PSYCH 3GG3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Tabula Rasa, Lev Vygotsky, Empiricism
17 Dec 2015
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7-up: longitudinal study to see if their class background determines their outcome". Visits them every 7 years, a lot was consistent with class backgrounds, but there were some exceptions- sometimes outcomes were correlated by class but not determined by class. Developmental psychology: scienti c study of recurrent psychological changes across the human lifespan usually focusing on the printed period through adulthood, sometimes middle and late adulthood. Plato: nativist- believes development is driven primarily by internal forces, even believed that children didn"t have to learn things they just had to recall things they already knew. Aristotle: empiricist- looked for empirical evidence. believed in the blank slate, newborn doesn"t have any info to recall, they learn it all empirically. Parent could potentially mould the child to be whatever type of person the parent wanted him to be- with reward & punishment can make a kid do whatever they want. John jacque rousseau: nativist who opposes the blank slate idea.
