Development- History and Influences

09/05

Jonathan Pickens

Today's Agenda

• Review Yesterday & Danziger
• Origin myths (pre-history)
• Worksheet 1 What is your theory?
• Discuss content of online lecture
• Assign Blog days and project groups

Next Week's Agenda

• NO CLASS on Monday, happy new yearses
• Discuss Blog
• Review of Chapter 2 video lecture
• Nature v. Nurture Blog discussion
• Worksheet 2

VS

Yesterday

• "Truths" of Human Nature
• Trajectory of History
• Unification Principal
• History of Psychology Politics
• Impact of ideas (on us, society, ideas themselves)

• How about the impact of ideas on how we explaining/understand development?

Shared development: origin stories

What does the narrator believe? What is the unification principal?

Why Human Development?

Your

Worksheet 1: What is Your Theory of Human Development?

Whether we are conscious of it or not, we live our daily lives using some type of “theory” development. Try to describe your current theory (or theories) of development.

Think about the following questions, and answer them within your response. Please write at least two paragraphs.

• What causes humans to become the people that they become?

• What do you think are the most important factors that influence development?

• What causes us to change?

• What causes us to remain the same?

Reviewing Ch 1

• Types of influences
• Coninuous v Discontinuous

Early History

• Darwin
• G Stanley Hall
• Binet & Simon

Mid-20th century

Psychoanalytic

• Freud
• Erik Erikson

Mid-20th century

Behaviorism

• Pavlov
• Skinner

Mid-20th century

Behaviorism

• Pavlov
• Skinner
• Bandura

Mid-20th century

Cognition

• Piaget
• Vygotsky (sociocultural cognition)
• Siegler (Information Processing)

Ethology & Evolutionary Psych

• Theories and Morality:
  • Konrad Lorenz
• Tension: Culture/tech vs evolution
• Critical periods and instincts

Ecological Systems

Urie Bronfenbrenner

Post-modern critiques of science (esp Psych)

• Power and Knowledge
  • Foucault
• Subjectivity v. objectivity
  • post-structuralists e.g. Derrida

Blog and Project Assignments

 Happy Holidays, See you Next Week

Watch the video lecture

Read the assigned article