PSYCH 2AA3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Child Development, Moral Agency, 6 Years
10 Dec 2014
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1. 1 setting the stage: historical views of children/childhood, plato (400s bc) Children are born with innate knowledge of concrete objects and abstractions, and sensory experiences simply trigger it. Parents should be responsible to teach children self-control, making them effective citizens: aristotle (300s bc) Parents should limit discipline, as it stifles children"s initiative/individuality, making them unfit to be leaders: john locke (1600s) Children are born with a mind like a blank slate/tabula rasa, so experience shapes them. Parents should instruct, reward, and discipline children, but gradually relax their authority as they grow: jean jacques rousseau (1700s) Children are endowed with an innate sense of morality that unfolds as they grow, moving through developmental stages (infancy, childhood, adolescence) Parents should be responsive/receptive to children"s needs, instead of discipline: origins of new science, industrial revolution. Children worked long hours in poor conditions for little pay. Reformers worked to limit child labour and keep them in schools.
