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Puer Aeternus: Its Impact on Personal Growth and Relationships

Puer aeternus. Latin for “eternal child,” used in mythology to designate a child-god who is forever young; psychologically it refers to an older man whose emotional life has remained at an adolescent level, usually coupled with too great a dependence on the mother.

The shadow of the puer is the senex (Latin for old man), associated with the god Cronus—disciplined, controlled, responsible, rational, ordered. Conversely, the shadow of the senex is the puer, related to Hermes or Dionysus—unbounded instinct, disorder, intoxication, whimsy. Like all archetypes, the puer is bipolar, exhibiting both a “positive” and a “negative” aspect.

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Understanding Sigmund Freud’s Stages of Psychosexual Development

Human Development / Childhood, Parenting, Stage Theories / 14 minutes of reading

Sigmund Freud is regarded as the father of psychodynamic theories, the founder of psychoanalysis and the creator of psychosexual stages theory of human development.

Regardless of the acceptance or disapproval of his ideas about human development, his influence over psychology was enormous. During a puritan era he managed to construct a theory of unconscious motivation, of human sexuality and instinctual aggression.

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How Erik Erikson’s Theory of Psychosocial Development Applies to Your Life

Human Development / Childhood, Parenting, Stage Theories / 12 minutes of reading

Erikson was a stage theorist who took Freud’s controversial theory of psychosexual development and modified it as a psychosocial theory, as he rejected the central importance of the sexual drive in favour of the progressive emergence of identity. Like Freud and many others, Erik Erikson maintained that personality develops in a predetermined order, and builds upon each previous stage. This is called the epigenetic principle.

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The Evolution of Creativity Theories in Psychology: A Comprehensive Overview

Learning & Motivation / Art, Culture, History / 6 minutes of reading

The word creativity has its origin in the Latin creare which means to make, to conceive, to develop, to produce. It was introduced in the psychological vocabulary by American psychologist Gordon Allport (1937) and it is replacing the old terms of innovative spirit, inventivity, talent.

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The Key Principles of Jerome Bruner’s Constructivist Theory

Human Development / Childhood, Cognitive Psychology, Education, Parenting, Social Psychology, Stage Theories / 9 minutes of reading

The American psychologist Jerome S. Bruner, strongly influenced by the work of Russian psychologist Lev Vygostky, further developed and applied his ideas in the field of education. Bruner declared that Vygotsky has convinced him about the impossibility of understanding the concept of human development in any other way than as a process of assistance, of collaboration between child and adult, where the adult is taking up the role of a sociocultural mediator. Due to its distinct features, we consider the theory to be a sociocultural constructivist one.

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Exploring The Social Genetic Model of Cognitive Development

Human Development / Childhood, Culture, Parenting, Social Psychology / 5 minutes of reading

During the 1970′, at Geneva, a new perspective on cognitive development has begun to emerge. The self-defined school of socio-genetical psychology advanced theories that represented a challenge addressed to the spirit of genetical epistemology.

Willem Doise, Gabriel Mugny and Jean Claude Deschamp, to name but a few of the representatives, declare that social interactions constitute the privileged setting which gives birth to the intellectual acquisitions of the child. There is a direct cause and effect link between social interaction and individual cognitive development.

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The Psychology Behind Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Learning & Motivation / Humanism, Self-esteem, Social Psychology / 10 minutes of reading

Abraham H. Maslow felt as though conditioning theories did not adequately capture the complexity of human behavior. In a 1943 paper called A Theory of Human Motivation, Maslow presented the idea that human actions are directed toward goal attainment. Any given behavior could satisfy several functions at the same time; for instance, going to a bar could satisfy one’s needs for self-esteem and for social interaction. His theory later became known as the human hierarchy of needs.

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The Importance of Albert Bandura’s Concept of Self-efficacy in Achieving Success

Learning & Motivation / Education, Self-esteem, Social Psychology / 12 minutes of reading

Albert Bandura’s concept of Self-efficacy, or confidence as it is commonly known, is one of the most enabling psychology models to have been adopted into positive psychology.

Self-efficacy is an individual’s optimistic belief in their innate ability, competence or chances of succesfully accomplishing a task and producing a favorable outcome.

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Applying Lev Vygotsky’s Theory of Social Development in Education

Human Development / Childhood, Parenting, Social Psychology / 7 minutes of reading

The work of Lev Vygotsky (1934) has become the foundation of much research and theory in cognitive development over the past several decades, particularly of what has become known as Social Development Theory.

Vygotsky’s theories stress the fundamental role of social interaction in the development of cognition (Vygotsky, 1978), as he believed strongly that community plays a central role in the process of “making meaning.”

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The Power of Perception: Using Attribution Theory to Improve Motivation

Learning & Motivation / Cognitive Psychology, perception, Social Psychology / 6 minutes of reading

Attribution enables the individual to explain his own behaviours and those of others, to interpret what is happening around him and to search for plausible causes that determine an event or action. Attribution Theory must explain the occurrence of certain cognitions using inference, thus reaching a conclusion on the basis of evidence and reasoning, using behaviour as a starting point.

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Puer Aeternus: Its Impact on Personal Growth and Relationships

Understanding Sigmund Freud’s Stages of Psychosexual Development

How Erik Erikson’s Theory of Psychosocial Development Applies to Your Life

The Evolution of Creativity Theories in Psychology: A Comprehensive Overview

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