PSYC 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tabula Rasa, Sigmund Freud
3 Sep 2015
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What is child development: age changes in children"s characteristics, systematic that happens in a predictable way (child learning to walk, successive, developmental psychology is the scientific methods of child growth. Qualitative vs quantitative development: words, inches, memory, how someone thinks, study, understanding of relationships with others, Continuity vs. discontinuity: individual differences in development, behaviour stable overtime or changes (shy at a young age life span still shy) Nature vs. nurture: inborn qualities, particular genetic makeup allowing someone to grow, qualities acquired from experience, tabula rasa, innate goodness, original sin. Active vs. passive: making sense of world or passive about the environment, what happens around a child and how they tend to deal with it. Watching aggressive behaviour and engaging in it: testable. Ideal theory: makes accurate predictions useful explanations. Falsified good observational definition systematically organized (logical propositions) broad applicability heuristic value (expanding information) Psychodynamic perspective: first major theory of child development.
