PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Dionne Quintuplets, Child Development, Sigmund Freud
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Chapter 1 child development: themes, theories and methods. Child development: a sub-area of the discipline of developmental psychology that seeks to answer how the child is able to understand and create complex relation, learn new information and to interact and feel responsibility toward other people. To understand the changes and process, they devise theories, design and carry out empirical studies to test these theories and suggest practical applications based on their research. Darwin conducted research on infants" sensory early sensory and perceptual capacities and children"s emotions demonstrating that scientists could study infants and children. Formal analysis of children"s learning capacities was continued by john b. watson. In canada, james mark baldwin used his daughter as a subject and published papers on mental illness although his first recognition is for establishing the first psychology laboratory in british. Institute of child study (formerly known as st. george"s school for child study 1926) was headed by dev.
