Development Big questions about development Do we start as moral or immoral? Whats the relation between child and adult? How are they related in terms of continuity? How much knowledge are we born with? There are two group of thoughts around this: Empiricism: They believe that we are born empty and we learn along the way Nativism: We are born with existing structure in brain Constructivism: It is a hybrid of above two ...
Freud theory There are theories which are specific to some domains of psychology, but theories of Freud and Skinner spans accross many different domains of psychology. Freud theory has a very big scope. Freud is consisdered to be a very hyper personality. He was a cocaine addict. He gave lot of theories, some of which are not rationale. One of his theory is Penis envy which seems false but also true. Its so vague that you can’t prove it false and also cant prove it to be true. If we dont dive into these irrational theories and focus on other interesting rational theories he proposed then he was quite an extraordinary personality. ...