PSYCH 241 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Tabula Rasa, Sigmund Freud, Erik Erikson
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Three big questions about human development: continuous/discontinuous development: Nature: inborn biological givens: hereditary information we receive from our parents at the moment of conception. One course: people everywhere follow the same sequence of development; stage theorists may try to identify the common influences that influence development. Many courses: children grow up in distinct contexts; unique combinations of personal and environmental circumstances that can result in different paths of change: shy kids vs. extroverted kids; western vs non-western societies. Children: described as wearing comfy gowns, playing games, and looking up to adults; distinguished as under age 7 or 8 different and recognized that teens weren"t fully mature. Religious writings contradictory views of children sometimes portraying them as devils sometimes as angels: puritan view: "depraved child". : the puritan belief in original sin gave rise to the view that children were born evil and stubborn and had to be civilized.
