101682 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tabula Rasa, Critical Period, Middle Ages
25 Feb 2019
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Week 1: historical perspective on human development, major questions and fundamental issues in understanding development, describe periods of development, bronfenbrenner"s ecological model, how we study development. Philosophies of childhood: ancient rome -> middle ages, childhood ends at 6, after the renaissance and enlightenment, childhood recognised as a unique period, after 17th and 18th centuries. Major questions in development: how development occurs, what develops, why development occurs. Fundamental issues - nature vs. nurture: nature, genetic factors, stable. Sensitive period: a period of development during which certain behaviours are more easily learned, critical period, a period of development during which certain experience is needed for future normal development, without such experience later development would be impaired. What develops: physical development, bodily structured, motor development, hormonal changes, cognitive development. Week 1: sensation, perception, reasoning, memory, language, psychosocial development, emotional, social knowledge, morality, personality.
