[PSYC 289] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (12 pages long!)
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4 domains of development: physical, cognitive, personality, social. Preformationist: thought of children as miniature adults. (1695- thought a small human was contained inside the sperm and just needed time to grow into a regular sized adult) Idea of original sin: children are born sinful and need to be taught to be good. This leads to caused childcare and parenting (important for development) Children are born as this blank slate and parents teachers teach them to be good. Rousseau- innate goodness- children are born good and slowly become corrupted by the world around them. Society should take a hands off approach to childcare. Basically let the children do what they want with a small amount of guidance. Baby biographers (like darwin): documented how children developed, they sometimes used their own children to document. Scienti c study of childhood (hall, freud, watson) What is due to genetics vs what is due to the environment. Genetics (why do some identical twins look different?)
