What is Development?
Are children
1. Inherently bad and selfish (Freud)
2. Neither good nor bad (Locke)
3. Many positive qualities (Rousseau, Piaget)
Are People?
1. Active in determining their development (organismic approach)
2. Passive recipients of other influences (Mechanistic Approach) (environmental and biological factors)
What is Scientific Thoery?
What makes a ‘good’ scientific theory?
1. Does the theory reflect the real world (Face validity)?
2. Is the theory supported by convincing evidence?
3. Does the theory explain the past and predict future outcomes?
4. Does the theory handle new data and new discoveries
5. Does the theory stimulate new research and new discoveries?
6. Is the theory clearly understandable?
7. Is the theory self-satisfying? (Does it move you? Aesthetics)
Caveat: Theories can bias our outlooks. A theory is a lot like a camera – it denies everything in existence which is outside the frame.
Course Outline
1. Frued’s psychodynamic theory
2. Erksons Psycho-social theoery
3. Balby and Ainsworth’s Attachment theory
4. Bandura’s Social Learning Theory (observation)
5. Piaget’s Cognitive Developmental theory
6. Vygotsky’s Cognitive Mediation theory (Social Constructs)
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