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• Human Behavior


  Refers to a voluntary or involuntary attitude of a person to adapt and fit society's values and ideas of what is right and wrong. It is the range of actions and mannerisms exhibited by humans in conjunction with their environment, responding to various stimuli or inputs, whether internal or external, conscious or subconscious, overt or covert, and voluntary or involuntary.
• Human Development


  A process in which a progressive series of changes occur as a result of maturation and experience. It is the process of a person's growth and maturation throughout their lifespan, concerned with the creation of an environment where people are able to develop their full potential, while leading productive and creative lives in accordance with their interests and needs.
• Four Pillars of Human Development

  • Equity
  • Sustainability
  • Production
  • Empowerment
• Equity


  The idea that every person has the right to an education and health care, that there must be fairness for all.
• Sustainability


  Encompasses the view that every person has the right to earn a living that can sustain him or her, while everyone also has the right to access to goods more evenly distributed among populations.
• Production


  The idea that people need more efficient social programs to be introduced by their governments.
• Empowerment


  The view that people who are powerless, such as women, need to be given power.
• Significant Facts about Development

  • Early foundation is critical
  • Roles of maturation and learning in development
  • Development follows a definite and predictable pattern
  • All individuals are different
  • Each phase of development has a characteristic behavior
  • Each phase of development has hazards
  • Development is aided by stimulation
  • Development is affected by cultural changes
  • There are social expectations for every stage of development
  • There are common traditional beliefs about people of all ages
• Id


  Allows us to get our basic needs met. Also called the pleasure principle. It refers to the selfish, primitive, childish pleasure-oriented part of the personality, with no ability to delay gratification.
• Ego


  The reality principle. The ego's job is to meet the needs of the id, whilst taking into account the constraints of reality. Ego is the moderator between the id and superego which seeks compromises to pacify both.
• Superego


  The conscience of man. It develops during the phallic stage as a result of the moral constraints placed on us by our parents. It internalizes society and parental standards of good and bad, right and wrong behavior.
• Levels of Awareness


  • Conscious Level
  • Preconscious Level
  • Unconscious Level
• Conscious Level


  Consists of whatever sensations and experiences you are aware of at a given moment of time.
• Preconscious Level


  This domain is sometimes called "available memory" that encompasses all experiences that are not conscious at the moment but which can easily be retrieved into awareness either spontaneously or with a minimum effort.
• Unconscious Level


  The deepest and major stratum of the human mind. It is the storehouse for primitive instinctual drives plus emotions and memories that are so threatening to the conscious mind that they have been repressed, or unconsciously pushed into the unconscious mind.
• Freud's Theory of Psychosexual Development describes the process by which human personality is developed throughout one's childhood.
• Stages of Psychosexual Development

  • Oral Stage (0-18 months)
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