PSY210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Operant Conditioning Chamber, Heredity, Y Chromosome
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Review from last class: scientific study of changes or continuities in an organism between initial conception and death. Child development (child psychology: page 4 from the textbook. Philosophical roots of child psychology plato, rousseau, aristotle, locke. Plato, rousseau, aristotle, locke: infants possess extensive innate knowledge about the world, infants depend on experience to gain knowledge of world. Scientific study of development (darwin, hall, binet, watson, freud) A new scientific field is born: in late 1800s and early 1900s, the field of developmental psychology was born. 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: basic research is closely tied to applied research. Developmental psychology in canada: later became famous for his work on the dionne quintuplets, exploring the interaction of environment and genetics.