PSYC 2110 Lecture 1: PSYC 2110 All Lectures
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Developmental psychology looks at concepts of unchanging states age. Facial eyes & smiling: evolutionary ethology, evolutionary ethology, biological. Children were not human until age 4, due to high death rates at young ages. The church were the first to view children differently than adults due to education and keeping them safe from sin. Now, parents seem to be too child-centric. John locke: the center of british empiricism o, nature side (nature vs. nurture, believed a child was like clay, to be molded and formed. Rousseau: saw infant as a good" person, unless society was going to corrupt them, society = sin, nature side (nature vs. nurture, believed a child was like a flower, needing sun & water. Fears or reactions were found to be from real ancient times: appeal to survival value of species of children o. Bronfrenbrenner: how multiple levels of surrounding environment influenced development, macro-system, meso-system, micro system, chrono [diagram found in text]