PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Operant Conditioning, Scientific Method, Lev Vygotsky
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Scientific theory public announcement of what a scientist believes to be true in their specialized area of study. Innate purity vs. original sin: tabula rasa blank slate (children born pure or evil or blank) Child"s own role in own development (active vs. Continuity (how continuous is development: continuous: curve smooth, discontinuous: curve not smooth (looks like staircase) Quantitative: continuous, change in degree (ex: age , height ) Qualitative change: discontinuous (change in kind) organism fundamentally different (ex: tadpole frogs & caterpillars butterfly: connectedness of development. What is the connectiveness of early and later childhood development. Child smiles at everyone, teenager = weariness of strangers) Similarity vs. differences: universal developmental changes: Similarities: language development & sexual maturity @ same age period. Differences: vary culture to culture b/w individuals. Theories of child development: psychoanalytic viewpoint, freud"s psychosexual development, erick erikson (freud"s student, freud = psychiatrist (victorian era) Hit the root (traumatic events from an adult"s childhood)
