PSYB10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Ecological Systems Theory, Selective Breeding, Lev Vygotsky
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Chapter 3: recent perspectives on social and personality development. Gesell"s view was that children, much like plants, simply bloomed, following a pattern and timetable laid out in their genes; how parents raised their young was thought to be of little importance. Ethology: the scientific study of the evolutionary basis of behaviour and the contributions of such evolved responses to a species survival and development. According to lorenz and tinbergen, members of all animal species are born with a number of biologically programmed behaviours that are (1) products of evolution and (2) adaptive in that they contribute to survival. Ethologists focus on inborn or instinctual responses that (1) members of a species share and (2) seem to steer individuals along similar developmental paths. Human ethologists, not only believe that children display a wide variety of preprogrammed behaviours; they also claim that each of these responses promotes a particular kind of experience that will help the individual to survive and develop normally.
