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

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?

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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