PSYCH 3JJ3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Empiricism, Behaviorism, Child Mortality
25 Oct 2017
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Medieval approach: children were thought to be the same as adults. There was no discussion on how their brain/development might be different from that of an adult. Child mortality was high, and those that did survive were forced into labour with adults. And were therefore, not considered to be any different. Darwin: evolutionary approach to development, speci cally the development of our emotions. Stanley hall: psychologist (1904) who used questionnaires (as a testing method) to document children"s activities, attitudes and emotions. John b. watson: a behaviourist - argued that learning occurs through conditioning. Conditioning techniques can be used to modify or acquire new behaviours. Social interaction and attitudes can only be measured through observable behaviour. (watson would have has a. Sigmund freud: (1905) - more biologically oriented view (although he held a biological- environment interactional perspective). He claimed that social behaviour is determined by how adults had handled their basic human impulses doing infancy/childhood.
