PSYC21H3 Chapter 1: PSYC21 - Chapter 1
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Chapter 1 - introduction, theories of social development. Back then, saw children as mini adults. Neglected their need to learn at young age. Charles darin, g. stanley hall, john b. watson, sigmund freud, arnold gesell. Critical questions about social development: biological and environmental influences. Heredity and maturation vs learning and experience. Expression of inherited biological characteristics are shaped, modified and directed by particular set of environmental circumstances: role of children. Constantly undergoing change as result of mutual influence process. Transactional: ongoing interchanges between social partners like parents and child across time that result in modifications of the social behaviour: unit for studying. Shifted to social dyads: pair of social partners. Nature of social interactions and exchanges between pairs of children or between children and parents. Mother father child: development as continuous or discontinuous. Stage theories of development = as children get older, they move through different stages and at each new stage, learn new strategies.
