PSYC 2450 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Random Assignment, Response Bias, Cortisol

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2450
• Professor: Heidi Bailey

Document Summary

Plato and aristotle believes that schools and parents had the responsibility for teaching children the self control that would make then efecive ciizens too much discipline would sile their iniiaive and individuality. Plato thought that children are born with innate knowledge of concrete objects such as animals and people and of abstracions such as courage, love, etc. Sensory experiences trigger knowledge they have always had. Aristotle thought that knowledge is rooted in perceptual experience. Locke portrayed the infant as a blank slate and claimed that experience moulds the child parents should instruct and discipline young children, relaxing their authority as they grow older. Rousseau believed that babies have an innate sence of jusice and morality that unfolds as children grow through their developmental stages parents should be responsive and recepive. Push toward child development as a science came from two events: Children were forced to work long hours in factories and many were killed or injured.