BEH1041 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Learning Theory, Tabula Rasa, Psychoanalytic Theory
24 Jul 2018
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Introduction: raising children effectively: anger (and other negative emotions) management, choosing social policies: detection and prevention of developmental problems vs treatment; child testimony, understanding human nature: effects of early deprivation knowledge. John locke child is a blank slate (tabula rasa). Jean-jacques rousseau children should be given maximum freedom from the beginning. They learn from spontaneous interactions with objects and people. believed knowledge came from experience. stability & gentleness. Social reform movements: earl of shaftesbury children under 10 should not work in mines. Darwin"s theory of evolution: used his son for case study. Child development as a discipline : binet: measurement of iq freud: psychoanalytic theory john watson: behaviourist theory. Theories of social development |attempt to account for aspects of development such as: Individual differences: nature and nurture, the active child. Learning theories: behaviourism, operant conditioning, social learning theory, freud"s theory of psychosexual development, erikson"s theory of psychosocial development, piaget"s cognitive-development theory, vygotsky"s sociocultural theory.
