Theories of Human Development

Introduction — The Value of Theories

The Early History of Child Study

Two Worldviews — Locke vs. Rousseau

Later History — Becoming Scientific

Freud's Psychodynamic Theory

How We Gain Contact With Reality — The Ego

Freud's Psycho-Sexual Stages

Erikson's Psycho-Social Theory

Erikson's Early Stages

Identity and Intimacy

Erikson's Later Stages — Adult Development

Bowlby and Ainsworth's Attachment Theory

How Nature Ensures That Attachment Will Occur

Development of Secure and Insecure Attachments

Early Attachments and Adult Relationships

Bandura's Social Learning Theory

Bandura's Self-Efficacy Theory

Piaget's Cognitive-Developmental Theory

Piaget's Early Stages

Concrete Operations

Piaget's Last Stage

Vygotsky's Cognitive-Mediation Theory

Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development

Conclusions — Our Nature and Development