PSYC21H3 Chapter 1: CHAPTER ONE.docx
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Process that leads to changes in behavr and differences among children. Others have more practical concerns: gather info to help people. Some scholars have descriptive" concerns: wanting to unravel mysteries. Newborns can recognize their own mothers by smell. Social development: a brief history in medieval period, children viewed as miniature adults. Many died in infancy or early childhood and if survived worked in mines/fields. Freud: biological view: s. devel"t product of how adults handled childrens basic drives (ex. sucking) Arnold gesell: social skills unfold over course of infancy and childhood (like motor skills) Nature: heredity and maturation: biology destined and devel based on genetic factors, which guide natural maturation (a biologically determined process of growth that unfolds over time) unfolding of complex social skills and abilities. Gesell advocate of this view nurture: learning and experience watson : by organizing environment, can determine outcome of infant. Both affect social develop"t but how do they interact is challenge to find out.