PSYC 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Sigmund Freud, Neurology, Developmental Psychology
30 May 2018
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PSYC 2110 Lecture 15 Notes
Introduction
Origins of a Science of Development
• Canadian children moved from being viewed as family property to dependents in need
of state protection.
• Slowly this gave way to the recognition that children were semi-independent individuals
with rights of their own.
• Now society is moving toward recognition that children are entities in their own right
and should be afforded the economic security guaranteed to other members of society.
• G. Stanley Hall conducted the first large-scale scientific investigation of children, and
because of this he is considered by most to be the founder of developmental psychology
as a research discipline (White, 1992).
• Well aware of the shortcomings of baby biographies, Hall set out in the late 19th
century to collect more objective data on larger samples.
• “peifiall, he as iteested i hilde’s thikig, ad he deeloped a o failia
research tool—the questionnaire—to eploe the otets of hilde’s ids (Hall,
1891).
• B askig hilde uestios aout a age of topis, Hall disoeed that hilde’s
udestadig of the old gos apidl duig hildhood ad that the logi of oug
children is not very logical at all.
• Hall later wrote an influential book titled Adolescence (1904) that was the first work to
call attention to adolescence as a unique phase of the human life span.
• At aout the tie Hall as usig uestioaies to stud hilde’s ids, a young
European neurologist was trying a different method of probing the mind and revealing
its contents.
• The euologist’s appoah as e fuitful, poidig ifoatio that led hi to
propose a theory that revolutionized thinking about children and childhood.
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