PSYC 250 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Umbilical Cord, Categorical Perception, Methylmercury
8 Dec 2017
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Learning about child development is valuable for many reasons: it can help us become better parents, it can inform our views about social issues that affect children, it can improve our understanding of human nature. Historical foundations of the study of child development. Plato, aristotle, locke, and rousseau raised basic questions about child development and proposed interesting hypotheses about them, but they lacked the scientific methods to answer them. Early scientific approaches, such as those of freud and watson, began the movement toward modern research-based theories of child development. Every aspect of development, from the most specific behaviour to the most general trait, reflects both people"s biological endowment, and the experiences that they have had. Even infants and young children actively contribute to their own development through their attentional patterns, use of language, and choices of activities. Many developments can appear either continuous or discontinuous, depending on how often and how closely we look at them.
