PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Bobo Doll Experiment, Tabula Rasa, Erik Erikson
13 Jun 2017
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Plato thought that experience is innate, senses are easily tricked that we"re experiencing something we"re not, innate knowledge of objects and abstract concepts. Aristotle thought that learning must be the basis of experience, child"s mind to blank slate (tabula rasa), every experience was a little piece of puzzle to completing a set of knowledge. Locke talking about tabula rasa, how parents should interact witht heir children, should be disciplinarian, Rousseau thought we were born with innate human morality, unfolds naturally. Industrial revolution allowed kids to enter the work force (low as 5yrs) Darwin came out with his theory of evolution: baby biographies, systematic observation of the child across development. Hall, began to do experiments with kids of different ages and compare them. Freud, experiences in childhood greatly influence adult behaviour. Maturational theory, blueprint for development, as it unfolds it follows a timeline. Ethological theory, viewing development from an evolutionary perspective.
