PSYB32H3 Lecture 1: psyb20 chapter1
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Chapter 1: child development: themes, theories and methods. Child development interested in what things change as children get older and how these changes happen. Research in child development started barely 100 yrs ago. Charles darwin one of most notable conducted research on infants sensory capacities and young children"s emotions. Which demonstrated that scientists could study infants and children. John b. watson, sigmund freud, and jean piaget all important as well. Canadian psychological association formed in 1938 (46 yrs after apa) Earliest and most significant event in canadian development psych was appointment of james baldwin to uoft in. Established first psych lab on british soil. Using own daughter as subject, examined and published papers on topics such as handedness, suggestion and will in infancy, and imitation. St. george"s school for child study opened in 1926, still open today as institute for child study.
