Introduction to Psychology/Child and Adolescent Psychology/Contributions of Freud


 * Freud's development theory
 * Sigmund Freud - psychosexual theory
 * Oral and anal
 * Id desires pleasure from erogenous zones. The ego is emerging and keeping the id in check as children learn to delay gratification
 * Phallic
 * As a result of unconscious sexual desires for opposite-sex parent, children learn to identify with same-sex parents. It is through this identification that the child acquires the superego.
 * Latency
 * emergence of superego produces shame because of sexual desires. Sexual feelings are repressed.
 * Genital
 * Children mature into adolescents. Sexual identities are formed.