CHYS 2P10 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1,3,4,6,9: Pragmatics, Phenology, Universal Grammar
15 Feb 2017
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Why study child development: learning about child development is valuable for many reasons: it can help us become better parents, inform our views about social issues that affect children, and improve our understanding of human nature. Early scientific approaches such as those of freud and watson, began the movement toward modern research-based theories of child development. Methods for studying child development: the scientific method has made possible great advances in understanding children. Reliability means that independent observations of a given behaviour are consistent. Four major types of social developmental present contrasting views of the social world of children. Children face specific conflicts at each stage, and these conflicts must be resolved for healthy development to proceed. He thought that girls developed a weaker conscious than boys do: eric erikson extended freud"s theories by identifying 8 stages of psychosocial development extending across the entire life span.
