Tag
Developmental Psychology
Entries tagged developmental psychology.
8 entries
Attachment Theory
Bowlby's theory that infants are wired to seek a caregiver's protection, and that the caregiver's responsiveness, first measured by Ainsworth's Strange Situation, sets a template for how the child expects relationships to work.
10 min
ConceptBaumrind's Parenting Styles
A typology of how parents combine control and warmth: authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive, later joined by neglectful, each tracking a different profile of child outcomes.
7 min
ThinkerErik Erikson
Erikson mapped human development as eight lifelong crises of identity and relationship, running from an infant's first trust to the reckoning of old age.
12 min
ThinkerJean Piaget
The psychologist who mapped childhood into stages, arguing that a child's mind is not a small adult's but a different kind of reasoning machine built anew at each age.
10 min
ConceptKohlberg's Stages of Moral Development
A six-stage account of how moral reasoning matures, tested through dilemmas like Heinz and the drug he cannot afford, and famously challenged for treating one voice, justice, as the summit of maturity.
8 min
ThinkerLev Vygotsky
The Soviet psychologist who argued that the higher mind is built from the outside in, through social interaction and cultural tools, before it becomes private thought.
11 min
Thought experimentLittle Albert
The 1920 study in which two psychologists conditioned an infant to fear a white rat, a landmark of behaviorism and one of the most ethically indefensible experiments in the field's history.
8 min
ConceptTheory of Mind
The capacity to attribute mental states, beliefs, desires, intentions, to others and to grasp that theirs can differ from your own and from reality.
9 min