Theories of human development
By: Malcolm W. Watson
Contributors: Teaching Company
Series: Great courses; Great courses (DVD)
Publisher: Teaching Co.
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chantilly, VA
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781565856981
Subjects: Developmental psychology
Description: Twenty four 30 minute lectures on human development. Discusses various schools of thought in developmental psychology, including those of Freud, Erickson, Bandura, Ainsworth, Piaget, and Vygotsky.
Notes: Lecturer: Malcolm W. Watson.

DVD, region 1.
Table of contents: title: part I. lecture 1. Introduction - The value of theories ; lecture 2. The early history of child study ; lecture 3. Two worldviews - Locke vs. Rousseau ; lecture 4. Later history - Becoming scientific ; lecture 5. Freud's psychodynamic theory ; lecture 6. How we gain contact with reality - The ego ; lecture 7. Freud's psycho-sexual stages ; lecture 8. Erikson's psycho-social theory ; lecture 9. Erikson's early stage ; lecture 10. Identity and intimacy ; lecture 11. Erikson's later stages - Adult development ; lecture 12. Bowlby and Ainsworth's attachment theory; title: part II. lecture 13. How nature ensures that attachment will occur ; lecture 14. Development of secure and insecure attachment ; lecture 15. Early attachments and adult relationships ; lecture 16. Bandura's social learning theory ; lecture 17. Bandura's self-efficacy theory ; lecture 18. Piaget's cognitive - Developmental theory ; lecture 19. Piaget's early stages ; lecture 20. Concrete operations ; lecture 21. Piaget's last stage ; lecture 22. Vygotsky's cognitive - Mediation theory ; lecture 23. Vygotsky's zone of proximal development ; lecture 24. Conclusions - Our nature and development.