FRHD 2270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Tabula Rasa, Erik Erikson
14 Apr 2013
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Development will look different when looked at through different theories. Blank slate (tabula rosa) john locke: children begin as nothing and character is shaped by experiences. Pushed forward ideas of environmental factors, not just heredity/genetics. Genetically determined, let innate abilities develop on own; adult training would hurt a child"s built in moral sense and way of thinking and feeling; not a blank slate. Nobel savages: children already know who they are and what they need to do. Continuous: you stay relatively the same over time; if you are friendly at 5, you will be friendly at 25. Discontinuous: something qualitative about you changed; something happened and you changed. Active: children cause things to happen to them. Freud: development is determined by how we resolve conflicts at different ages. Id: primal, basic natural instincts; emerges at birth; want immediate gratification of bodily needs and wants; ex. Crying hungry baby; develops over time as needs and wants change.
