The film «The Development of Modern Psychology»
The lecture on DEVELOPMENT PSYCHOLOGY is read by L.F. Obukhov
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Developmental psychology deals with human development.
As an academic science, developmental psychology studies the psychological changes of a person as they grow up and consists of three sub-fields: gerontopsychology, child psychology, prenatal and perinatal psychology.
As a branch of practical psychology, developmental psychology deals with the practice of human development by psychological methods. See Developmental psychology as a field of applied psychology.
Development theories
- Biogenetic law: a pattern in wildlife, formulated by E. Haeckel
- Early Theories: Preformism, Conformism Locke and Rousseau
- Ethological and evolutionary theories of Darwin, Lorentz and Tinbergen
- Attachment theories — Bowlby and Ainsworth
- Philosophy of Education Montessori
- Piaget’s theory of cognitive development
- Stages of moral development according to Kohlberg
- Learning Theories: Pavlov, Watson, Skinner
- Bandura’s Social Learning Theory
- The theory of social psychoanalysis of emotions
- Cultural-historical theory L.S. Vygotsky and A.R. Luria
- Psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud
- Eight Stages of Erickson’s Life
- Bettelheim’s theory of autism
- Jung’s maturity theory
- Chomsky’s theory of language development
- Humanistic psychology, humanistic direction
- Emotions and feelings: the psychology of childhood and the pedagogy of growing up (N.I. Kozlov)