PSYC10004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Behaviorism, Cognitive Development, Heredity
16 Oct 2018
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Psychosocial development: personal and interpersonal aspects of development. Raise children effectively, prevention of developmental problems, understanding effects of early deprivation. Plato: self-control and discipline, children born with innate knowledge. Aristotle: knowledge comes from experience, rear to the needs of the child. John locke: tabula rasa, parents set good example of honesty and stability. Jean-jacques rousseau: children should be given maximum freedom, learn from spontaneous interactions social reform movements. Earl of shaftsbury: children under 10 should not work in mines. Darwin"s theory of evolution child development as a discipline: Binet measurement of iq, freud psychoanalytic theory, john watson behaviourist theory nacmuir nature v nurture: Nature: shaping of development, maturation, influence of heredity and predispositions by genes, hormones, brain. Bio-ecological model model to describe environmental influences on development. Development is the interaction between genetic make up ad psychological characteristics embedded in a series of environmental systems. Environment is a set of nested structures with different levels of influence with complex interconnection.
