PSY210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Romanian Orphans, Dionne Quintuplets, Donald O. Hebb
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Empiricists (nurture) vs. nativist (nature) + the people (locke, rousseau, plato, New scientific field: darwin, hall, binet, watson, freud. Many early developmental researchers were concerned with how to better the education of the masses (an applied goal). Poor children were not succeeding academically in the same way as wealthier children. Basic research: the goal of applied research is to solve practical problems, the goal of basic research (fundamental, pure) is to acquire knowledge for the knowledge"s sake (no direct application). The motivation behind this work is scientific curiosity: the main difference between these two is the ultimate goal. In order to classify, you need to know the motivation. Initially headed by william blatz: later became famous for his work on the dionne quintuplets, exploring the interaction of environment and genetics, the quintuplets were taken from their family in early infancy and lived in.
