PSYC10004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Tabula Rasa, Social Learning Theory, Psychosexual Development
13 Jun 2018
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26th July ’17
MBB2 Week 1; Lecture 2 Notes
Introduction to Understanding Human Development
developmental psychology
- systematic changes & continuities in 3 domains
- physical development - growth of body & organs
- cognitive development - perception, learning, memory, language, problem-solving, mental
processes
- psychosocial development - personal & interpersonal aspects of development (motives,
emotions, personality)
child development
- reasons to study it: effective parenting; anger management
- social policies: detection/prevention of development vs child treatment
- understanding human nature: effects of deprivation
change in approach for childhood - due to industrialisation
- became more important from 19th century
- more laws passed to minimise child labour
- Jean Locke & Jean-Jacques Rousseau = attention on child behaviour
- Locke: child born blank slate (tabula rasa)
- Rousseau: children had own desires, developed @ own pace, shielded from shitty things
- new ways of studying development in kids
- baby biographies/case studies (Dickens & Piaget)
perspective theories (influenced modern developmental techniques)
- psychoanalytic theories:
- Freud’s theory of psychosexual development
- Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development
- learning theories:
- Watson - classical conditioning
- Skinner - operant conditioning
- Bandura - social learning theory
- cognitive development theories:
- Piaget’s cognitive-developmental theory
- Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory
- information processing perspectives
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Document Summary
Systematic changes & continuities in 3 domains. Physical development - growth of body & organs. Cognitive development - perception, learning, memory, language, problem-solving, mental processes. Psychosocial development - personal & interpersonal aspects of development (motives, emotions, personality) child development. Reasons to study it: effective parenting; anger management. Social policies: detection/prevention of development vs child treatment. Understanding human nature: effects of deprivation change in approach for childhood - due to industrialisation. More laws passed to minimise child labour. Jean locke & jean-jacques rousseau = attention on child behaviour. Locke: child born blank slate (tabula rasa) Rousseau: children had own desires, developed @ own pace, shielded from shitty things. New ways of studying development in kids. Baby biographies/case studies (dickens & piaget) perspective theories (influenced modern developmental techniques) Bronfenbrenner - the bioecological model different type of theorists. In stages, at a particular stage and progresses up, not continuous.
