeans considered human behv to be biologically fixed
trained as physician
gradually studies personality and mental disorders
sigmund Freud
what theory did freud developed?
theory of psychoanalysis
freud claimed that _____ plays a major part in human devt, although not in terms of specific instincts, as in the case of other species
biology
freud theorized that humans have how many basic needs or drives that are present at birth?
2
these opposing forces of drives accdg to freud is operating at an _____ level and create deeper tension
unconscious
although some analysts including Freud point to childhood as crucial time when personality takes shape, he took a broader view of socialization. who is he?
erik h. erikson
theory of Erikson where he explained that we face challenges throughout life course