PSY210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Functional Skills Qualification, Child Development, Color Vision
Document Summary
Historical foundatons of the study of child development. Social, emotonal, cognitve, language, and motor skill changes between birth and late adolescence. Sequental progression but unique course for every child. Set of functonal skills or age-specific tasks that most children do at a certain age range. Knowledge of child development can help parents, teachers and practtoners meet the challenges of rearing and educatng. Knowledge of child development permits informed decisions about social policy questons that affect children. Child-development research provides important insights into some of the most intriguing questons regarding human nature. I view the genuine purpose behind earthly existence to be the development of the total potental that lies within each individual human being . Concerned with fitting children rearing to needs of individual child. Rousseau child inherently good, parents and environment ruin child. Concept of childhood as a tme of fun and of happiness. Diary of infant and toddler development (based on systematc observaton)
