PSY 2105 Lecture Notes - Johann Gottfried Herder, Erik Erikson, Psychosexual Development
10 Feb 2013
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Concerned with changes in behaviour and abilities across the lifespan. Today, childhood = special period of caring, teaching & protection. Childhood is a period of rapid change. Complex processes are more easily understood during their formation. Social policies that improve the lives of children can be influenced by research findings. Children and their experiences are inherently intriguing domains of development. An orderly, integrated, evidence-based set of statements that. Argued that children gain knowledge through experience and learning. Argued that children are born with innate knowledge that drives development (nativism) Examining and evaluating the specifics of a culture is crucial to understanding human development (cultural relativism) Developed concept of natural selection in which traits that confer advantages allow the organism to survive. Individuals best adapted to their environments survive to reproduce. Their genes are passed to later generations. Species have characteristics that are adapted to their environments. Focused research on observable behaviour; proposed a behaviourist theory of development.
