PSY 2105 Lecture 1: Lecture Notes Review

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2105
• Professor: Brenda Baird

Document Summary

Developmental psych: focuses on changes in behavior and ability as development occurs. Goal is to identify changes @ various stages (describe), and determine causes and processes that govern these changes (explain. ) Benefits of studying children: period of rapid development, long-term influence (early years affect adult behavior), gives more understanding to complex adult processes, real world applications. John locke, 1632-1704: all children born with blank slate, tabula rasa. Rousseau, 1712-1778: children born with knowledge and ideas, innate knowledge driving development (nativism. ) Gottfried von herder, 1744-1803: cultural relativism (need to understand specifics of different cultures to understand development of individuals. ) Darwin, 1809-1882: natural selection (advantageous traits passed on to allow survival), led to recapitulation (development of species parallels individual development through stages. ) Stanley hall: founded developmental psych, father of child psych. Watson: observable behavior, behaviorist (changes in behavior occur due to conditioning/learning. ) Gessell: biological and maturation, age-related norms for development. Sigmund freud: impact of early childhood on development.