CHYS 2P10 Lecture 2: CHYS2P10 - Lecture #2

• School: Brock University
• Department: Child and Youth Studies
• Course: CHYS 2P10
• Professor: Anthony Volk

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Chys 2p10 - child development - lecture 2. I expect to see improvements in the paper vs. the debate: paper formatting is very important in order for it to be universally fair. Nature/nurture: development, as we"ll see next week, is a combination of the two, for political and practical reasons, nurture often gets extra credit. In reality, nurture is what we can control more easily than nature, so we tend to focus on it more. By then [1935] it seemed clear to us that the further study of inborn differences would have to wait for less troubled times. Freud"s contributions: the importance of the unconscious, the importance of childhood in determining later development. Erik erikson: he studied combat soldiers, child-rearing amongst the sioux and yurok, play in normal and abnormal children, adolescent identity, popular culture and adolescents, and social behavior in india. If the mother is responsive, the child learns to trust.