FMST 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Explanatory Power, Freudian Slip, Incest
Document Summary
Our understanding of child development has changed over years. Studying child development allows us to understand the many changes that take place in the persons life span. Theory - approach we use, set of empirically testable interconnected ideas formulated to explain phenomenon. Provide descriptions, summaries, integration, and explanations about what is known from research. Basic functions of any theory : accumulation - collect data, precision - precise data, guidance, connectedness. Interpretation: prediction - predict what will happen b/c of data, explanation - can explain data, application - apply data. Theories about children embedded in theories about families. Last for a considerably longer period of time than most other social groups. Family of origin ( family we are born into ) Family of procreation ( family we begin our self : are inter - generational, contain both biological / non biological ( fictive ) relationships b/w members ( larger kinship system )
