PSYC 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lev Vygotsky, Psychosexual Development, Wilhelm Wundt
25 Mar 2017
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What is psychology: the scientific study of behavior, types of behavior: Includes social, cognitive, emotional, physical, abnormal, brain, etc. What is developmental psychology: the scientific study of change in behavior as the organism grows, matures and gains experience with the world around them. Long-term effects: rapid development, window into adult behavior, real world applications, the starting point. Themes of development: both biology and the social and physical environment affect our development, biological versus environmental influences: To explore how biological and environmental factors interact. - biology and environment may influence different aspects of development to different degrees. - produce developmental variations: the active versus the passive child: Early theorists: descartes - cartesian dualism, known as the mind-body problem. John locke (17th) - tabula rasa: rousseau (18th, born with knowledge and ideas, develop according to innate timetable, darwin (19th, evolutionary theory and natural selection, recapitulation theory - ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, haeckel 1866.
