Question

. How do psychoanalytic and behavioral interpretations of childhood experience differ? 2. How does selective attention affect a child’s ability to learn and behave?

Answer 1

psychoanalytic : psychoanalytic was termed by the father of Mordern psychology .

It includes 3 stages of conciousness :

• Conciousness : In stage , The person mind is active and aware of the things happening around them .Eg: running , Playing, eating etc
• subconciousness :In this stage , The person is particially concious and aware of the environment around them Eg: Dreaming
• Unconciousness : In this stage , The person has no idea about his surroundings Eg :If the person is brain dead or in Coma .

ID, Ego, Super Ego

completely at the unconscious level.

Acts under the pleasure principle.

immediate gratification, not willing to compromise

Eg : Hunger, Thrist and Sexual needs

Ego-

Resides in all levels of awareness

Operates under “reality principle”

Superego

The moralist and idealistic part of the personality

Resides in preconscious

Operates on “ideal principle”

Behavioural Interpretation

Behaviour is response to external stimulus . some of the major behaviourist like John B. Watson, Ivan Pavolv and B.F Skinner have develped major thories and experiments of behaviourism .

Classical conditioning by Pavlov : Pavlov conducted an experiment on dog to study conditioning of behaviour .

Initially unconditioned stimulus is the food , and unconditioned response is salivation .

In the experiement . The dog used to salivate observing the food before he conditioned the behaviour of the dog.

Later in order to condition and study behaviour he started ringing a bell before the food was given . As soon as the bell rings , The dog was given the food . The dog was so accustomed to the behaviour that as the as the bell rings the dog started salivating because the dog would know he would get food . So with this experiemnt pavlov proves to have conditioned a behaviour .

Selective Attention : is a process of concentration only on a particular things and ignoring the rest is known as selective attention.