PY 352 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Arnold Gesell, Predeterminism
13 Sep 2017
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Born that way is an old, old idea: preformatism and predeterminism, preformatism: inside every egg was the human it just had to grow, predeterminism: mechanics were all already predetermined before birth. Infant and child in the culture of today (1943: not a eugenics, but does believe that nature/genetics dominates over nurture, he went around observing children and can tell you when children can do something. Imitates scribbling by 15 months: scribbles spontaneously by 18 months. Imitates a stroke or line by 2 years: differentiates between a horizontal or vertical stroke or line by 2 years.
