PSYCH101 Chapter 1-4: Infants and Children Prenatal through Middle Childhood 8th ed Chapters 1-4 Summary

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Toni Serafini

Document Summary

Introduction: developmental science includes changes experienced throughout lifespan, child development is devoted to just understanding the change from conception to adolescence. Interdisciplinary study and req. many professionals to create a good understanding of children. Domains of development: physical, cognitive, emotional and social: the 3 domains of development influence each other and cannot be looked at alone. A balanced point of view: nature and nurture interact with each other to develop a child. Contributions and limitations of psychoanalytic theory: psychoanalytical theorists focused too much on clinical, case study method instead of considering other methods and have therefore become isolated from rest of the field. Behaviourism and social learning theory: behaviourism: directly observable events are the appropriate focus of study (stimuli- response) Jean"s cognitive-developmental theory: children actively construct knowledge as they manipulate and explore their world. Information processing: human mind = symbol-manipulating system through which info flows.