PSY210H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: External Validity, Naturalistic Observation, Internal Validity
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How children develop - chapter 1 introduction to child. 3 reasons to learn about child development: help raise own children, insight into social-policy issues related to children, better understand human nature. 1. 1 historical foundations of the study of child development. Frued: psychoanalytic theory biological drives, especially sexual ones are crucial in uence on development. Watson: behaviourist theory: child development determined by environmental factors; i. e. rewards and punishments. 1. 2 enduring themes in child development: the n-n problem. Nature: innate stu (plato) - born with innate abilities. Activities such as playing, laughing etc: continuity/discontinuity: continuous: child"s development as a process of small changes like a tree going taller and taller discontinuous: transition from caterpillar to cocoon to butter y. Common observation: children of di erent ages seem qualitatively di erent. 2 years later: of course! stage theories: development occurs in a progression of duinstict age-related stages.
