Essays on Developmental Psychology

From a young age, we are taught that telling the truth is always the right thing to do no matter the consequences. We understand what this entails and even when we don’t tell the truth we understand that we should’ve. The concept seems simple, but…

The Electra complex is the female counterpart of the more widely known Oedipus complex. The concept introduced by psychoanalysts has acquired a fairly large number of myths and stereotypes. In this article, we will try to figure out what is this complex, and how to…

Sigmund Freud was so thoroughly inspired and intrigued by this play that he came up with the “Oedipus Complex.” This complex was part of his psychoanalytic theory, which in basis is the desire or possessiveness of the parent of the opposite sex and the rivalry…

Sigmund Freud’s theory and his ideas provided interesting ways of thinking about human feelings and conduct. There are two theories very well known by Freud. One of them is the Oedipus Complex, defined as the liking and desire to sleep (physical relationship) with a mother…

It goes without saying that Sigmund Freud remains influential in the fields of psychology and psychiatry. He is the founding father of psychoanalysis and gave the world a critical understanding of how an individual’s childhood has an enormous influence on their adult life that in…

Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic hypothesis of character contends that human conduct is the consequence of the associations among three-segment portions of the brain: the id, sense of self, and superego. This hypothesis, known as Freud’s basic hypothesis of character, places extraordinary accentuation on the job of…

For a child to meet the predetermined normalities of a society, an individual will go through certain stages of development throughout their life. Robert Dale Parker, the author of How to Interpret Literature, explains that: In Freud’s model, the child typically moves through a series…

Introduction Life-span developmental psychology focuses on individual development from conception to death. The main presumption of developmental psychology is that development does not complete at adulthood, but rather continues throughout life (Baltes et al., 1999). Development can be characterized into various stages which are defined…

In the 1900s, psychoanalysis was the most distinct theory in psychology literature. ‘‘Behaviorist Manifesto’’ which is found by J. B. Watson, neo-analytic approaches by Carl Jung, Alfred Adler, and Karen Horney and also, Gestalt psychology was the influential and prominent theories in that era. However,…

Introduction Sigmund Freud was father of psychoanalysis who was first person to study unconscious mind shaping one’s personality. Our unconscious mind works like a store house to repressed feelings which is responsible for conflicts e.g., anxiety, neurosis, hysteria etc., during later stages. According to Freud’s…