CAS PS 241 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Visual Cortex, Ecological Systems Theory, Overproduction
18 Dec 2017
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Childhood relatively new: ancient greece and rome. Scientific beginnings: william james- children perceive the world as one big blubbering confusion = children see the world as a chaotic and must make sense of it through development, darwin- natural selection and survival of . Development happens based on predetermined clocks not based on environmental experience. more nature than nurture. Theories: psychoanalytic, framework for discontinuous development, early experiences in which children confront conflict between biological drives and social expectation shape development. Indv differences arise from internal factors: subjective experience, drives, 3. biological maturation: freud psychosexual, erikson"s psychosocial development. Id, ego, superego a: believed in certain conflicts/ stages of sexual development that parents must manage for healthy development, first theory to stress importance of early parent child relation. However, it overemphasizes the influence of sexual feelings in development and it was based on the problems of the sexually repressed well to do society. freud did not study children directly.
