PSYC 304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: John Bowlby, Explanatory Power, Lev Vygotsky
22 Jun 2016
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Tabula rosa: blank state child id product of his environment no knowledge, no preferences. All content (data, rules) is derived from experiences: associations, repetition. Side note: locke"s self the little and almost insensible impressions on our tender infancies have vert important and lasting consequences . Development proceeds according to an inborn timetable. Rousseau: nature provides children with its own guide for growth, including their own modes of feeling and thinking . Nativism: development unfolds in a series of stages. Experience world through senses, ar active; intuitive, concrete reasoning relates to experience; minimal interest in social rels till puberty; eventual interest in theoretical reasoning emerges: experience provides knowledge, but child ought to be the guide. But we run risk orf interfering with nature"s plan: everything is good in leaving the hands of the creator of things: everything degenerates in the hands of men . In any species there will be a variation among certain traits (hair color, your speed, strength)
