History Developmental Psychology

History of Developmental Psychology

Antiquity - Greece / Italy

Birth = unpure so ceremony necessary If abnormal = abandonment or drowning - No rights Formal Education is important (boys)

Medieval Ages

No depiction in literature or art High infant mortality rate, child labor & extreme discipline Louis XIII + Jean Héroard (doctor) = 1st complete biography / observation 1601 - 1628 1689 - John Locke = EMPIRISM -Tabula Rasa (Blank Slate) Father of modern learning theory

XVIIIth - 1762

EDUCATION - Pedagogy J. J. Rousseau: child different than adult & use of psychology in education for learning to be more effective - Father of classical develommental psyc.

XIXth

1879 - Wilhelm Wundt : 1st Scientific research Laboratory in Leipzig, Germany1882 - Wilhelm Preyer : 'The Mind of the Child' child psychology evolution (observations + descriptions) motor, language, ...

1877 - Charles Darwin (scientist) Evolution Theory &'A biographical Sketch of an infant' 1st observations of Emotions (learned / innate) and theories/hypothesis

End XIXth - Early XXth

S. Hall = Created 'National Association for the Study of children' + 1st to investigate teenage life (concepts) = Infancy / Childhood / Adolescence / Adulthood

Early XXth - 1905

1905 - Binet = 1st intellectual evaluation (Binet - Simon test) with norms and deviances asked by Ministry of Public Education + Pioneers (Montessori, Freud...)

1950s / 1960s

EXPLOSION of psychologists Wallon / Skinner / Erickson / Bowlby/ Winnicott / Vygotski... Piaget: 1st to consider babies worth studying

Today

Look at how / why postural / motor + intelligence + language + social + social/emotional or affective + genetics... = lifespan Help from technologies (neurosciences...)

Theories

Better understanding of typical dvelopment, need to continue learning about variations (disabilities)