PSYC 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Tabula Rasa, Industrial Revolution, Epigenetics
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History of child development, plato:nature emphasized self-control and discipline as the most important goals of education (borstelmann, 1983), children have innate knowledge, aristotle:nurture fitting child-rearing to the needs of the individual child, knowledge comes from experience. Both believe welfare of future society children depend on proper raising of children: locke:early restriction, tabula rasa: children are blank state that reflect nurture, high discipline early, relaxed as grow older vs. Vs: rousseau:later education, maximum freedom from beginning, children should not receive any formal education until age. 12, when they reach the age of reason : judge for themselves right vs. wrong, social reform movements, forbid employment of children during industrial revolution, evolution. Innate fear of spiders/snakes: beginnings of child deveopment theories, freud, childhood experiences/dreams, biological/sexual drives shape development, watson, behaviorist theory, development is determined by environmental factors, especially the rewards and punishments that follow the children"s actions. Themes in child development: nature vs. nurture, nature: biological endowment;genes from parents.
