PSYC100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: L-Vocalization, Attachment Theory, Primitive Reflexes
21 Mar 2017
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Developmental psychologists investigate when certain behaviors first appear and how behaviors change with age. Study how development of one area affects other areas. Concerned with course/causes of lifetime developmental changes. 1690s: john locke believed that nurture promoted development environmental experiences had effect on child development. Newborn: tabula rasa blank slate: adults write on blank slate teach them about world/how to behave. John watson: behaviorism we learn everything: no such thing as inheritance of capacity. Jean-jacques rousseau believed that nature promoted development children are capable of discovering how world operates independent from help from adults. Arnold gesell discovered that most developmental skills: nature relatively unaffected by nurture: maturation natural growth/change that occurs in a fixed sequence independent of environment. Newborns can see at birth but blurry vision: 20/300. An object 20 feet away appears as clearly as it would for a good eye seeing it from 300 feet away.
