PSYB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Tabula Rasa, Scientific Method
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Learning outcomes: understand and define dev psych, understand developmentalists goals, understand history of field, understand methods to study dev psych. Development: systematic changes that occur across the lifespan from birth to death. Developmentalists: study development: goals, describe development: make observations about development across time and ages to identify patterns of development, normative development: typical patterns of development. Idiographic development: individual differences in the pattern: explain: explain why development occurs a certain way, optimize: help make sure everyone can develop to their best capacity. Started with philosophers considering how children become adults. Their viewpoints were not based on objective data but on their own opinions and observations: thomas hobbes: known for doctrine of original sin, doctrine of original sin: children are born inherently selfish and must be restrained by society. Development is shaped by parents, children are passive. Jean jacques rousseau: doctrine of innate purity: children are born inherently pure and are corrupted by society.
