PSYCH 3550 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Tabula Rasa, Sigmund Freud
3 Feb 2018
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1. 1 - look at philosophical foundations for development and events leading to the creation of child development as a new science. 1. 3 - explore themes that guide research. 1. 4 - methods used to study children and development. Parents have endless ?s as they raise their kids. Child development traces physical, mental, social, and emotional development from conception to adulthood. Plato and aristotle believed that schools taught kids discipline needed for later years. They worried too much would weaken leadership skills. Plato thought kids are born w/ concrete & abstract ideas: love, animals, courage, etc. John locke said kids are tabula rasa" = blank slate. Kids are born w/ a sense of morality and justice that unfolds as they grow. Kids worked long hours in factories w/ little pay. Reformers passed laws that stopped this and made kids attend school. Similarities b/t evolution and age-related changes in human behavior. Many scientists wrote baby biographies (systematic observations of kids)
