HUMA 1970 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Developmental Psychology
15 Dec 2013
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Introduce approaches to the developmental study of children and childhood. Reflect on the significance of studying development in relationship to children as a way to understand the social construction of childhood. Scientific models of analysis that concentrate on identifying normal patterns of children s physical, emotional and cognitive development as well as variations from the norm. Positivist approach observation and measurement as a means to understand developmental models. Linear model of development must progress through stages to attain certain milestones. Much of what we read in this field builds from developmental psychology. Development is neither a precise concept, nor a neutral one . Developmental research is not a straightforward enterprise of establishing the truth about the way children really are. Child development is only one way of thinking about (or constructing) childhood. Links age, appearance, gender, behaviour, social class, and knowledge to expectations of competencies. Developmental research is a product of time and place, reflecting concerns of the period.
