SDS150R Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: The Blank Slate, Tabula Rasa, Canadian Psychological Association
13 May 2016
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Developmental psychology: the scientific study of age-related changes in our bodies, behaviour, thinking, emotions, social relationships, and personalities. Nurture and protect: christian doctrine of original sin -augustine of hippo, humans were born with a selfish and stubborn nature. Humans must seek redemption by leading a discipline life: parents facilitate the child"s struggle to overcome an inborn tendency to act immorally by restraining and correcting the child"s immoral tendencies. The blank slate: john locke proposed that the mind of a child is a blank slate, the blank slate view suggests that adults can mould children into whatever they want them to be. The study of human development becomes a science: Charles darwin: understood the development of the human species by studying child development. G. stanley hall: identified norms: average ages at which milestones happen. Arnold gesell: suggested the existence of a genetically programmed sequential pattern of change: maturation: the gradual unfolding of a genetically programmed sequential pattern of change.
