PSYC 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tabula Rasa, Developmental Psychology, Longitudinal Study

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2110
• Professor: Maxine A G Wintre

Document Summary

Transformation - looking how language emerges and transform. Doll experimental - give a child a doll as an act of figure of father or mother. How the child play with the dolls that represents one of their family member. Stranger anxiety in infants (ages of 6 and 12 months of age) infants are fearful if a stranger approaches them. Stranger anxiety was universal (evolutionary theory - charles darwin). Behavioral - when a child smiles it makes parents happy and want to interact with them more. 1600s - children were not consider human until the age of 4-mortality rates was so high that they weren"t investing in the kids. After age 8 they were consider adults and got sent out to work (church) 1970s - they identify adolescent as a different stage. 1980s- started to do research gerontology (science of aging) 2000s- emergent adulthood (arnett) ages 18 to 30, not financially independent, require more education such as having children and etc.