Theories of Human Development

<p>What happens to us in childhood plays a key role in who we are and how our relationships unfold as adults. Professor Malcolm W. Watson introduces you to six theories that have had the greatest influence on the study of human development.</p>

• By This Professor
• 01: Introduction—The Value of Theories
• 02: The Early History of Child Study
• 03: Two Worldviews—Locke vs. Rousseau
• 04: Later History—Becoming Scientific
• 05: Freud's Psychodynamic Theory
• 06: How We Gain Contact with Reality—The Ego
• 07: Freud's Psycho-Sexual Stages
• 08: Erikson's Psycho-Social Theory
• 09: Erikson's Early Stages
• 10: Identity and Intimacy
• 11: Erikson's Later Stages—Adult Development
• 12: Bowlby and Ainsworth's Attachment Theory
• 13: How Nature Ensures That Attachment Will Occur
• 14: Development of Secure and Insecure Attachments
• 15: Early Attachments and Adult Relationships
• 16: Bandura's Social Learning Theory
• 17: Bandura's Self-Efficacy Theory
• 18: Piaget's Cognitive-Developmental Theory
• 19: Piaget's Early Stages
• 20: Concrete Operations
• 21: Piaget's Last Stage
• 22: Vygotsky's Cognitive-Mediation Theory
• 23: Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development
• 24: Conclusion—Our Nature and Development