PSYC 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Inductive Reasoning, Metacognition, Dynamical System
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Why do we care about developmental psychology? learn about human nature own personal learning on child-rearing affecting policy influences kids. We all affect the way we interact with kids can learn more about ourselves look back on experiences and see why we do some of the things we do now. Plato (self-control, discipline, innate knowledge: self-control and discipline most important goals of education. Naturally crazy and its parents job to control them: children have innate knowledge (biologically driven to be a certain way) Aristotle (individualization, blank slate": also agrees that discipline is necessary, more concerned with individualization fitting child-rearing to the needs of the individual child. Children can become different through their upbringing: believed that all knowledge comes from experience and the infant mind is a blank slate, should be more free to make own decisions. Plato & aristotle mainly differed in views of how children acquire knowledge. Both believed that child development was important.
