Christian Worldview In Sigmund Freud's Psychodynamic Theories

We learn about worldviews of Christians and about a psychological worldview. Entwistle (2010) teaches us the worldview of Christians

Behaviorism believes that when we are born, our mind is a sort of blank slate, and over time our experiences and environment influence a persons behavior over time, this is where things such a classical conditioning comes in to play. For example if we receive positive reinforcement for an action, we are statically more likely to repeat that action as we have now associated the behavior with a positive reinforcement, the same would apply to a action that we received a negative reinforce or punishment for, we would then be less likely to repeat that behavior or action because we have now associated it a negative reinforce or punishment.

Sigmund Freud played a key role in the development of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapy. The theory of personality development is primarily based on the first six years of life because those times are the most significant in the psychological development of personality. The psychoanalytic theory focuses on the three different levels of awareness such as the preconscious, the conscious, and the unconscious mind and how they all motivate our behavior (Tan, n.d.)

According to Santrock, psychoanalytic theories define development as unconscious and strongly affected by emotions. For the psychoanalytic theorists, in order to understand the development, it is necessary to analyze the symbolic meaning of behavior and the inner workings of the mind. They agree that experiences in early childhood with the parents play an important role during development (Santrock, 2011, p. 22).

The Cognitive Development theory refers to the ability to learn through thinking and reasoning. Theorist Jean Piaget developed the stages of cognitive development according to age and how individuals learn through their environment and senses. Based on Education.com: Stages of Cognitive Development (Driscoll/Nagel ,2008), these stages are from infant to teenage years with specific abilities. The first stage of Piaget’s stages of development is called Sensorimotor, which starts at birth to two years of age. It describes how babies learn through their senses. The next stages is known as Pre-operational which are ages two through seven. During this stage, a child uses his or her own logic to express thinking. From the seven to eleven years of age, a child is in the Concrete Operational stage. He or she will use hands-on experience to increase knowledge. The final stage is Formal Operational. Between the ages of eleven and fifteen, an adolescent develops a more abstract form of knowledge. One of the main differences between these stages is object permanence. Piaget designed these stages in a rigid format. This theory does not allow individual experience and background to be considered. In conclusion, a weakness of this theory is that is doesn’t mention how culture impacts learning. A strength of this theory is that it acts as a guide for educators to provide variation while lesson planning.

The cognitive theory was proposed by Jean Piaget and is concerned with the qualitative development and mental processes and abilities. The cognitive theory seeks to understand how changes in behavior reflect changes in thinking.

     Cognitive development is defined as gradual orderly changes by which mental processes become more complex and sophisticated, or the scientific study of how human beings develop in certain orderly stages as they get older. The actual study of cognition refers to the process of knowing; it is the study of all mental activities related to acquiring, storing, and using knowledge (Microsoft, 2001, p.3). How we as humans develop cognitively has been thoroughly observed and researched by Jean Piaget. He was a cognitivist: he believed that our environment stimulates us to learn on our own (make our own intelligence).

According to Sigmund Freud and his theory of Psychoanalysis, human behaviors, morals, and patterns of thought are all linked to our past childhood experiences. Our experiences and our exposure to our environment during our lifetime made who we are. How we grew up, who we interacted with, and what we saw around us affected how we viewed certain hot topics in our modern society.

Good Evening, tonight we will be discussing Psychoanalytic Development Theory. Understanding your child is so much more than just reading ‘what to expect’ and parenting blogs, although those are good things. By understanding the theory, you can understand why your child does what they do, and appreciate it on a deeper fundamental level.

The way an individual perceives the world is known as his or her worldview; furthermore, worldview influences many different aspects of life, such as discipleship, relationships, critical thinking, and decision-making. Beginning in childhood, the worldview is being altered continuously. Christ and the Bible are two things at the core of the Christian worldview. The Bible is an essential building block to uncovering the biblical worldview. It is unified in nature and what this unity accomplishes. Countless valuable doctrines are discovered in the Bible three specific examples include existence and attributes of God, and sin and salvation.

Psychology is not the field in which the idea that early childhood experiences shape who we are is present. It is obvious in everyday life that what happens in childhood matters for the rest of that child’s life,for example is the quality of life

Cognitive development is Piaget’s famous theory. Jean Piaget’s (1896 – 1980) approach to cognitive development was explained as a progressive reconstruction of mental processes as a consequence to biological development and environmental experiences. His

Sigmund Freud is responsible for the creation of psychoanalysis, which at the time was a new science based on mental causes rather than the typical physical model of human behavior. Freud was the first to infer that mental disorders could be the result of individual history rather than physical impairment and that childhood experiences influence an individual’s behavior in the future. When considering Freud’s theory of personality, there are numerous correlations that can be observed with regard to my own childhood experiences and the actions and emotions I experience today.

Influenced by psychologists such as Jean Piaget and Jerome Bruner, the cognitive perspective has grown tremendously in recent decades. To Piaget, cognitive development was a progressive reorganization of mental processes as a result of biological maturation and environmental experience. He brought along the idea that people learn to create an understanding

Sigmund Freud is credited with the development of psychodynamic psychology, the belief that emotional trauma and experiences we have a children translate into our adult life and shape our relationships with others, and an important developer of the theory itself. Psychodynamic refers to the theories that “human personality is controlled by unconscious mental processes developed early in childhood” (Siegel, 2014, p. 150). Essentially, psychodynamic theory focuses on how the experiences that people have in early childhood and adolescence effect the overall development of the drive, motivation, and