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  2. A-not-B error - Wikipedia

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    Traditionally, this phenomenon has been explained as the child seeing an image and remembering where it was, rather than where it is. Other accounts deal with the development of planning, reaching, and deciding things. There are also behaviorist accounts that explain the behavior in terms of reinforcement. This account argues that the repeated ...

  3. Developmental lines - Wikipedia

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    The child becomes aware that there are aspects of the relationship between the parents from which he is excluded. The latency period: the urgency of the child's drives is reduced and there is a transfer of libido from parents to peers and others in the child's social environment and the community. The preadolescent prelude to the 'adolescent ...

  4. Developmental psychology - Wikipedia

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    Pleasure comes from finding acceptance and love from the opposite sex. The fourth is the latency stage, which occurs from age five until puberty. During the latency stage, the child's sexual interests are repressed. Stage five is the genital stage, which takes place from puberty until adulthood.

  5. Oedipus complex - Wikipedia

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    Oedipus describes the riddle of the Sphinx by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, c. 1805. In classical psychoanalytic theory, the Oedipus complex (also spelled Œdipus complex) refers to a son's sexual attitude towards his mother and concomitant hostility toward his father, first formed during the phallic stage of psychosexual development.

  6. Cupboard love - Wikipedia

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    René Spitz (1959) proposed a phase called "eight-month anxiety" when an infant develops anxiety when left alone with strangers, and the mother is absent. [5] The author is also known for describing the consequences of mother deprivation in the development of babies, resulting in the syndromes of Hospitalism [6] and Anaclitic Depression, [7] depending on the time the child is left without the ...

  7. Three mountain problem - Wikipedia

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    A distinction can be made between children who are in the preoperational stage of cognitive development and the concrete operational stage. The prototypical child in the preoperational stage will fail the Three Mountain Problem task. The child will choose the photograph that best represents their own viewpoint, not that of the doll's.

  8. Freud's psychoanalytic theories - Wikipedia

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    In this essay, he insists that children have sexual urges. The psychosexual stages are the steps a child must take in order to continue having sexual urges once adulthood is reached. The third essay Freud wrote describes "The Transformation of Puberty." In this essay, he examines how children express their sexuality throughout puberty and how ...

  9. Mirror stage - Wikipedia

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    A toddler and a mirror. The mirror stage (French: stade du miroir) is a concept in the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan.The mirror stage is based on the belief that infants recognize themselves in a mirror (literal) or other symbolic contraption which induces apperception (the turning of oneself into an object that can be viewed by the child from outside themselves) from the age of about ...