Week 2

Question 1

Plato & Rousseau VS Aristotle & Locke

Answer 1

Plato & Rousseau see child development at innate (nature)

Aristotel & Locke see development as shaped through experience (nurture)

Question 2

Darwins role in child development

Answer 2

diary of child development

Question 3

Freud

Answer 3

unconscious desires & early years & emotional bonds

Question 4

Watson

Answer 4

In behaviourism, children learn through operant conditioning (reward and punishment)

Nurture

Little Albert, Mold any kid

Question 5

Constraints on Dev’t (2 categories)

Answer 5

Sociocultural (physical, social, economic, cultural, historical

Cognitive: how children process info (cognitive maturation across lifespan)

Question 6

Piaget

Answer 6

founded cog development, constructivism

3 ways of constructivist theory building
Assimilation (translate info into a way they can understand), Accommodation (revise knowledge structures in response to new info), Equilibration (balance the two to create stable understanding)

Stages of Dev’t

Question 7

Piagetian Theory/Piagets Stages of Dev’t

Answer 7

Sensorimotor (0-2y)- livce in the here and now

Preoperational (2-7y)- fail conservation tests & others perspectives, apperance (trans)

concrete operational (7-12y)- cant test hypothesis

Formal Operational (12+)- not all reach this stage, can experiment, can think abstractly

Question 8

probs with Piaget

Answer 8

constructivism– probs with poverty of experience
(but piagets the whole history was based on how kids construct knowledge through interacting with the world)

Stages– inconsistency of the timeline

Infants know coherence, continuity & contact close to birth, usually need right motivators for tests