ABSTRACT
While there are many theories in psychology that can apply to early childhood education, they are limited in scope. Over the years, Freud’s theories evolved, and he created four different models of the human personality: the dynamic, the developmental, the structural, and the functional. These models introduced the major concepts of psychoanalysis. Perhaps the most familiar task Piaget used to demonstrate egocentrism was the three mountains task. He employed clay models of three mountains placed at different positions on a table. The child’s task was to draw a copy of the mountains as seen from the perspective of another child sitting opposite him. In the late 1940s Piaget introduced a logical model to describe the changes in intelligence, which he documented with a large number of investigations centered on the issues of “conservation”. Around the second year of life Freud posits that the anus becomes the focus of pleasure and distress.
