LESSON 2: History of Developmental Psychology Flashcards
developmental psychology arose after the emergence of _____ psychology (later part of 19th century)
scientific
- primarily concerned with child and adolescent development
- began as correlational science
- focused on observation
early years
miniature adult; contained in the semen and egg at conception
preformationism
quantitatively different from the adult
homunculus
quantitatively different from the adult
homunculus
preformationism and homunculus
pre-scientific antecedents
philosophers that became the bases of developmental psychology
- John Locke
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
father of Modern Learning Theory
John Locke
father of Classical Developmental Psychology
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
father of American Developmental Psychology
G. Stanley Hall
father of Modern Intelligence Theory
Alfred Binet
father of Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud
father of Behaviorism
John Watson
for John Locke, a child was a _____
tabula rasa
natural unfolding of the child based on the innate blueprint
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
3 people who created baby biographies
- Dietrich Tiedmann
- Wilhelm Preyer
- Milicent Shinn
3 people who created baby biographies
- Dietrich Tiedemann
- Wilhelm Preyer
- Milicent Shinn
created the first baby biography
Dietrich Tiedemann
The Mind of the Child (Die Seele des Kindes)
Wilhelm Preyer
Biography of a Baby
Milicent Shinn
contribution of Charles Darwin:
- the origin of species
- individual differences and adaptation
he helped establish the field of developmental psychology in the areas of language development and language pathology
Wilhelm Preyer
study of behavior, thought, and feeling as viewed through the lens of evolutionary biology
Evolutionary Psychology
founder (?) of evolutionary psychology
Konrad Lorenz & Niko Tinbergen