PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Child Development, American Psychological Association, Behaviorism
30 Nov 2016
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Introduction: themes in developmental psychology: 1. 1, 1. 2, and 1. 3 (in chapter 1) Plato and aristotle believed that schools and parents had responsibility for teaching children self control that would make them effective citizens. Parti(cid:272)ularl(cid:455) aristotle (cid:271)elie(cid:448)ed that too (cid:373)u(cid:272)h self dis(cid:272)ipli(cid:374)e (cid:449)ould stifle (cid:272)hildre(cid:374)"s i(cid:374)itiati(cid:448)e a(cid:374)d individuality making them unfit to be leaders. Plato"s (cid:271)eliefs o(cid:374) k(cid:374)o(cid:449)ledge: experience could not be the source of knowledge because human senses are too fallible( weak or imperfect, argued instead that children are born with innate knowledge of many concrete objects i. e. animals, people etc. ; as well as with knowledge of abstractions such as courage, love, and goodness: childre(cid:374)"s se(cid:374)sor(cid:455) e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)es trigger k(cid:374)o(cid:449)ledge that the(cid:455) ha(cid:448)e had si(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:271)irth. I. e. the first time a child sees a dog, her innate(instinctive) knowledge allows her. Locke, like aristotle, believed that children begin their journey lightly packed, picking up necessary knowledge along the way through experience.
