PSYB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: List Of Memory Biases, Jean Piaget, Demand Characteristics
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Course requirements: first term test, sept 24th in class, 30, oct 29th in class, 30, final exam- dec, 40% September 3rd, 2014: due to short life expectancy they were treated as miniature adults and worked labour such as adults did. In the middle ages childhood wasn"t considered: since philippes book people have seen childhood as an important aspect of development and lead to more scientific studies. Major themes in child development: different issues have arisen in child development. In any field of study there is no single theory that can account for everything we know: most theories explain very minor aspects of psychology. Psychoanalyic theory: sigmund freud, personalit= id+ego+superego, id operates on pleasure principle, maximizes pleasure, drives, ego tries to satisfy needs in sociaily acceptable manner. Behaviourism: environment plays key role in development, james watson (not john, introdued classical conditioning, learning from repeated presentation of familiar and unfamiliar stimuli, they are presented together, influenced by pavlovian experiments.