Child Development

Child Development

1. Tabula Rasa View

   • Aristotle
     • Kids are blank slates
       • Environment Influenced
       • Experience Influenced.
   • John Locke
     • Advocated for parents to be good role models
       • Self-Control
       • Kindness
       • Honesty

2. Innate Goodness

   • Infants are born good
   • Society Corrupts children
   • Can result in self harm

3. Domains of Development

   • 1. Physical
   • 2. Cognitive
   • 3. Socioemotional

4. Developmental Issues

   • Nature
   • Sensitive Periods
   • Development Occurs Continuously

5. History

   • Original Sin
     • All born of the original sin of Adam and Eve
       • Children are born good
       • Children must accept moral doctrine
       • Society should behave appropriately

6. Stages of Development

   • 1. Prenatal
     • 2. Infancy and Toddlerhood
       • 3. Early Childhood
         • 4. Middle Childhood
           • 5. Adolescence
             • 6. Early Adult
               • 7. Middle Childhood
                 • 8. Late Adult
                   • 9. Death and Dying

7. Theories Of Development

   • Psychodynamic Theory
     • Sigmund Freud
       • 1950's
       • Children grew personalities in early years
       • Discovered reasons that drive actions
       • Sigma's Theory
         • 1. Theory of Mind
         • 2. Theory Of Self
           • ID
           • EGO
           • SUPEREGO
       • Psychosexual Stages
         • Oral Stage
         • Anal Stage
         • Genital Stage
     • Psychosocial Stages
       • Erik Erickson
         • Parenting Practices
         • Reactions based on decisions
   • Behavioral and Social Learning Theory
     • Classical Conditioning and Emotional Response
       • Ivan Pavlov, Dog Salivation Experiment
         • Understaning Responses
       • Watson
         • Child experiment with own son and rat
     • Behavior Theories
       • Opperant Conditioning
         • Law of Effect
       • Skinner and Reinforcement
         • Positive negative reinforcement
     • Social Learning Theory
       • learning while watching others
       • Surroundings influence us
     • Cognitive Theory
       • Mental Processing change over time
       • Jean Piaget
         • Cognitive Stages
           • 1. Sensorimotor
           • 2. Preoperational
           • 3. Concrete
           • 4. Formal
       • Vygotsky
         • Everyone has potential for proximal Development