PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Urie Bronfenbrenner, Child Development, Twin
12 Jun 2013
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Developmental psychology: origin of skills and knowledge. School age and adolescence are more important in a social context. Once a skill is learned there is no undoing of what you have learned. Example: the number of words in a child"s vocabulary, memory. Qualitative change example, the quality of the child"s movement. Change is not in the amount of information but the sheer nature of their thinking changes from one point to another. Genetically pre-programmed or tabula rasa (locke), idea that children are born into the world as a blank state. Everything that is learned from the child comes from the environment, example learning a specific motor skill, language, things that we have to learn from others in our culture. Development involves interaction between internal and external forces (rousseau) We as a species are specifically tuned to learn a language (babbling or sign babbling), specifics of the language depends on environment.
