PSYCH101 Lecture 2: Lecture 2 - Developmental Psychology Goes over the background of developmental (child) psychology as well as indepth on the different theories or affective, behavioural, and cognitive development.

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

Document Summary

Attachment theory: how we develop feelings for other people, how the connection develops in a newborn. Industrial revolution: 18-1900"s: rapid technological advance, a lot being made -> very available, not a good time to be a child. Lower classes = tough life: start working till death at age 12. Young as 6 in mines (planting dynamite with small fingers) Job was 6 days a week, min 10 hours daily, 6 hours saturday: kids had nothing to look forward to. Child labour laws started to change their lives. 2 people convinced the world that children are special: freud and piaget. Only saw children as small adults, only difference is in size: the caterpillar notion: caterpillars = children. Although kids look like us, they have their own needs. Freud and piaget presented the world with the sapling ides -> growth in a child is a list, getting bigger: growth has distinct stages, not a straight line, many steps: