PSYC 2450 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: John Dewey, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Arnold Gesell
7 Sep 2013
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Unit 1: entering a child"s world (chapters 1 and 2) Theoretical issues and perspectives: researchers offer us hypotheses, data, explanations and predictions ~ all governed by perspective. Emerged as 12 year old from forest, after training still couldn"t speak and was totally focused on his own needs. First systematic attempt to study child development. The study of child development: then and now. Child development: study of processes of change and stability in human children. Quantitative change: change in number or amount, e. g. height, frequency of communication. Qualitative change: change in kind, structure or organization, discontinuous and unpredictable, e. g. change from nonverbal child to one that understands words. Most people show underlying stability in aspects of personality and behaviour, e. g. consistently shy. Journals kept to record early development of single child: dietrich tiedemann (1987/1787) - observations of son"s motor, sensory, language and cognitive development.
