PSYC 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Generation Gap, Informed Consent, Qualitative Research
10 May 2016
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Psyc 2500 the science of child development. Module 1. 2 foundational theories of child development. What is your theory of development? (*quotes in lecture slide*) Philosophers have long speculated on nature of childhood. Plato argued: children born w/ innate knowledge, while aristotle saw knowledge as rooted in experience. Contrasting views again seen during age of enlightenment: locke asserting infant = blank state , rousseau believed children born w/ innate sense of right & wrong. Reformers made well-being of children a national concern during industrial revolution. Darwin"s ideas started interest in origins of human behaviour in children as well as changed in behaviour over time. Detailed, systematic observations of individual children baby biographies kept: darwin, piaget. Child-development research used to promote healthy development. 1. 2 theories of child development: the biological perspective, the psychodynamic perspective freud/erikson, learning perspective watson/skinner, social learning theory bandura, cognitive-developmental perspective piaget, the sociocultural perspective vygotsky, ecological systems theory bronfenbrenner.
