PSYCH 228 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Tabula Rasa, Social Learning Theory, Logical Reasoning
11 Apr 2018
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Developmental psychology: scientific approach to study the constancy and change across the lifespan. Meta-analysis: a method for combining the results from independent studies to reach conclusions based on all of them. Amygdala: an area of the brain that is involved in emotional reactions. Reasons to study child development: raising children, social policy, understanding human nature. Types of theories: common sense/ naive/ folk theories, based on personal experience, implicit, scientific theories, based on data, debated and coherent. Rousseau: believed parents should give kids freedom and learn from spontaneous interactions with objects and people. Locke: viewed kids as a blank slate need discipline. John watson: behaviorist theory, believes that kids are influences by environmental factors (rewards and punishment) Freud: psychoanalytic theory, biological drives (sexual) influence development. Themes of child development: nature and nurture, nature: our biological endowment; the genes we receive from our parents, nurture: the environment, both physical and social that influence development, * not a dichotomy*
