CHAD 060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Jean Piaget, Psychodynamics, Longitudinal Study

• School: SJSU
• Department: Child and Adolescent Development, Department of
• Course: CHAD 060
• Professor: Ellen Middaugh

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Introduction to the field of chad wednesday, january 31st, why study child development, trying to understand difference between different age groups, predicting what s going to happen, make better schools, make better social policies e. Increase opportunities: understanding development by comparing age differences, comparing language/acquisition/ moral reasoning at diff stages of life, understanding development by examining relationship between developmental phases, longitudinal studies i. Following: supporting development by studying interventions, comparing children with and without intervention, periods of development. Infancy (0-3: prenatal b, early childhood (3-6, middle childhood (6-12, adolescence (puberty to adulthood, domain, social, cognitive, physical, emotional, contexts, school, neighborhood, family, culture, religion, what is a theory, darwins theory i. Theory of evolution: how we become human through natural collection, theory = a framework for explaining patterns and problems of human development c. Behaviorist theories: learning by associating behavior and consequence (ie stimulus and response, skinner: direct rewards, classical conditioning, reward before the bad behavior iii.