PSY210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Albert Bandura, Field Experiment, 6 Years
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Chapter 1 / lecture 1: the science of child development. Wrote an important paper about the four different things you must understand psychological phenomena. How behavior develops / how did that behavior develop. How the behavior contributes to survival and reproduction. Plato - our experience triggers some knowledge that already inside us; innate (concrete objects and abstract objects) Aristotle knowledge is acquired through our senses, through experience; nurture. Rousseau - people are born with an innate sense of justice and morality that enfolds naturally with age; innate. Locke people are born as a tabula rasa (blank slate and experience is central to molding individual traits) *child labor practices during the industrial revolution led to greater social concern for the well-being of children. Scientific interest was born and people began looking and real world phenomena. Interest in origins of human behavior in children changes over time. Baby biographies: detailed, descriptive systematic observation of individual children.
