PSYC 3520 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cultural-Historical Psychology, Lev Vygotsky, Smallpox

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3520
• Professor: Mariela Giuliano

Document Summary

Philosophical perspective: we are interested in the various outcomes associated with different experiences as well as the relationship of these experienced with our biological history. Parental perspective: we are interested in what develops, when it develops, and how. Moreover we want to know how we can improve or promote development. Applied perspective: we are interested in taking scientific information and using this information to improve medical, educational, and nutritional care of children. Internal drives/frustration/aggression: piaget had an active view of development. Childs actions drive development: normal and atypical development, children differ in rate, but the same child can have different rates, using atypical development to understand normative development and normative development to understand atypical development, culture and context. We can study historical views of children through: literary evidence: parental diaries, letters, advice documents. Quantitative and archival evidence: census and other various registers and records.