PSY 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tabula Rasa, Philosophical Perspectives, Behaviorism
31 Mar 2016
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Development: the study of systematic changes in an individual that occur between conception and death. Temperament of development: easy baby (easy care, difficult baby (hard care) Consistently crying: shy baby (scared/nervous/hangs back) Describe behaviours: patterns of change (normative development) following norms, idiographic development (developing different compared to other children in the same age group) Why study child development: raising children (pros/cons of daycare, bullying, choosing social policies (quebec has government funded daycare, foster language development, understanding human nature, help parents and children by at what age they are at. History of child development: early philosophical perspectives on childhood. Rousseau: doctrine of innate purity children are born good; society corrupts them. John locke: mind of infant is a tabula rasa children are born neutral; how they develop are based on their experiences; they must be disciplined, freedom earned; children are passive and develop according to how parents developed you.
