PSY 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tabula Rasa, Child Development, Active Child
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Knowledge of child development can help parents and teachers meet the challenges of. Child-development research provides important insights into some of the most. Recent investigations of development among children adopted from inadequate. Knowledge of child development permits informed decisions about social-policy. Psychological research on childcare"s responses to leading interview questions can help. Normative development and what to expect age by age. Researchers have identified effective approaches that parents and other caregivers can. Historical foundations of the study of child development. Both plato and aristotle believed that the long-term welfare of society depended on. Plato: emphasized self-control and discipline, believed that children are born with. Aristotle: was concerned with firing child rearing to the needs of the individual child, John locke: like aristotle, saw the child as a tabula rasa (clean slate) and advocated first. Jean-jacques rousseau: argued that parents and society should give children max. The emergence of child development as a discipline.