FRHD 2270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Operant Conditioning, Psychodynamics, Tabula Rasa
SEPT 12
Theoretical Positions
• All hildre hae theories aout the orld
• Need to uderstad the perso’s perspetie
o Where they are coming from
• How an adult sees the world is different than how a child sees it
Viewing Child vs Society/Family
• Child influences society
o Everyone from the outside
• What are people on the outside (social – family) doing to influence children
Biological Perspective
• All development based on biological plan
o Cognitive, personality, physical, motor development
• Earl 9’s
• Doesn’t atter here ou are or / iolog is iolog
o Everyone is the same
• Stanley Hall: 1st to empirically study child development
o Normative development
▪ 100,000 children
▪ Start to see a pattern
▪ Thinking generally
▪ Know if something is wrong with your child
• Brain/neurological issues
o Created APA
• Darwin
o Survival of the fittest
o Natural selection – biology
▪ Best adapting offspring to reproduce
• Gesell
o Maturational theory
▪ Eouraged parets hildre ill deelop aturall o their o ased o
predetermined developmental timetable
▪ Parets to do othig
• Ecological
o Taking experience into consideration
o Behaviours are adapted
▪ Survival value (crying)
o Experience in necessary
▪ Critical period
▪ Better to have issues early in life while things are still developing
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