PSY 2105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Ethology, Habituation, Tabula Rasa
19 Apr 2015
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Psy 2105: chapter 1 background & theories. Two basic goals of research in developmental psychology: Description: identify children"s behavior at each level of development. Explanation: determine causes and processes that produce changes in behavior from one point to the next. Contributions made by john locke, jean-jacques rousseau, johann. Gottfried von herder, and charles darwin all children born equally newborn mind = tabula rasa (blank slate) knowledge comes to a child through experience and learning. Charles darwin: natural selection genetics better traits = better chance of survival led to idea of recapitulation (individual repeats the development of the species) Stanley hall: father of child psychology founded field of developmental psychology first systematic studies of children in na. James baldwin: argued that development progresses through a sequence of stages stressed the connection between genes and environment influenced jean piaget"s theory of development. How did john b. watson help make child psychology a natural science? using observational methods specific for early experimental psychology.
