PSYC 351 Chapter 1: Social & Personality Development

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 351
• Professor: Tom Hollenstein

Document Summary

Emergence of a psychology of childhood: founder of developmental psychology = stanley hall (cid:224) developed questionnaires to study children"s minds, found that children don"t follow logic, first to coin the concept of adolescence, gave developmental psychology stricter methodology than baby bios, freud followed soon after. Early philosophical perspectives on human nature: original sin: idea that children are inherently selfish egoists who must be controlled by society (hobbes, innate purity: idea that infants are born with innate sense of right & wrong that is often misdirected by the demands & restrictions of society (rousseau, tabula rasa: blank slate mind of a child influenced by experience (locke) Activity vs. passivity issue: debate among developmental psychologists about whether children are active contributors to their own development, or passive recipients of environmental influence, child is active" whenever any child characteristic influences the environment he/she experiences (cid:224) this does not have to be a conscious choice.