PSYC 2020 Lecture 25: PSYC 2020 Lecture 25 Notes
PSYC 2020 Lecture 25 Notes
Introduction
Historical Views of Children and Childhood
• Offers researchers the advantages of both approaches!
• Disriiates true deelopetal treds fro troulesoe ohort effets”
• The micro-genetic design!
• Studies children intensively over a brief period of time!
• Studies children when developmental changes normally occur!
• Attempts to specify how and why developmental changes occur
• Ethical Considerations in Developmental Research
• Research conducted with children and adolescents raises some challenging ethical
issues.
• The benefits to be gained from the research should always exceed the risks to
participants.
• But no matter how positive this benefits-to-risks ratio, participants have the right to!
• Expect protection from harm!
• Give informed consent to participate (or to stop participating)!
• Have their data treated with confidentiality!
• Receive explanations for any deception that may have been necessary to collect their
data.
• For thousands of years, philosophers have speculated on the fundamental nature of
hildhood ad the oditios that foster hildre’s ell-being.
• Plato (428–347) and Aristotle (384–322), the famous Greek philosophers, believed that
schools and parents had the responsibility for teaching children the self-control that
would make them effective citizens.
• But both philosophers, particularly Aristotle, also worried that too much discipline
ould stiffe hildre’s iitiatie ad idiiduality, akig the ufit to e leaders.
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