Early Childhood Education PSY125 Lecture Notes - Lev Vygotsky, Heredity
12 Mar 2014
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This is the notion that children are born without innate tendancies and it is up to parents to mould children: opposite theory popular in the 60s and still believed today, we are naturally good and seek expiriences to help us grow, rousseau believed that children only needed nurturing and protection to reach their potential; good development occurs from an environment that does not interfere with the growth process, simon binet studied intelligence to identify children who required extra assistance in school. Freud called this oedipus complex for boys: latency period (5/6 until puberty): children play with children of the same gender and their sexual pleasure is repressed and temporarily sublimated in school, hobbies and sports, genital stage: pleasure shifts to attainment of adult sexuality due to changes in the body as a resul of puberty, freud believed that attainment of the genital stage without fixation led to psychological health and the ability to love and work productively.
