FRHD 2270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Clinical Psychology, Operant Conditioning, Unification Church

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 2270
• Professor: Chuang

Document Summary

We unknowingly or knowingly have explanations for everything around us. A theory cannot prove anything, there is not reality however there are individua interpretations about what is happening. A theory uses data to support an individual"s interpretation. How an adult views the world is quite different to how a child sees the world. Some theories believe that the child influences society while others look at how environment and society influence the child. All development is based on a biological plan, where you"re born doesn"t matter on the same timeline. Stanley hall - creator of apa and first american to receive a ph. d. in psychology. 100,000 children came to the conclusion of normative development. Generally age ranges tend to have similar development, this is how parents/social workers/ teachers ensure that a child"s physical and m development is not delayed. Explaining the high mortality during this time period, the genetically newborns lived.