theories of human development

• The Nature Of Scientific Theory

  PARSIMONIOUS

  HEURETICS

  FALSIFIABLE
• Six Broad Theoretical Traditions

  Psychoanalytic Viewpoint

  Learning Viewpoint

  Cognitive-developmental Viewpoint

  Information-processing Viewpoint

  Evolutionary Viewpoint

  Ecological Systems Viewpoint
• Classical Ethology

  bioevolutionary basis of behavior and development with a focus on

  survival of the individual.
• Charles Darwin - Natural Selection
• John Bowlby - children display a wide variety of preprogrammed

  behaviors.
• Modern Evolutionary Theory

  bioevolutionary basis of behavior and development with a focus on

  survival of the genes .