PSYB10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Developmental Psychology, Egg Cell, Confounding
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Development: the systematic continuities and changes in the individual that occur between conception (when a sperm penetrates an ovum creating a new organism) and death. Newborns have no prejudices or preconceptions; they speak no language; they obey no man-made laws; and they sometimes behave as if they were living for the next feeding. John locke (1690/1913) could describe the neonate (newborn) as a tabula rasa (blank slate) who is receptive to any and all kinds of experience. Children develop in a manner and direction prescribed by their cultures, subcultures, and families. Socialization: the process by which individuals acquire the beliefs, values, and behaviours considered desirable or appropriate by their culture or subculture. The socialization of each succeeding generation serves society in three ways: Helps to promote the personal growth of an individual. Expose infants to a simulated acre of land but cut off culture and other people from them.
