PSY210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dionne Quintuplets, Konrad Lorenz, Romanian Orphans
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Scientific study of changes or continuities in an organism between initial conception and death. Definition of child psychology taking out of the book on pg. 4. Nativist: emphasizes the role of nature (or innate factors) in development: Empiricist: emphasizes the role of nurture (or the environment) in development. A new scientific field is born early 1800s and early 1900s the field of developmental psychology was born. The field was highly multidisciplinary and had many practical applications. Darwin: he did an observational study, hall, binet, watson, and freud. Many early developmental researchers were concerned with how to better the education of the masses ( an applied goal) banane? he became well know for actually developing tests to determine whether they actually have disabilities. Poor children were not succeeding academically in the same way as wealthier children. The goal of applied research is to solve practical problems.
