Theories

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• Main focus: Personality, psychoanalytic Key concepts: id, ego, super ego; psychosexual conflicts; defence mechanisms STAGE THEORY

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• Main focus: Personality; psychosocial Key concepts: lifespan development; psychosocial crisis STAGE THEORY

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• Main focus: personality (social, emotional self) Key concepts: birth of psychological self; separation-individuation STAGE THEORY

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• Main focus: personality (interpersonal, cognitive, emotional self) Key concepts: Interpersonal sense of self; RIGS STAGE THEORY

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• Main focus: Learning Key concepts: Operant conditioning, reinforcement, punishment

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• Main focus: learning Key concepts: Classical conditioning

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• Main focus: Cognitive (thinking, problem solving) Key concepts: Schemes, assimilation, accommodation, equilibrium, mental space (Neo-piagetian) STAGE THEORY

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• Main focus: cognitive; problem-solving skills and capabilities Key concepts: skill acquisition; optimal performance; higher level skills PROCESS-ORIENTED THEORY

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• Main focus: cognitive; processing of info; problem solving and other mental abilities Key concepts: sensory register; STM; LTM; metacognition, knowledge base, control processes PROCESS-ORIENTED THEORY

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• Main focus: Adaptation to biological and ethological contexts Key concepts: Behavioural dispositions; evolutionary adaptations PROCESS-ORIENTED THEORY

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• Main focus: interactive contextual influences Key concepts: microsystem, exosystem, mesosystem, macrosystem PROCESS-ORIENTED THEORY

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• Main focus: contextual; cultural/historical influences Key concepts: Dialogues; zone of proximal development (ZPD) PROCESS-ORIENTED THEORY

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• Main focus: individual change within social and historical contexts Key concepts: Multiple organisational levels of reciprocal, dynamic change; social trajectories

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• Main focus: personality (social, behaviour, life structure, coping mechanisms) Key concepts: Adult development; mature coping mechanisms (Vaillant); eras; transitions, and life structures (Levinson). STAGE THEORY

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• Main focus: Personality (social, behaviour, life structure) Key concepts: Adult development; normative & non-normative events; social clock PROCESS-ORIENTED

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• Main focus: Change is ongoing Key concepts: Biological makeup, differences in individual skills STAGE-LIKE

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• Main Focus: learning behaviour, cognitive response patterns, social roles Key concepts: imitation, social learning, modelling, cog. learning, reciprocal determinism, skills, capabilities PROCESS-ORIENTATED