ED PSYCH 331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Arnold Gesell, Compulsory Education, Behavioural Genetics
25 Jan 2017
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Three factors contributed directly to the rise in compulsory education for children: (they didn"t know what to do with kids after they could not work in coal mines and factories in the 1900s) How to keep these kids from ruining things and running about. How soon a kid can walk, when they can sit, etc. G. stanley hall father of adolescent psychology . Wild idea that evolution has defined every stage of a lifespan. Pushed people to think about adolescent as a different point in a life span. He was way off but he pointed in the right direction. Examines the extent to which our psychological traits and mental abilities are inherited. How much our genes makes up our outcomes. Development is something that happens gradually over time, because our environment made us do this. Kids play a largely passive role in development. You can teach any kids anything as long as you have the right things to do so.
