In Sigmund Freud’s Psychosexual Theory, he proposed that the behavior and development of a person are influenced by the interaction between the conscious and unconscious aspects of that person’s mind.| The Psychology Notes Headquarters
The First Five Years A few months after it is born, an infant starts to babble and coo. These meaningless sounds signify the initial stage in the development of language, which proceeds at an unbelievably rapid rate during the first five years of a child’s life. Babbling increasingly starts to approximate the language spoken by the child’s caregivers, initially through...| The Psychology Notes Headquarters
What is cognitive development? Cognitive development is an area of study in both psychology and neuroscience which focuses on a child’s development when it comes to the generating, processing and conceptualizing of information, perception, learning of languages and how this is used to express one’s self, as well as other areas of brain development as compared to an adult’s point...| The Psychology Notes Headquarters
Albert Bandura, an American psychologist, developed most of the principles of contemporary social learning theory / social-cognitive theory which is one of the more prominent and influential theories of development today. Bandura’s Social learning theory serves as a link that connects the behaviorist perspective and the cognitive perspective, supporting the behaviorist’s belief in the importance of reinforcement on maintaining behavior...| The Psychology Notes Headquarters