EDF 3110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Operant Conditioning, Research, Observational Learning

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Education - Human Development and Organizational Studies
• Course: EDF 3110
• Professor: Melissa Gonzales

Document Summary

Resilience: ability to adapt in threats, factors, personal character, warm relationship w/ parents, social support (friends, community resources/opportunities. Influences on development: multiple, interacting forces, age (ex. puberty, college grad, drivers license, sweet 16, history (ex. Scientific beginnings: darwin: theory of evolution, hall, gesell: normative approach, reaching norms (walking, talking words, forming sentences, etc. , binet: mental testing movement. Early scientific theories: theory of evo, natural selection, species survive in particular enviro bc have traits they adapted to their surroundings, survival of the fittest, normative approach, child study movement, development as a maturational process. Psychoanalytic perspective: freud and erikson: emphasis on individual"s unique history, conflicts b/w bio drives/social expectations. In terms of motives and drives: drives often unconscious/influence every aspect of life, stages of dev. occur in sequence, first theory to consider parent/child relationship. Id: largest portion of mind, unconscious, present at birth, source of bio. needs/desires, ego, conscious, rational, emerges in early infancy, redirects id impulses in accepted ways, superego.