Main focus: Personality; psychosocial
Key concepts: lifespan development; psychosocial crisis
STAGE THEORY
Mahler
Annotations:
Main focus: personality (social, emotional self)
Key concepts: birth of psychological self; separation-individuation
STAGE THEORY
Stern
Annotations:
Main focus: personality (interpersonal, cognitive, emotional self)
Key concepts: Interpersonal sense of self; RIGS
STAGE THEORY
Behavioural
Skinner
Annotations:
Main focus: Learning
Key concepts: Operant conditioning, reinforcement, punishment
Pavlov
Annotations:
Main focus: learning
Key concepts: Classical conditioning
Cognitive
Piaget
Annotations:
Main focus: Cognitive (thinking, problem solving)
Key concepts: Schemes, assimilation, accommodation, equilibrium, mental space (Neo-piagetian)
STAGE THEORY
Case; Fischer
Annotations:
Main focus: cognitive; problem-solving skills and capabilities
Key concepts: skill acquisition; optimal performance; higher level skills
PROCESS-ORIENTED THEORY
Information Processing
Annotations:
Main focus: cognitive; processing of info; problem solving and other mental abilities
Key concepts: sensory register; STM; LTM; metacognition, knowledge base, control processes
PROCESS-ORIENTED THEORY
Contextual
Lorenz, Tinbergen (ethological)
Annotations:
Main focus: Adaptation to biological and ethological contexts
Key concepts: Behavioural dispositions; evolutionary adaptations
PROCESS-ORIENTED THEORY
Bronfenbrenner (ecological)
Annotations:
Main focus: interactive contextual influences
Key concepts: microsystem, exosystem, mesosystem, macrosystem
PROCESS-ORIENTED THEORY
Vygotsky (sociocultural)
Annotations:
Main focus: contextual; cultural/historical influences
Key concepts: Dialogues; zone of proximal development (ZPD)
PROCESS-ORIENTED THEORY
Lerner & Elder
Annotations:
Main focus: individual change within social and historical contexts
Key concepts: Multiple organisational levels of reciprocal, dynamic change; social trajectories
Adult & Lifespan
Normative-crisis
Annotations:
Main focus: personality (social, behaviour, life structure, coping mechanisms)
Key concepts: Adult development; mature coping mechanisms (Vaillant); eras; transitions, and life structures (Levinson).
STAGE THEORY
Timing-of-events
Annotations:
Main focus: Personality (social, behaviour, life structure)
Key concepts: Adult development; normative & non-normative events; social clock
PROCESS-ORIENTED
Dynamic Systems
Annotations:
Main focus: Change is ongoing
Key concepts: Biological makeup, differences in individual skills
STAGE-LIKE
Social Cognitive Learning
Bandura
Annotations:
Main Focus: learning behaviour, cognitive response patterns, social roles
Key concepts: imitation, social learning, modelling, cog. learning, reciprocal determinism, skills, capabilities
PROCESS-ORIENTATED
Power and Gender Theories from A-level English Language. (useful for both AS and A2).
A-LEVEL ENGLISH LANGUAGE : Key Theorists
*THIS IS A WORK-IN-PROGESS* If a theory is named, guess the theorist and explain the theory. If a theorist is named, guess the theory and explain it. Sometimes there are examples, so try to come up with some too. Often theorists came up with more than one theory.
Language and Gender Theories
Mind-map of Language and Gender theories for A-Level English Language
Sociology- Beliefs in Society (Theories)
by
Rachel Pearce
Anthropology Theories
A quick study tool about many theories in anthropolgy with some quick notes on sociology and phsycology.
MEDIA THEORIES
media theories for A2 ocr exam
Theories and Philosophical approaches that link to play and learning
Key theorists and philosophical approaches that link to play and learning.
Bullying: Theories
by
Maisie Rose Woodward
Leadership Development
Flash cards on Leadership Development Theories from Northouse's Leadership: Theory and Practice