Why do we study development? - ANSWER 1. Raising children
2. Social policy
3. Child health
4. How does the mind work?
5. Understanding human nature
Controlled-Rearing Study - ANSWER Known as deprivation study, a study method
which controls how subjects are raised or will study a subject that has been raised in a
controlled environment. An example -- Gene: raised in extreme deprivation.
What question can Controlled-Rearing Studies answer? - ANSWER If we're wondering
how something develops or what kind of experiences are necessary to build something into
cognition or into the mind then what this study does is take this ability away.
-Answers whether or not this ability develops in the absence of the experience taken away
Why are case studies relevant, even when they're unethical? - ANSWER Helps us
address and understand ancient questions about nature
Philosophers - ANSWER Greeks - knowledge is experience/adjust child rearing per
child or innate/strict discipline
Aristotle on Development - ANSWER believed that knowledge comes from experience,
nurture.
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, Plato on Development - ANSWER believed that knowledge was built-in and infants just
need to learn how to vocalize it, native.
John Locke's Theory - ANSWER believed the mind was a blank slate and is developed
through experience. Placed all of his emphasis on nurture.
What was the start of empirical research/data? - ANSWER Early 1800s and started
because of the need for social reform in the child labor movement by using LONGITUDINAL
STUDIES which kept track of a study throughout it's lifetime, this work begin by Charles
Darwin
Charles Darwin Theory - ANSWER Evolution by natural selection and drew parallels
between humans prenatal growth and other animals.
Freud's Theory - ANSWER behavior motivated by unconscious, instinctual drives.
-More than conscious mind, and argued that a majority of thoughts aren't conscious.
Universal Developmental Stages - ANSWER -The type of drive changes over
development through universal developmental stages.
-Different stages change at specific period of times
Positive Findings from Freud - ANSWER -Pointed out the mystery of infantile amnesia.
-Emphasized early experience.
-We have an unconscious mind -- Project Implicit
Negative Findings from Freud - ANSWER -Overemphasis on sexuality
-Little or no evidence, claims are too vague to test.
Watson's Theory - ANSWER -Reaction to Freudian Analysis and wanted testable
theories.
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2. Social policy
3. Child health
4. How does the mind work?
5. Understanding human nature
Controlled-Rearing Study - ANSWER Known as deprivation study, a study method
which controls how subjects are raised or will study a subject that has been raised in a
controlled environment. An example -- Gene: raised in extreme deprivation.
What question can Controlled-Rearing Studies answer? - ANSWER If we're wondering
how something develops or what kind of experiences are necessary to build something into
cognition or into the mind then what this study does is take this ability away.
-Answers whether or not this ability develops in the absence of the experience taken away
Why are case studies relevant, even when they're unethical? - ANSWER Helps us
address and understand ancient questions about nature
Philosophers - ANSWER Greeks - knowledge is experience/adjust child rearing per
child or innate/strict discipline
Aristotle on Development - ANSWER believed that knowledge comes from experience,
nurture.
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, Plato on Development - ANSWER believed that knowledge was built-in and infants just
need to learn how to vocalize it, native.
John Locke's Theory - ANSWER believed the mind was a blank slate and is developed
through experience. Placed all of his emphasis on nurture.
What was the start of empirical research/data? - ANSWER Early 1800s and started
because of the need for social reform in the child labor movement by using LONGITUDINAL
STUDIES which kept track of a study throughout it's lifetime, this work begin by Charles
Darwin
Charles Darwin Theory - ANSWER Evolution by natural selection and drew parallels
between humans prenatal growth and other animals.
Freud's Theory - ANSWER behavior motivated by unconscious, instinctual drives.
-More than conscious mind, and argued that a majority of thoughts aren't conscious.
Universal Developmental Stages - ANSWER -The type of drive changes over
development through universal developmental stages.
-Different stages change at specific period of times
Positive Findings from Freud - ANSWER -Pointed out the mystery of infantile amnesia.
-Emphasized early experience.
-We have an unconscious mind -- Project Implicit
Negative Findings from Freud - ANSWER -Overemphasis on sexuality
-Little or no evidence, claims are too vague to test.
Watson's Theory - ANSWER -Reaction to Freudian Analysis and wanted testable
theories.
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