Principle of

Theories Proponents Theory Importance

-The pleasure
principle is the
driving force
of the ID that
seeks
immediate
urges. In other Guides
1) Freud’s stages of words, the psychoanalysis,
Psychoanalytic Sigmund Freud pleasure a clinical method
principle for treating
strives to fulfill psychopathology
out most basic
and primitive
urges,
including
hunger, thirst,
anger and sex

Psychosexual
development
is a central
element of
If these stages
psycho
are completed
2) Psychosexual analytic sexual
successfully, the
Theory Sigmund Freud drive theory,
result is a
that human
healthy
beings, from
personaliity
birth possess
an instinctual
libido (sexual
energy) that
develops in
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Personality
develop in
series of This theory
3) Erickson’s Theory stages, it describes
of Psychosocial Erick Erikson describes the personalities of
Development impact of human on a
social specific age
experience bracket.
across the
whole lifespan
Children
progress
through a
series of four
key stages of
4) Pigget’s Stage of cognitive
Cognitive Jean Piaget development
Development marked by
shifts in how
they
understand
the world.
Piaget believed