comparisons : views on development

• psychodynamic approach


  It provides a coherent theory of child development by discussing the psychosexual stages which are determined by age.

  
  

  However, it stops at the genital stage (teenage years) and sees no further development.
• cognitive approach


  It uses stage theories ( moral development and gender development) which aid our understanding of child development.
• biological approach


  Age and maturation are concepts of the approach in which genetically determined changes in physiology influence behavioural characteristics.
• humanistic approach & social learning theory

  They don't use stage theories of child development but they see learning as continuous occurring at any stage.