PSY 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Tabula Rasa, Philosophical Perspectives
29 Mar 2016
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Development is the study of systemic changes and continuities in an individual between conception & death. Focusing on typical patterns of change including normative and idiographic development (variations from the norm) Raising children, choosing social policies, understanding human nature. Basic observations about the character of development: continual + cumulative process, holistic process, plasticity (change from experiences, historical/cultural process. Plato - babies born with innate knowledge. Aristotle - babies born as blank slates. Jean jacques rousseau - doctrine of innate purity. John locke - mind of infant = tabula rasa. The baby biographies - charles darwin"s study on evolution & genetics. G stanley hall - founder of developmental psych as a research discipline. Development of theories - freud"s theory of sex + aggression as primary drives. Watson - father of behaviourism (you learn from your environment) Genome: contains dna and proteins which regulate gene expressions by turning activity on and off. Epigenetics: stable changes in gene expression mediated by the environment.
