Theories: Nature v. Nurture

Jonathan Pickens

Today's Agenda

 

• Discuss content of online lecture
• Worksheet 2 Nature v. Nurture
• Time to discuss group presentation

Next Class

 

• Discuss Blog
• Lecture on Media literary
  • WS3: CRAAP
  • (Bring an article)

 

Next Week: No class

 

Following Week Blog:

• Bernard J Slawomirski
• Diana M Kennedy
• Israel A Tochimani
• Kevin J Mendez

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

Worksheet 2: Nature v. Nurture

Hair and Eye Color Weight or build Intelligence Gender

Height

Career Interests and Goals

Spirituality/Religion

Sexuality

Personality

Hobbies

Acquiring 1st Language

Acquiring 2nd+ Languages