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True or False: During the Middle Ages, children were often treated as miniature adults.
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True; they were disciplined harshly and, once they reached the age of 7, were expected to work along side adults
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John Locke
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A child came into the world as a "Tabula Rasa" - a blank slate that is written on by experience.
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Jacques Rousseau
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Argued that children were innately good and that, if allowed to express their natural impulses, they will develop into generous and moral individuals.
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What was the definition of family during the industrial revolution?
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Family life came to be defined in terms of the nuclear unit of mother, father, and children rather than the extended family.
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20th century children
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In the 20th century, laws were passed to protect children from strenuous labor, to require that they attend school until a certain age, and to prevent them from getting married or being sexually exploited.
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Charles Darwin
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Was one of the first observers to keep a baby biography of his infant sons behavior.
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G. Stanley Hall
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Is credited with founding child development as an academic discipline. He adapted the questionnaire method for use with large groups of children. He also labeled adolescence as a time of "storm and stress".
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Alfred Binet
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Developed standardized intelligence tests in order to identify students in danger of falling behind their peers in academic achievement.
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John B. Watson
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The founder of american behaviorism, he generally agreed with Locke that children's ideas, preferences, and skills are shaped by experience. Watson believed in nurture.
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Behaviorism
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Developed by John B. Watson, it was his view that science must study observable behavior only and investigate relationships between stimuli and responses.
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Maturation
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The unfolding of genetically detained traits, structures and functions.
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Arnold Gesell
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Opposed the idea of behaviorism, with the idea of Biological Maturation, and focused primarily on physical aspects of growth and development.
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