PSYCH 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Noble Savage, Tabula Rasa, Puritans
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Medieval era, childhood up to 7/8 y/o regarded as separate. Law leniency: 16th century, puritan "child depravity" views, original sin. John locke"s "tabula rasa" (blank slate: 17th century, empirisism (experience) : continuous development, babies are born with an empty mind and each experiment is a note on the slate; (accumulation of everything you know) Evolutionary theory: darwin"s ideas of natural selection: psychology : expression of emotions of men and animals (1872, established scientific approach to psychological development. Studies of his own infant son (innate facial expression) Lemon juice drops: normative approach, hall & gesell: age related averages based on measurements of large numbers of children, mental testing movement, binet & simon: early developers of intelligence tests. Iq= metal age/chronological age * 100 (only for kids) Freud"s theory of personality: psychoanalytic theory, super ego: the conscience, develops from ages 3-6 from interactions with caregivers, ego: conscious rational part of mind, emerges in early infancy, redirects the ids impulses acceptably.
