The Moral Development or development of morality is the process whereby children learn to consciously distinguish right from wrong. During early childhood, a sense of morality is born when children realise that certain behavioural patterns are regarded as good and sometimes rewarded by parents.
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Moral Development, Personality Development
To explain his views about personality development, Erikson coined his own theory which came to be known as ‘Erikson’s Psychosocial Theory’ which was typically a stage-development theory.
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Educational Psychology, Personality Development
As Freud analysed his patients, he came up with the conclusion that their problems were as a result of experiences from their earlier life so he derived the theory of the psychosexual stages of development where he came up with five stages. If this progression does not occur, the individual is said to be fixated at this stage of development.
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Educational Psychology, Personality Development
Defense Mechanisms of Personality are Unconscious psychological techniques employed by a person to shield themselves from worry brought on by undesirable thoughts or feelings.
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Personality Development
To state clearly the struggles that the mind goes through at the different levels in one’s life, Freud used a description of the three structures of personality, which we shall discuss in this article.
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Educational Psychology, Personality Development, Psychoanalysis
In an effort to explain the Personality Structure, Freud divided the mind into three Parts, namely the conscious, preconscious and unconscious.
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Personality Development
Hans Eysenck’s types of personality gives way to the three dimensions of personality that we shall discuss in this post. Hans Eysenck (1916–1997) was born in Berlin, Germany, and emigrated to England in 1934, after Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany.
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Personality Development
Some linguists and researchers hold that language and thought are two separate and independent entities. The other group feels language partially influences thought.
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Language and Thought
Language development is divided into a series of closely linked stages of development and these stages overlap somewhat, but they form a convenient framework for studying early vocalization.
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Language and Thought
Theories of language development are mainly classified into three categories. Those who argue that language has to be attributed to innate factors of the human brain.
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Language and Thought
Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory of Cognitive Development is grounded on three main assumptions, and 4 themes namely social interaction, more knowledgeable Others, Zone of Proximal Development and Language and Thought.
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Cognitive Development
Piaget’s theory of cognitive develop is well-known within the fields of psychology and education, but it has also been the subject of considerable criticism.
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Cognitive Development
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