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Lectures presented by Malcolm W. Watson, Brandeis University

"Human development" is the science that studies how we learn and develop psychologically from birth to the end of life. To a large extent, the study of human development is the study of child development, because the most significant changes take place from infancy through adolescence. This very young science not only enables us to understand children and help them develop optimally, but also gives us profound insights into who we are as adults. In Theories of Human Development, Professor Malcolm W. Watson, the George and Frances Levin Professor of Psychology at Brandeis University, introduces you to the six theories that have had perhaps the greatest influence on this field. You will meet the people who formulated each theory, become familiar with their philosophical backgrounds and the historical contexts in which they worked, and study the specific processes of human development that each theory describes. The lessons of this course are not only about learning, behavior, and relationships in our youth - they apply at any age. Taken as a whole, they provide our best answers to the questions of human nature - how we learn, adapt, and become who we are at every stage in life. All Lectures: 1. Introduction - The Value of Theories 2. The Early History of Child Study 3. Two Worldviews - Locke vs. Rousseau 4. Later History - Becoming Scientific 5. Freud's Psychodynamic Theory 6. How We Gain Contact with Reality - The Ego 7. Freud's Psycho-Sexual Stages 8. Erikson's Psycho-Social Theory 9. Erikson's Early Stages 10. Identity and Intimacy 11. Erikson's Later Stages - Adult Development 12. Bowlby and Ainsworth's Attachment Theory 13. How Nature Ensures That Attachment Will Occur 14. Development of Secure and Insecure Attachments 15. Early Attachments and Adult Relationships 16. Bandura's Social Learning Theory 17. Bandura's Self-Efficacy Theory 18. Piaget's Cognitive-Developmental Theory 19. Piaget's Early Stages 20. Concrete Operations 21. Piaget's Last Stage 22. Vygotsky's Cognitive-Mediation Theory 23. Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development 24. Conclusions - Our Nature and Development

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