PSYCH211 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Tabula Rasa, Behaviorism

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH211
• Professor: Shaylene Nancekivell

Document Summary

Noble savages - naturally endowed with sense of right and wrong and innate plan for orderly healthy growth. Believed built in moral sense and unique ways of thinking feeling only harmed by adult training. Includes stage concept (qualitative changes in thinking, feeling, behaving that characterize specific periods of development - like climbing a staircase) Include maturation concept, which refers to genetically determined naturally unfolding course of growth. Saw children as determining own destinies, viewed development as discontinuous, stage wise process that follows single unified course mapped out by nature. Children move through a series of stages in which they confront conflicts between biological drives and social expectations. How these conflicts are resolved determines person"s ability to learn, get along with others and cope with anxiety. Psychosexual theory - emphasizes that how parents manage their child"s sexual and aggressive drives in first few years is crucial for healthy personality development.