Erik Erikson’s Theory of Psychosocial Development Erik Erikson was the Student and follower of Sigmund Freud. Left his native land, Germany, in 1930′s and immigrated to America, where he studied Native American traditions of human development, and continued his work as a psychoanalyst introduce Theory of Psychosocial Development • Broke with his teacher over the fundamental view about what motivates/ drives human behavior. For Freud, it was ‘biology’ or more specifically the biological instincts of life and aggression (Eros and Thanatos). For Erikson, the most ...

The History of Psychology. Today psychology is considered as the scientific study of human behavior and mental processes. But the case was always  so. Initially the soul; of man interested the philosophers, then mind and conscious experience, and  lastly observable behavior. In 1590, Rudolf Goeckel used the term “psychology”. This word is the combination of two Greek words “ psyche” and “ logos”, the former means the “ soul” and the later “ discursive knowledge”. Thus literally, psychology means the science of soul. Aristotle gave a very important place ...

Psychology is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes Human or Animal Behavior is overt, psyche meaning soul and logos meaning word. Thus, Psychology pertains to the study of mind manifest, obvious, and easy to study the mental processes that help carryout these Behaviors are covert, underlying, hidden, and not easy to study. Besides behavior, what causes these Behaviors to occur and the mental processes involved in it is an important area of interest for a Psychologists defined as study of animals’ behavior too; to better understand and predict human behavior, ...