[PSY2105] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 37 pages long Study Guide!
29 Nov 2016
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John locke: children are a product of their environment, tabula rasa: the mind is a blank slate at birth, environment is main thing influencing children. Jean jaques rousseau: children are born with innate gifts and abilities that drives development (nativism) Johann von herder: effects of culture on development (cultural relativism, native americans have strong visual/spatial skills due to hunting and gathering practices. Charles darwin: natural selection traits that are advantageous survive. Stanley hall: father of child psychology, founded developmental psychology. James baldwin: first canadian to look at child development. John watson: focused on observable behaviour, true behaviourist, taught baby to be scared of a bunny. Arnold gesell: produced age related norms for development (walking at this age, talking at this age, etc. ) Sigmund freud: five stage theory psychosexual development, at various stages of development, the libido is focused within certain bodily regions called erogenous zones. Oral: babies putting things in their mouths, sucking, swallowing, etc.
