PSYC21H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Albert Bandura, Social Change, Genital Stage
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Chapter 1: introduction theories of social development. Child labour laws were not enacted till the 1800s. Study of children development began with charles darwin. Paved the way for the study of emotion. G. stanley hall used questionnaires to document children"s activities, feelings, and attitudes. John b. watson argued that conditioning and learning were the processes by which social and emotional behaviour are acquired and modified. Freud claimed that social development was the product of how adults handled children"s basic drives, such as the infants drive to suck. Nature: biology is destiny and the course of development is predetermined by genetic factors which guide the natural maturation (predetermined process of growth that unfolds over a period of time) of complex social skills and abilities. Nurture: environment genetic factors put no restriction on the ways that environmental events shape the course of children"s development. Organizing the environment could train any infant to become an athlete etc.
