FCFC 265 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gerber Baby, Speech Delay, Problem Solving
26 Sep 2017
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Impact of early experience: frist 3 years of brain development are critical, ca(cid:374)"t just go (cid:271)a(cid:272)k i(cid:374) a fi(cid:454) it later, research methods and tools, much more sophisticated now. Industrial revolution: from farms to cities, great depression, economic hardship to greatest effects on infants and toddlers, baby boom, following www2 period of prosperity, dr. benjamin spock: the common sense book of baby and child. Care: significant impact on caucasian families but not african- American or migrant families: project head-start (1964, preschool age children of low income families, early head start: birth to age 3 to help kids behind before preschool, (cid:862)ta(cid:271)ula rasa(cid:863) or (cid:862)bla(cid:374)k late(cid:863) John locke 17th century: children are born basically like a blank slate. What you put in is what you get out e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)es deter(cid:373)i(cid:374)e a (cid:272)hild"s (cid:272)hara(cid:272)teristi(cid:272)s: today, parents training children to become star athletes from a young age (infancy) Jean-jacque rousse 18th century: children are inherently good. Children only become bad when influenced by adults.
