Week 1: Adult Development Theories
Adult Development Theories- -Week 1
Chapter 2 discusses theories of development such as psychoanalytic theories, Learning Theories, and Cognitive Theories. Choose a specific theorist, such as Freud, Erikson, Pavlov, Skinner, or Bandura, and summarize their theory and connect it with your own life or experiences. Respond to at least two of your fellow students’ postings by Day 7. (You must create one initial post and at least two responses, for a minimum of three posts for this discussion.)
psychoanalytic theories: Theories proposing that developmental change happens because of the influence of internal drives and emotions on behavior.
Learning Theories: Theories that assert that development results from an accumulation of experiences.
Cognitive Theories: Theories that emphasize mental processes in development, such as logic and memory.
Piagets cognitive development theory: based many of his ideas on naturilistic observations of children of different ages on playgrounds and in schools. Critics of information-processing approach doesn’t always acurately describe how memory works in the real world. Neo-piagetian theories expand on Piaget’s theory rather than contradict it. According to neo-Piagetinas, older children and adults can solve complex problems like thos on Piaget’s reaserch because they can hold more pieces of information in their short-term memories at the same time than younger children can. Some people use more efficent strategies for remembering and solving problems than others. Differences in prior knowledge also affect memory. For example if you have already taken a psych9ology course, you are likely to have an easier time remembering and understanding what you read in this
Chapter 2 discusses theories of development such as psychoanalytic theories, Learning Theories, and Cognitive Theories. Choose a specific theorist, such as Freud, Erikson, Pavlov, Skinner, or Bandura, and summarize their theory and connect it with your own life or experiences. Respond to at least two of your fellow students’ postings by Day 7. (You must create one initial post and at least two responses, for a minimum of three posts for this discussion.)
psychoanalytic theories: Theories proposing that developmental change happens because of the influence of internal drives and emotions on behavior.
Learning Theories: Theories that assert that development results from an accumulation of experiences.
Cognitive Theories: Theories that emphasize mental processes in development, such as logic and memory.
Piagets cognitive development theory: based many of his ideas on naturilistic observations of children of different ages on playgrounds and in schools. Critics of information-processing approach doesn’t always acurately describe how memory works in the real world. Neo-piagetian theories expand on Piaget’s theory rather than contradict it. According to neo-Piagetinas, older children and adults can solve complex problems like thos on Piaget’s reaserch because they can hold more pieces of information in their short-term memories at the same time than younger children can. Some people use more efficent strategies for remembering and solving problems than others. Differences in prior knowledge also affect memory. For example if you have already taken a psych9ology course, you are likely to have an easier time remembering and understanding what you read in this