PSYC 251 Chapter 1: Psych Chapter 1 text notes.docx

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 251
• Professor: Elizabeth Kelley

Document Summary

Setting the stage: child-development: field studying physical, mental, social, and emotional development from conception to maturity. Plato believed that kids are born with innate knowledge (of concrete objects) and knowledge of abstractions (love etc) conceptual knowledge. He said that human sense are too fallible to have experience be the source of knowledge. In his view children"s sensory experiences simply trigger knowledge they had from birth. However, after the urbanization of the industrial revolution, children started working long hours in factories under horrendous conditions. Early scientists: g. stanley hall generated theories of child development based on evolution, conducted studies to determine age trends in children"s beliefs and feelings, founded first english child-development scientific journal and first president of. Apa: alfred binet devised first mental iq tests, sigmeud freud linked early experiences with adult patterns of behavior. John b. watson, founder of behaviorism, wrote on importance of reward and punishment for child-rearing.