PSY210H1 Lecture Notes - Contiguity, Tabula Rasa, Psych
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In ancient times, people viewed children as equivalent to animals because they lacked most of which they considered to make a human. Infanticide as a social policy and how it"s changed since then. Children are both radically different from us, but also radically the same in terms of psychology. John locke children are not that different from us. Freud and piaget stages and quantitative change: children"s behavior makes sense when you look at it from the pov of the stage they are in. Child psychology is more simple to figure out than our psychology. All development is learning- we all start out tabula rasa . We all have different histories and experiences but we all started out on the same note. Locke knew this but stood by his beliefs that some things are innate- big supporter of nativism) Just because walking is innate, doesn"t mean you"re born walking. It just means you innately have the capacity to walk: nativism.
