Developing Individuals in Society

Developing Individuals In Society Revision

Development 

- If someone is changing over time their development is discontinuous. 

- Children can be classed as mini adults who know less and have continuous development.

- "Human development is the most complex phenomenon in the universe"  - Charlesworth (1992)

- Development is concerned with changes over time. 

Theories Of Development 

- Constructivism - children construct their own knowledge. 

-Psychoanalytic -The upbringing of a child determines their developmental process.

-Behaviourism - children shape their environment and learn through reinforcement and punishment. 

Tools Of Development 

 - The mind is like a black box - we can't see in it but we can see the input and output. 

-When studying children it can be difficult to get accurate responses from them so we can use:

> Habituation 

>Violation Of Expectation 

> Preferential Looking 

-When we conduct research we want

>Reliability 

>Validity 

>generality 

>Correlation 

>Cause and Effect 

Theory Of Mind 

- This is when we can predict what other people are thinking. 

- It is tested by a false belief test. 

-The deceptive box test can test an individuals own false belief.

-We usually use the Sally Ann test.

-5 year olds are able to adapt to others believes, but younger children struggle. 

Imagination

- There appear to be rules in make belief that all children follow, the story they tell could represent their own mind. 

- Gendler came up with the terms: alief and belief. 

> Alief - this is our own perception of something and can stop us doing things.

> Belief - this is an explicit belief of…