Theories and Approaches to child development

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Generally, the psychodynamic perspective focuses on understanding the inward world of people and its associations with human behaviors in the external world. A key concept of the psychodynamic perspective is the contention that all humans have an unconscious and conscious part of their minds. Freud contended that people have a "dynamic inside world" where there is consistent association among conscious and unconscious feelings, urges and fantasies. The basic assumptions of the psychodynamic perspective include the assumption that our behaviors, as well as emotions, are capably influenced by unconscious thought processes, the practices and emotions of grown-ups are profoundly established in childhood memories, all human practices are determined by a specific course, and our personality is made from childhood to adulthood is made of id, ego, and super-ego (McLeod, 2017).

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The concepts of the behavioral perspective Based on the behavioral perspective, our behaviors are mainly affected by environmental factors. It sees how individuals shape, store and recall memories from childhood to adulthood. The cognitive perspective of psychology is basically applied in instances like giving help adapting with memory issues, expanding exactness in decision-making, helping individuals recoup from mind damage, and treating learning issues among other applications (Cherry, 2018). The concepts of the contextual perspective The contextual perspective of psychology mainly involves the study of organisms interacting in and with both historical and current situational context. The contextual perspective is basically an approach that is based on contextualism which is mainly a psychology in which every single event is considered to be an ongoing activity that cannot be separated from its current and historical context.

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