PSYC 313 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tabula Rasa, Sigmund Freud, Child Development
24 Jul 2018
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John locke: followed aristotle"s views, child is a tabula rasa (blank slate, discipline before freedom, focus on development of character. Industrial revolution (1700s - 1800s in the us and europe: child laborers were common and had very little protections. Late 1800s: studied and documented his infant son. Beginnings: child development emerged as a formal research area in the late 1800s early 1900s, sigmund freud, psychoanalysis, focus on biology. Methods for studying child development: scientific method, appropriate measurement, reliability; the degree to which independent measurements of a given behavior are consistent. Inter-rater reliability: amount of agreement in the observations of different raters who witness the same behavior: test-retest reliability: degree of similarity , validity : are we measuring what we think we are measuring. Internal validity: are the effects we are seeing attributable to what we are measuring: external validity: are our results generalizable to the general population, beyond the parameters of this study, contexts and strategies.
