Both Sigmund Freud and John Watson stressed the importance of ___in child development.?

Answer 1

Sigmund Freud emphasized the effects of environmental variables on development, particularly stressed the importance of parental behaviour during infancy.

John B. Watson also stressed the role of the environment in shaping children's development. His views were consistent with those of behaviourism, an approach to psychology that had a great impact in the 1950s on research about children.

Although behaviourists emphasize environment, they almost totally deny the influence of biological variables on development. Their basic assumptions are that the mind of a newborn child is a blank slate, or tabula rasa; all behaviours are determined by environmental events; and differences among children are the result of those environmental variables.

Answer 2

Freud Stressed The Importance Of

Answer 3

John Watson was interested in observable behaviour, he was a Behaviourist. He was interested in showing that fears and reactions were learned. For example, the Baby Albert experiment. He believed that the environment was important in child development. Freud's psychosexual theory of human development shows the importance of the psychosexual stages (Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency, and Genital) and a fixation in the stages. Most people have a vague idea of the Oedipus complex for boys and less commonly known Electra complex for girls.
Many theories in psychology utilize stages of development. But their ideas for the stages vary greatly.

Answer 4

Watson was a behaviorist while Freud was a psychoanalyst. Their approaches therefore would be radically different, with the exception of the one point in this question. It is "emotional detachment."

"Watson's advice to treat children with respect, but with relative emotional detachment, has been strongly criticized. But this perspective was not unique to Watson. It is also associated with psychoanalytic thinkers who worried that too much emotional attachment in childhood would lead to overly dependent adults."

Answer 5

Both believed that "nurture" was more important than "nature" in development.
The other responder that said "psychosexual stages" is incorrect. Freud believed in psychosexual stages, but Watson did not. Watson was a strict Behaviorist.

And "jurydoc" above is way off! And she needs to quote her source - the wikipedia! And Classical & Operant conditioning are Behavioral theories, Freud had nothing to do with this!

Answer 6

I'm going to say classical or operant conditioning. That is, that behaviors are learned, as in the baby Albert experiment.

Answer 7

Mothers or Sex