Intro

Question 1

Normative vs ideographic development

Answer 1

• Developmental theories need to account for both findings
• Normative development: Typical patterns of development e.g. Language acquisition
• Ideographic development: Individual differences in rate or extent of development

Question 2

Development chronology

Answer 2

• Period of life - approximate age
• Parental period - conception to birth
• Infancy - 0-18 months
• Toddlerhood - 18 month - 3 years
• Preschool period (young children) - 3 -5 years
• Middle childhood (older children) - 6 - 12/13 years
• Adolescence - about 12 - 20 years

Question 3

History

Answer 3

• Present day: western cultures are child centered
• Modern conceptualization of childbearing practices influenced by Hobbes (original sin) vs Rousseau’s (innate purity) and Locke’s notion of the infant mind (tabula rasa)