Developmental Psychology Flashcards
John Locke
Blank slate
Nurture
John Locke Thomas Hobbes George Berkeley David Hume James Mill John Stuart Mill
British empiricist school of thought
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Society is detrimental to development
Emile: concerning education
Stanley Hall
Father of developmental psychology
Empirical research on children
Founder of child and adolescent psychology
John Watson
Behaviorist
Extreme
Arnold Gesell
Physical maturation determines development, regardless of practice
Gregor Mendel
DNA chromosome
Tyron
Specific behavior has corresponding genes
Maze-running rats
Lewis Terman
Study on gifted children with high IQ
Jean Piaget
Cognitive structuralist
Assimilation and accommodation
Four stages of cognitive development
Lev Vygotsky
Cultural influences on cognitive development
Internalization of language, culture, rules, etc.
Zone of proximal development
Lenneberg, Rebelsky, Nichols
Babbling
Petitto and Marentette
Babbling of gestures in deaf children
Noam Chomsky
Linguist
Transformational grammar
Syntactic transformation
LAD
Genie
Sensitive period of language development