Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Theory
• transition to toddlerhood-
attraction to novelty declines and
sustained attention improves
Psychoanalytic theory-
Infancy-
Freud’s oral stage (infants obtain pleasure
through the mouth
• Toddlers-
o Pre-Operational Stage-
Marked by rapid growth in
representational or
symbolic activity
Sensorimotor activity
provides the foundation for
language, imitation and
make-believe play
Egocentricism- inability to
distinguish the symbolic
viewpoints of others from
one’s own
Inability to understand
conservation
• Attention- preschoolers spend
only short time involved in tasks,
have difficulty focusing on details,
and easily distracted
• Psychoanalytic theory-
Moral Development