Explain the Physcology of Child Development Flashcards

What do you know about the psychology of child development? From birth until the first year, a child is referred to as a baby. Developmental psychologist differs magnanimously in their perceptions of infant psychology. The order of child development is infant to early childhood and early childhood to adolescence. Read and study these flashcards and then take this quiz to see how much you learned.

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How to be better parents
-information and understanding can help parents raise their children successfully
Help choose and shape social policies
-help society adopt policies that promote children's well-being -improve education system
Understand human nature
-child devel. research is a window into human nature and the human mind in general -understand atypical develop. or problem behavior to prevent or treat it
Early philosophical views
- 4th centure - beginning of nature-nuurture deabete -plato believed in in innate knowledge, Aristotle believed in what was the world who shaped us through experience
Plato
Innate knowledge
Aristotle
Who was the world that shaped us through experience
17th - behaviorist
-environment shapes us John Locke
Tabula Rasa (John Locke)
Idea that you are born soft and malleable and the environment imprints on you, shaped by forces around you. Passive development -importance of early strict parenting-progressive freedom. Earn freedom
18th Piagetian
-discovery learning and stages of development an dlearning
Jean Jacques Rossseau
-children are inherently good -children learn through spontaneous interactions with objects an people otehr than instruction -biological maturation, gentic blue print -some type of frame work and evolve biologically
19th century
Beginning research on children because: -social reform movements- fit means of economy -Charles Darwin Theory of Evolution
Charles Darwin Theory of Evolution
-biographical sketch of an infant, expressed thought of progressive change. We don't only change over time but learn and adapt.
19th and 20th
Psychoanalytic Theory, Psychosocial Theory, Behaviorism, Cognitive Development
Freud
Psychoanalytic Theory: Psychosexual Theory -famous for how unconscious desires influence developement -5 stages -parents job to maintain sexual and aggressive drives -ID, S. Ego, Ego
Erikson
Psychosocial Theory -8 stages where conflict must be resolved -first and only theory that develops over life span