Describe the history of child development
What will be an ideal response?
There have been differing views of children throughout history. Early views considered
children to be evil and in need of harsh and persistent discipline. Other views looked
upon children as miniature adults who simply needed to grow. Advocates of this view,
of course, would support putting children to work as soon as they were "big enough" to
do the work. Others looked at childhood as a time of goodness or even "blankness,"
making the child ready to experience the world and become whatever the environment
destined the child to become. John Locke, for example, believed that children were
born a "tabula rasa" or clean slate. They were not born with inborn predispositions.
This meant they were born ready to become anything. If the environment and their
caregiving were positive, they would become positive adults and do important things. If
the environment and their caregiving were negative, they were destined to wither and
be less productive adults. This idea, of course, can be seen in statements of behavioral
psychologists such as John Watson.
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What will be an ideal response?
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A. serotonin B. dopamine C. cortisol D. GABA
Which of the two following types of diagnoses are combined when a psychiatric patient receives a dual diagnosis?
a. Any two distinctly different mental disorders b. Major depression and any psychotic disorder c. Any mental disorder and any physiological disorder d. Any mental disorder and substance abuse