psychosexual development

development /de·vel·op·ment/ (de-vel´up-mint) the process of growth and differentiation.developmen´tal

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cognitive development  the development of intelligence, conscious thought, and problem-solving ability that begins in infancy.

psychosexual development 

1. development of the individual's sexuality as affected by biological, cultural, and emotional influences from prenatal life onward throughout life.

2. in psychoanalysis, libidinal maturation from infancy through adulthood (including the oral, anal, and genital stages).

psychosocial development  the development of the personality, and the acquisition of social attitudes and skills, from infancy through maturity.

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psychosexual development

n.

In Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the influence that sexual growth has on personality development from birth to adult life, with the phases of sexual maturation designated as oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital.

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psychosexual development,

(in psychoanalysis) the emergence of the personality through a series of stages from infancy to adulthood. Each stage is relatively fixed in time and characterized by a dominant mode of achieving libidinal pleasure through the interaction of the person's biologic drives and the environmental restraints. The stages of psychosocial development, as developed by Sigmund Freud, are the oral stage, anal stage, phallic stage, latency stage, and genital stage.

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psychosexual development

Psychiatry A series of stages from infancy to adulthood, relatively fixed in time, determined by the interaction between a person's biologic drives and the environment; with resolution of this interaction, a balanced, reality-oriented development takes place. See Tanner stage.