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Developmental Psychology chapter 1 notes Introduction to Child Development.
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Date: 22 / June / 2022Topic: Introduction to Child development CH 1
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keypoints: Reasons to study child development:
→ for raising children → for understanding social policies → to inform out views on social issues
1. Why should we study child development? \
2. What is nature v.s nurture? History of child development:
3. Biological changes/development? Plato emphasized self control and discipline important goals. Said that knowledge is innate.
4. Is development continuous or discontinuous? Aristotle was more concerned with fitting child brought up to the needs of individual child. Believed tha
knowledge comes from experience.
John Locke also believed that knowledge comes from experience and the most important goal of raising
Methods for studying child development child is developing child character.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed that children should be given more freedom in order to learn
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The scientific method.
interactions w objects and people. Also argued that children should not receive any formal education
Contents for gathering data about until are 12.
children.
Correlation and causation Biological changes that effect child development/ nature:
Research design for examining
children's development. Epigenetics: switching on and off of genes influenced by a person's environment.
Ethical issues in child-development Effect can be positive or negative depending on exervironment, including prenatal Environment.
research.
Environmental changes that can effect child development/nurture:
Family, life stressors, education, social economic status, treatment by parents or peers, Society, culture
Development continuous or discontinuous:
It was known that development is discontinuous but recently researchers have concluded that
development is gradual changes rather than sudden
Methods of studying child development:
Approach to testing beliefs.
Hypothesis →developing a method for testingthe hypothesis, using data gathered by the method to
draw a conclusion.
Ways of gathering data about children: i. Structured interviews, clinical interviews, questionnaires,
structured observations
Two types of observations: naturalistic:environment not controlled, stunctured: control identical
situations for everyone.
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